Thursday, December 9, 2010

Question 5

1) Discuss the following Flash game in terms of ideology and hegemony. Define each term, and then explain them through the game (100-150 words).

http://gamescene.com/The_Urinal_Game.html

Ideology is basically the ideas held by the Dominant. Our “common sense” is ideology. Hegemony is the system that introduces ideology. For example, a person’s family (hegemony) might ingrain the idea of “proper manners” (ideology) into he/she. The game’s basic rules per level are the ideology. This urinal etiquette is supposed to be common sense; however, there are no actual rules to using urinals in real life. The game itself is hegemony because it acts as a vehicle supporting and pushing this ideology. Through hegemony, American men consider bathroom etiquette to be “common sense,” although men from other cultures might have completely different ideas of what is proper or not.

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