Darija+Jovanovic

Week 2: Lab Assignment
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Can Video Games be considered another new mass media? ** Mass media is the idea that information reaches a large group of people. Today video games are sold across the country usually at high prices, and yet people still buy them. Due to today’s technologies new versions of video games and video game players are constantly being introduced and people are constantly buying sending the message that video games are a hit and they can be used to send out messages. And because video games today are becoming a large part of people`s lives the idea of mass media does apply, this is shown through the idea that a certain message is given in a video game, and because a large number of people are exposed to this message, the message is massively produced and therefore massively seen. The difference between the conventional way that movies and music are exposed to the audience compared to video games, is that video games have more of a hand on approach to the situation. Meaning that if it is a fighting game, the person is understanding the message by doing what needs to be done, while in movies and music the message is mainly seen, and the audience has no actual participation. Also, video games reach a large audience but possibly not as large as a music video or movie might. Video games are catching on because in today’s world people love convenience in the sense that things fit into their life, rather than them trying to work around the media itself. In this sense people can play a video game when they choose, whatever game they choose and with whomever they choose. So because society is in constant need of entertainment they find the most convenient way and in today’s society it’s slowly and more commonly video games.
 * What makes Video Games a different medium from conventional movies and music? **
 * Why are video games catching on? **

**Lab: Week 3**
 * Why are new genres created? **

Genres are created to help keep up with today’s constantly changing society. Genres constantly change to adapt to the ways people today function and to follow today’s norms, so in order to do this they must adapt to today’s way of life. Genres are created to categories people into groups which follow similar patters or those who do similar things, and since today’s society is constantly changing and the way we do things is changing then new genres must constantly be created to keep up with today’s fast changing society.


 * Why is the definition of genre controversial and not so applicable to the formation of digital genres? **

It is very difficult to explain genre, in this sense it is also very difficult to explain genre in a simple definition. There are no set characteristics as to what a certain movie genre should have, therefore there is not just one definition as to what a romance movie should have, but rather many genres within the genre itself helping to explain that particular genre., therefore creating a controversy. But unlike the internet today’s society it is possible to write a certain set of rules for a genre for people to follow, yet on the internet even though people do follow certain patterns on a personal web page, they tend to constantly change their personal pages and improve them for the better making it a lot different then in today’s society. The constantly changing digital community allows for millions and millions of people to create changes digital within days or maybe even hours, when creating a web page, yet in today’s society on paper change takes a lot longer.