13C - Critical Investigation Proposal Form

A reminder to 13C that you need to complete your Critical Investigation Proposal Form by next Tuesday. As promised, here's an example to show what you need to include (the research texts are simply a starting point - you'll need plenty more when your proposal is approved).


Year 13 Critical Investigation proposal form

Working title
The media battleground: Why are video games such as 'Call of Duty' and 'Grand Theft Auto’ becoming more violent?

Angle
What impact are these increasingly violent games having on their audience? Is this simply a moral panic of the 21st century or is further regulation required?

Linked production piece
Newsnight-style documentary video report looking at the impact of violent videogames on young people.

Research plan (media texts and academic texts)

Media texts
Call of Duty
Grand Theft Auto

TV documentaries
BBC One - Panorama, Addicted to Games? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlmj0

Academic texts
Barrie Gunter: The effects of video games on children: the myth unmasked (1998)
James Newman: Playing with videogames (2008)
Nancy Signorielli: Violence in the media: a reference handbook (2005)
Peter Vorderer, and Bryant Jennings: Playing video games: motives, responses, and consequences (2006)

This is just a starting point but will hopefully be useful. There is also a superb archive of previous top-grade Critical Investigations available on this blog so take advantage of those.