Friday, 10 December 2010

My Collective Identity Research

I have chosen to study the collective social identity of Gamers; people who spend alot of their time playing video games.



Dictionary definition:


"one devoted to playing video or computer games"

gam·er

–noun
a person who plays games

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Past Exam Questions on Collective Identity

  • How do the contempory media represent nations, regions, and ethnic / social / collective groups in different ways?
  • What does contempory representation compare to previous time periods?
    (eg:  folk, devils & moral panics)
  • What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
  • To what extent is human identity increasing mediated?
         - across two types of media


"Only a fool wouldn't judge by appearances" - Oscar Wilde