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Why Game?
- Unlike most media,Interactive Media puts viewer in both the receiving and the creating end, thus "Interactive".
- 100 billion dollar industry
- Youth development and mass psychology
- Most popular form of media on Youtube
(prof. Wanda Gregory, prof. Robertson Allen)
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Future Interest/Research
- Interactive Media as a cultural phenomenon
Internal Discourses
Interactive Media as a Cultural Phenomenom
- Hegemonic Masculinity/Over-sexualized femininity(Gender misrepresentation)
- Militarization (prof. Robertson Allen)
- Competetive Gaming/Esports
- Digital Labor, Virtual Property
- Irrelevancy as a form of media
- Criminalization from mass media