Videogames
Explore the ways in which audiences can use and take pleasure from video games. Make explicit reference to Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
- Uses and gratification
- Sexual gratification -female protagonist - however no sexualised
- Identification with a strong female character with a character arc
- AAA production values
- Major label - 600,000 copies sold
- PS Vita - 2012 - portability and immersion
- Production of fan materials - Henry Jenkins, fan theory - My Little Pony mashup. Provides audiences with the ability to combine two things that they love through intertextuality
- Gauntlet's theory of identity: allows audiences to express and develop their identity through media products
- Challenge - slogan to Dark Souls - Prepare To Die
- Social interaction
- Tournaments
- Speedruns, streamed on sites like Twitch
- Escapism - murder, steal, and infiltrate
- Pleasure of nostalgia, history and accurate architecture - edutainment
- Information: knowledge of history
- Customisation of characters: a range of weapons, including downloadable content (DLC)
- Enigmatic and mysterious trailer campaign for Death Stranding invites audiences to research the producer, to hang out on fan forums
- Trailer for ACL resembles a high budget Hollywood blockbuster, with intertextual references to 12 years a slave, Django Unchained ETC
Other case studies???
Death Stranding, The Silver Case: The 25th Ward, Fallout IV, Dark Souls III, Goat Simulator...
Radio
Explore how recent technological changes have shaped Late Night Women's Hour
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Explore how emergent digital technologies have shaped Late Night Women's Hour
- Digital technology refers to any technology that utilises a computer. Digital media allows for ease of access, portability, distribution. LNWH is streamed through BBC Sounds, a digital subsidiary of the BBC, providing audiences with a pleasurable and easy to navigate interface.
- Visual aspect: cute graphic thumbnail of Laverne
- Narrowcasting: appeals to a specific audience: middle class white women, older/middle aged, heterosexual
- Twitter and other social networks: an interactive platform to talk directly to listeners: hashtag late night women's hour
- To inform, to educate, to entertain: The BBC is fundamentally a public broadcasting service, and are paid for by the TV licence - therefore a range of different segments, targeting both a mainstream and a niche audience
- 2016 Buzzword of hygge - a trend popular with middle class middle aged women
- "your favourite mug"
- ...an anecdote regarding only having access to "20 books" draws a collective gasp, again suggesting the value of books to the middle-class audience
- Threat from streaming services such as Netflix
- Show has a cult audience: Laverne referred to the spice girls as "Tory scum". Presenter is iconic. Easily recognisable. Geordie accent, connotations of being working class and relatable