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1) Henry Jenkins  - fandom and participatory culture  2) Sims Freeplay - language and representation   3) Sims Freeplay - audience and industries  4)  Learner response: OSP assessment  5)  Women in video games and further feminist theory 6) Horizon Forbidden West - language and representation   7)  Horizon Forbidden West - Audience and industries 

Audience Look at  this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience  and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles?  % of male players for PlayStation5: 68% % of female players for PlayStation5: 29% % of male players for Xbox series X/S: 68% % of female players for Xbox series X/S: 32% 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? Hardcore gamers - those who say they take videogames seriously or play competitively, they mostly play on PlayStation or Xbox  Casual gamers - those that like videogames but are not one of their top interests, they mostly play on PCs  I think it is more of hardcore gamers as the game has a complex story and it is a sequel to a previous game, something that casual gamers would not largely keep up with 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play...

  Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  It was a harassment campaign that included all women working in the video game development and gaming press, as well as the industry's LQBTQ+ community    2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  A group with more than 200,000 followers on PC games storefront Steam, as well as thousands in a Discord chat channel, believes that Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology.  3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into video games, it is happening naturally as the gamers and game developers themselves diversify. And Gameragte didn't intimidate omen out f vide games then and women still will not...