The essay I will be using to develop through scholarly research is “Gender-divided Video Games and the Nature of the Medium,” which is my second paper. I chose to focus on this paper in particular because I feel like the topic of video games has gained extra, recent attention than the topic of advertising. Also, I found this paper to be more of an interest to myself than the first; therefore, I believe I will be motivated to elaborate on the information already used throughout my essay while updating the information and providing viewpoints from sources, other than the two used in the first draft. Another reason behind choosing my second essay is that I had a difficult time finding sources relating to the topic of my first essay, which was the conflict of ESPN’s creation of a magazine issue of which focused on nudity. Finding scholarly research on the topic of video games and their ways of creating stereotypes, I assume, will be a benefit to my paper as I use my newly found sources to gain a clear sense of the scholarly conversation of my issue. Also, I believe that the addition of my new sources and their insights on my topic will gain further interest of an academic audience rather than my first topic from my first essay.
