Many people have either seen, heard, or currently
play the game 4 Pics 1 word. Just as the name connotes, this game portrays four
images that represent a single word. While playing this game, I began to notice
that each picture that contained a person was white; there were no colored
people within this game.
What
are we suggesting when African-Americans are not included in these images?
A
word functions as a principal carrier of meaning. As such, does this game imply
African-Americans do not hold enough "substance" to represent that
word?
Continuing on, in class we discussed how popular T.V. shows choose to
have a majority white cast in order to please the overwhelming white audience.
For this reason, is this game choosing to do the same, exclude people of color
as to please the white users? Would this game still be as popular id
African-Americans were in the pictures?
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