Alright, perhaps its' just work block (read: procrastination), but in 1 week I have to give three presentations. They're all freeform, and I've decided to go with a unique twist this year; I'm doing every single one of them on video games.
The three classes are:
Psychology of Leadership; for which I am doing how leadership is presented in the entertainment industry's fastest growing medium,
Problems of Modern Society; where I doing a presentation about censorship, and how new forms of media; particularly video games are in danger from ever more hostile censorship laws
and
World Lit.; where I'm going for the low-hanging fruit of "How world literature is the biggest influence on video games and their stories".
The presentation for World Lit. is basically done; a topic that easy practically writes itself.
As for the other two, I'm almost there, but I'm just short. I've got the outlines and what I want to do, but I'm not if I'm making the point just right, or if I'm missing something important.
For Psych. of LDRSHIP I am using three game series in particular; Mass Effect, Gears of War, Final Fantasy and a few other games. I plan to examine how they illustrate levels of leadership (Gears) in organizations, diversity in leadership (Final Fantasy, various) and placing players in positions of leadership (Mass Effect). I also plan to use them illustrate the industry's bias in displaying leadership (Mass Effect, Final Fantasy). This one I'm a little bit more sure about, but with as much research as I've done, I'm not sure if there isn't something interesting out there I've missed that I could use that you could point out for me.
But for my Society class, I'm at a bit more of a stumbling block. While I have the basic idea down, I'm having problems pushing home the point. Pointing out censorship in countries like China and Korea and Turkey is easy; its driving home the point about it occuring in even in Western nations like Autralia and America thats the issue. Sure Thompson, Atkinson and California vs. EMA, but it seems empty, since most of them have come up short. Maybe what I'm looking I'm looking for here is things from other countries that wouldn't make themselve readily noticable to me while looking online.
And don't worry; these were both fairly open-ended projects, with students allowed to work in groups and use basically any reliable resource they could find, so this isn't cheating.
The three classes are:
Psychology of Leadership; for which I am doing how leadership is presented in the entertainment industry's fastest growing medium,
Problems of Modern Society; where I doing a presentation about censorship, and how new forms of media; particularly video games are in danger from ever more hostile censorship laws
and
World Lit.; where I'm going for the low-hanging fruit of "How world literature is the biggest influence on video games and their stories".
The presentation for World Lit. is basically done; a topic that easy practically writes itself.
As for the other two, I'm almost there, but I'm just short. I've got the outlines and what I want to do, but I'm not if I'm making the point just right, or if I'm missing something important.
For Psych. of LDRSHIP I am using three game series in particular; Mass Effect, Gears of War, Final Fantasy and a few other games. I plan to examine how they illustrate levels of leadership (Gears) in organizations, diversity in leadership (Final Fantasy, various) and placing players in positions of leadership (Mass Effect). I also plan to use them illustrate the industry's bias in displaying leadership (Mass Effect, Final Fantasy). This one I'm a little bit more sure about, but with as much research as I've done, I'm not sure if there isn't something interesting out there I've missed that I could use that you could point out for me.
But for my Society class, I'm at a bit more of a stumbling block. While I have the basic idea down, I'm having problems pushing home the point. Pointing out censorship in countries like China and Korea and Turkey is easy; its driving home the point about it occuring in even in Western nations like Autralia and America thats the issue. Sure Thompson, Atkinson and California vs. EMA, but it seems empty, since most of them have come up short. Maybe what I'm looking I'm looking for here is things from other countries that wouldn't make themselve readily noticable to me while looking online.
And don't worry; these were both fairly open-ended projects, with students allowed to work in groups and use basically any reliable resource they could find, so this isn't cheating.
