CSP - The Sims FreePlay - Language + Representations
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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations blog tasks
Create a new blogpost called 'The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations' and complete the following tasks.
1) What elements of gameplay are shown?
Language / Gameplay analysis
Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions:
1) What elements of gameplay are shown?
- Building
- Earning money
- Taking care of sims
2) What audience is the trailer targeting?
Teens and above
3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer?
- Diversion
- Personal relationships
- Personal identities
- Surveillance
Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions:
1) How is the game constructed?
- Building
- Earning money
- Taking care of sims
2) What audience is this game targeting?
Teens and above. Its aimed at both males and females but pushed towards females as it shows more outfit choices for them than males
3) What audience pleasures does the game provide?
- Diversion
- Personal relationships
- Personal identities
- Surveillance
4) How does the game encourage in-app purchases?
- Buying free play crystals to speed up time
- Adverts to gain free stuff
Representations
Re-watch some of the expansion pack trailers and answer the following questions:
1) How do the expansion pack (DLC) trailers reinforce or challenge dominant ideologies?
they copy real life
2) What stereotypes have you identified in The Sims FreePlay?
Girls are girly and boys are like boys
3) What media theories can you apply to representations in The Sims FreePlay?
Blumler + Katz uses and gratifications - personal identity
Representation reading
Read this Forbes article on gender and racism in The Sims franchise and answer the following questions:
1) How realistic does The Sims intend to be?
quite realistic but obviously you can distinguish it from reality
2) How has The Sims tried to create more realistic representations of ethnicity?
cultural clothing, religious clothing
3) How has The Sims responded to racism and sexism in society?
they created characters of all diversities
4) What is The Sims perspective on gender fluidity and identity?
they support it
5) How does The Sims reinforce the dominant capitalist ideologies of American culture?
they sell things for money so they earn money
1) How do the expansion pack (DLC) trailers reinforce or challenge dominant ideologies?
they copy real life
2) What stereotypes have you identified in The Sims FreePlay?
Girls are girly and boys are like boys
3) What media theories can you apply to representations in The Sims FreePlay?
Blumler + Katz uses and gratifications - personal identity
Representation reading
Read this Forbes article on gender and racism in The Sims franchise and answer the following questions:
1) How realistic does The Sims intend to be?
quite realistic but obviously you can distinguish it from reality
2) How has The Sims tried to create more realistic representations of ethnicity?
cultural clothing, religious clothing
3) How has The Sims responded to racism and sexism in society?
they created characters of all diversities
4) What is The Sims perspective on gender fluidity and identity?
they support it
5) How does The Sims reinforce the dominant capitalist ideologies of American culture?
they sell things for money so they earn money
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