Media Clips for the ‘Media Violence, Moral Panics & Videogames’ Lecture

Here are the full versions of the clip’s used in this week’s lecture. The full Daily Show clip focusing in video-game violence and Congressional hearings in the US:

(The Videogames bit of The Daily Show starts at 1:30 into the clip.) The Coca-Cola advertisement based on Grand Theft Auto:

Coffee-flavoured representations?

For this week’s tutorials you’re asked to create a representation of coffee in any medium you like.  When I was in Florence a few months ago with my lovely wife on our honeymoon, one of the little pleasures was the fantastic coffee we found.  Here’s one shot which illustrates the joy of proper Italian coffee being savoured in Florence:

This might also be a good time to mention that another thing you could do with your iPods is upload photos and other images and create slideshows.  You simply pop your images in a particular directory, tell iTunes where that directory is, and it’ll create a slideshow for you.  For more details instructions, click here and here.

If, on the other hand, you prefer your coffee representations a lot sillier, this Folger’s coffee advertisement is one of the more creative (and catchier) efforts I’ve seen in a long time:

Be warned, though, you’ll find yourself humming the tune if you watch that video!