Project Proposal

I would like to do my new media studies project on the videogame industry. I will focus on the increasingly growing culture surrounding games, specifically the large segment of the Internet focused on gaming – news, reviews, and most importantly, discussion forums in which gamers yell, fight, and talk amongst themselves, arguably more than they actually play the games they’re discussing. To a lesser extent, I will focus on the penetration of gaming in popular culture but my main effort will be to address the communities of gamers on the Internet, and how these fans play an extremely big role in advancing the industry.