HKBU - Academy of Visual Arts, general education, videogames and arts, class 11 - social issues of videogames.

1. GDCV1845/GDSS1845 – Videogames and arts
Class 11
Social impacts of videogames

2. Class 11
Schedule
Historical account
Issues
Violence
Gender
Addiction

3. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957

4. Crash, J.G. Ballard, 1973

5. Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996

6. Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996

7. Road Movie

8. Dead Race 2000 – Paul Bartel, 1975

9. Death Race, 1976

10. Death Race, 1976

11. Death Race, 1976
The game triggered outrage not only because it was
violent, but because it depicted violence which
questioned the state’s monopoly on legitimized violence
and did not follow culturally accepted narratives of
violence, such as military or police violence, or the
western.
The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race
Carly A. Kocurek

12. Death Race, 1976
We were really unhappy with that game. We (Atari) had
an internal rule that we wouldn’t allow violence against
people. You could blow up a tank or you could blow up a
flying saucer, but you couldn’t blow up people. We felt
that that was not good form, and we adhered to that all
during my tenure.
Nolan Bushnell, Atari founder

13. LA Riots, 1992

14. Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, 1994

15. Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone, 1994

16. Carmageddon, 1997

17. Grand Theft Auto, 1997-2013

18. Grand Theft Auto, 2003
Two teenagers – William and Joshua Buckner, 16 and
14 years old, respectively – opened fire on vehicles on
the Interstate 40 highway in Tennessee with a 0.22
calibre rifle, killing one person and injuring another
severely.
They told the police who arrested them that they were
bored, and decided to mimic their favorite videogame,
Grand Theft Auto.
The Register UK

19. Columbine high school, 1999

20. Elephant, Gus Van Sant, 2003

21. Call of Duty

22. Halo

23. Red Dead Redemption

24. Assassin’s Creed

25. Violence
Any legitimate violence?

26. Violence in videogames

27. Glorious Mission

28. News on Glorious Mission

29. Custer Revenge 1982

30. RapeLay 2006

31. Gender and videogames

32. Robbie Cooper

33. Robbie Cooper – Immersion

34. Robbie Cooper – Alter Ego

35. Videogames addiction

36. Addiction
He cuts himself off from the world, in exile from reality,
far from objective reality and the real life of the city and
the community; … it makes one lose any sense of true
reality. In the end, it is always, I think, under this charge
that the interdiction is declared. We do not object to the
user’s pleasure per se, but to a pleasure taken in an
experience without truth…
Derrida (1995)

37. Videogames in Hong Kong