Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Question 5

Ideology as a whole is the study of ideas. In terms of Cultural studies it is the study of common sense.

Hegemony- A dominant culture spreading its ideologies to smaller groups and nondominant cultures. This dominant spread can include ideologies, culture, politics, or any other facet of the dominant.

This game is based on ideologies. The “common sense” of male bathroom etiquette is the specific ideology it constructs. All men are supposed to know these unspoken rules of the bathroom. These rules range form the appropriateness of talking to, as this game shows, the proper urinal selection. The game constructs, essentially writes, the rules of the later example. By constructing these ideals the game makes a dominant hegemonic definition of the rules. By making this game the creators spoke the unspoken rules and defined them. Through the game they force those rules into common knowledge.

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