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Medium article: Is Female Representation in Video Games Finally Changing? Read  this Medium feature on whether female representation in videogames is finally changing . Answer the following questions: 1) How have women traditionally been represented in videogames? women have been represented to be the  “damsels in distress” or and object as a male has to save them e.g. princess peach. 2) What percentage of the video game audience is female?   42% of the video game demographic is of a female audience. 3) What recent games have signalled a change in the industry and what qualities do the female protagonists offer?   T he recent games which have encountered a change are  Tomb Raider, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us, Dragon Age: Inquisition,  and  The Walking Dead  series 4) Do you agree with the idea that audiences reject media products if they feel they are misrepresented within them? i agree to this statement as females are objectified in the media e
1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? The site has many key conventions of a typical site and has similarities to Teen Vogue such as a banner, quick links, social media short-cuts, main images, side stories and more. 2) How does the page design differ from Teen Vogue? It doesn't include the moderate structure that the Teen Vogue site highlights. The site likewise includes a more extensivecolours for all the diverse segments of the site.  3) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values, and ideologies of the Voice? This tells us that the with the sport being the first that is shown it can be that it may just have the most amount of viewers due to it being such a popular category. The next category is an opinion which is due to the voice being a very vocal site hence the name of the site. 4) Look at the news stories in the Voice. To what extent does the selection of n
1)  OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2)  OSP: Teen Vogue - background and textual analysis 3)  OSP: Teen Vogue - audience and representation 4)  Newspapers: Assessment learner response 5)  OSP: Teen Vogue - industry and social media 6)  OSP: Hall and Gilroy - media theory 7)  OSP: The Voice - blog case study