Task 3 - Essay Proposal

"Video Gaming and it's effects on young children - is it having an effect on the reshaping of modern day society?"

• Start with an introduction as to the meaning of gaming and it's social effects of the media on children. 

• Argue that games such as Call of Duty and such like are desensitising children and also bringing about the possibility of increasing violent behaviours in society. 

• Begin to look at suture and narcissistic identity
  References -  Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual
  Culture. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R. 1990-1994. New
  York, Routledge, pp.363-384.

• Then argue that cyberculture is reshaping cultural form and behaviour.
  References - Baudrillard, J. (1976) Simulacra and Simulations: the Body in Theory. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan
  Press.
  The Cybercultures Reader, London, Routledge. (306.24)
  Gibson, W (1984)
  Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man. London, Routledge. (302.23)
  Scott, R. (1982)
  
• Conclusion