Video Games and Culture - AHC3916

Assessment 1: Written assignment (coursework)

Students will be required to complete short weekly ‘gaming logs’ and present their findings in seminars. These logs will serve as the backbone for the narrated video essay.

Written Assignment

Assessment 2: Project Work

An individual narrated video essay, containing analysis of gaming themes and theories, drawing on ‘Let’s Play’ style videos and other game capture content.

Project Work

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

<p>This module examines video games in culture and video games as culture. It will allow you to explore key approaches and debates in video gaming analysis, while placing video games into their historical, social and economic contexts. You will examine key theories in game studies, including narratology and ludology; debates about play, immersion and flow; the cultures and sub-cultures of gamers and players, including age, race and gender; and the media industries that produce video games. By the end of the module you will be able to analyse video games utilising a variety of theories, and will understand the social and cultural meaning of games.</p>

School of Arts and Humanities

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Media, Journalism and Film

AHC3916 - Video Games and Culture

Video Games and Culture

be able to critically appraise key approaches, major thinkers and debates in relation to video games and play.

be able to critically evaluate video games in their historical, social, technological and political-economic contexts.

be able to demonstrate effective command and application of critical terminology in relation to gaming cultures, both in academic and journalistic contexts.

be able to achieve coherence in interpretative and analytical skills when critically assessing games.

be able to produce work that uses the effective manipulation of sound and images, utilising the conventions of narrated gameplay videos.