Gollum’s MTV Awards Appearance

 The clip from Tama’s ‘Communication of Special Effects’ lecture featuring Gollum at the 2003 MTV Awards:

The Social Effects of Media Violence Tutorial Task

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech Shootings in which 32 people were killed by a lone gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, 21-year old Sydney man, Ryan Lambourn, sparked outrage by creating a game based on the massacre. This week, you’re asked to take a look at the game for yourself, here: http://googumproduce.com/flash/vtech_riaa.swf. How do you respond? Is this game unethical? Also, take a look at the various media responses to Lambourn’s game here: http://googumproduce.com/vtechresponse.php (keep in mind these clips have been collected by Lambourn on one of his web pages). What do these responses say about how the relationship between games and violence is currently portrayed in the mainstream media?

For a little more background on Lambourn’s game and its impact, click here. For tutorials, make sure you’ve at least looked at Lambourn’s game and have thought about your response to it.