women in videogames

 Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate


Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on. Answer the following questions:

1) What was Gamergate? 
Protest against against unethical video game journalism it was a significant turning point on conversations about gender 

2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc? 


Critics, including some former Gamergate supporters, accuse the studio of promoting a “woke agenda” in gaming, showcasing the persistent resistance within certain gaming communities to increased diversity and inclusion.


3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames?
The industry still struggles with creative inclusion.

Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet

Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or here using your Greenford Google login. Find Media Factsheet #169 Further Feminist Theory, read the whole of the Factsheet and answer the following questions:
1) What definitions are offered by the factsheet for ‘feminism ‘and ‘patriarchy’?


Feminism: A belief in and advocacy for gender equality, particularly through the dismantling of structures and attitudes that perpetuate inequality.

Patriarchy: A social system in which men hold primary power and

power dominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control over property and social privilege



2) Why did bell hooks publish her 1984 book ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’?

To address the limitations of mainstream feminism.

3) What aspects of feminism and oppression are the focus for a lot of bell hooks’s work?

She focuses on intersectionality , race ,class and gender.

4) What is intersectionality and what does hooks argue regarding this?


5) What did Liesbet van Zoonen conclude regarding the relationship between gender roles and the mass media?


6) Liesbet van Zoonen sees gender as socially constructed. What does this mean and which other media theorist we have studied does this link to?


7) How do feminists view women’s lifestyle magazines in different ways? Which view do you agree with?


8) In looking at the history of the colours pink and blue, van Zoonen suggests ideas gender ideas can evolve over time. Which other media theorist we have studied argues things evolve over time and do you agree that gender roles are in a process of constant change? Can you suggest examples to support your view?


9) What are the five aspects van Zoonen suggests are significant in determining the influence of the media?



10) What other media theorist can be linked to van Zoonen’s readings of the media?


11) Van Zoonen discusses ‘transmission models of communication’. She suggests women are oppressed by the dominant culture and therefore take in representations that do not reflect their view of the world. What other theory and idea (that we have studied recently) can this be linked to?


12) Finally, van Zoonen has built on the work of bell hooks by exploring power and feminism. She suggests that power is not a binary male/female issue but reflects the “multiplicity of relations of subordination”. How does this link to bell hooks?

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