Internet/Web Reasearch - Call of duty.com

The second website that i am focusing on for my call of duty text is the official website itself for the whole game, the call of duty website in whole focuses on all of the call of duty franchise on both of the playstation platforms, playstation 2 and playstation 3.
The website includes insight into the latest call of duty game, 'Modern Warfare 3' which includes clips and information on the game and their own 'latest intel' which has discussions and a clip which goes behind the scenes of the new modern warfare multiplayer which contains 'Kill confirmed' and 'Team Defender' modes.
The call of duty website also contains mini sites and links of all the other previous call of duty games, by call of duty doing this they are not only looking at the latest call of duty game and ignoring the previous, they keep all of them so the public can go back to there favourite call of duty game out of the whole franchise.

The Official Call Of Duty Website 

These are the screenshots of the call of duty sites for each game:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 

Call of Duty 2 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 

Internet/web Reasearch - Infinity ward.com

One of the online sites that i am focusing on that contributes to my topic in terms of my Call of duty text is the online site of the developers of the game which is Infinity ward.
For Infinity ward they have only been producing Call of duty games such as the mordern warfare trilogy and world at war. The infinity ward website is a interactive website which allows the audience to get more out of the website and participate in whhat the website has to offer, e.g 'join the infinity ward community to get involved in every aspect of its development by connecting directly with the studio'.
As for each of my texts it is already clear that there is more to the game than just playing it and it is important that the public feels that they can get the best out of the game as possible, so its worth the money and the time also playing the game.

The infinity ward website broadens it self on the media platform in terms of twitter, facebook and myspace, by doing this, the audince can be kept informed with the latest news of the games that the company is developing.

Screenshot of Infinity Ward Website 

the screenshot above shows the official website of the developers of the call of duty franchise, on the homepage you can see that their main focus is of the call of duty franchise, and it also keeps the public up to date of the the latest news that surround these games, for example on the website you can see that they released the trailer for the new call of duty game, and has posted info on what contents the game has, from multiplayer to special ops.

Media Studies Mest 4 - Internet/Web Research

For the 3 part of our critical investigation i'll be doing a detailed study of into the online websites that contribute to my topic in terms of my critical investigation, this will include 'cross cultural' and 'wide-ranging'.

For my Call of Duty text the websites i will be looking at is;
Infinity ward.com
http://www.infinityward.com/

Call of duty.com
http://www.callofduty.com/

Activision.com
http://www.activision.com/atvihub/home.do?site=en_GB&country=UK

Treyarch.com
http://www.treyarch.com/

For my Grand Theft Auto text the websites i will be looking at is
Rockstar.com
http://www.rockstargames.com/

Rockstar.com/grandtheftauto
http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto/

gta4.net
http://www.gta4.net/multiplayer/

CI Clips - Call of duty

Feminism CI - Issues and debates that are raised

The issues and debates that is raised from the the thoery of feminism, is that in certain societies men have more of a dominance over women, one of the viewpoints and debates that surround the feminist theory in terms of my CI investigation is debate of sexual fantasy and the icons such as lara croft, that inspire the feminist gender in our generation of gaming.
What they say about the this pirticular area of this debate is that lara croft as example was made to be a tough, self-reliannt and intelligent women, she does confounds  all the sexual cliches apart from her extraordinary figure, the strong, independent girls are always the ideal fantasy girls, in the thoery and the way the media represents both of the stereotypical gender, women are seen more as the soft type, the type that stays at home, soft, probably likes to shop and the type that are dependent on their man, the reason why lara croftt is a perfect example to use for this and still keeping the concept of game in to the debates, lara croft defies all the conventional ideologies of the feminine gender, playing the game you will see that she works alone and that she takes on eniemies that are mostly male and usually overcomes them. This goes to show that women still has the power to be dominate and independent and stand on their own feet, and just because Call of duty is mainly a 'guys' game dosent mean that the game was mainly targeted at the male demographic.

As for Grand theft auto, it can be said abit differently, in the game there are women that are seen as strong and wel capable, and has order of few of the chararcters, so it kind of balanced on both sides, but most of the times it is the males that has the 'upper hand'.

CI Clips- Grand Theft Auto

Mest 4 Theory Research for CI - Feminism

For both of my chosen texts you could say that there is a lack of feminity, for these two games the gender demographic for both of these games are males, and the contents of the games reflects more a masculin ideology, especially for the Call of duty franchise, the way the public see this is that if a girl speaks of playing Call of duty, it would see most probably weird to boys, as they are mostly seen to be in the idea of guns, battle and blood.
For the grand theft auto franchise it is similar, but a percentage of the female public do tend to take an interest in Grand theft auto, mainly to the reason that grand theft auto is an open game, and it allows you to do an range of stuff in terms of social communication, e.g. shopping, dating, tourism.
We are all aware of the kinds of stereotypes that is reinforced by media representations, they look something like this

Feminity                                                               Masculinity
Caring                                                                   Tough
Nuturing                                                                Providing
Emotional                                                              Rational
Domestic- Home orentated                                    Public- Work orientated
Senstive                                                                Thick-skinned
Passive                                                                 Active
Gentle                                                                   Rough                                                              
Soft                                                                       Hard

Looking at these stereotypes the point that is being put across is that they still describe very similar versions of masculinity and feminity, and futhermore it is easy to se how these qualities are associated with power, political leadership, status and well paid jobs.

Parody Poster of Call of duty In terms of females