Thursday, October 23, 2008

Comm 105-perception

In chapter 12, it talks about perception of people.  Most perception is formed due to constructs of their culture and their experience.  Our book states that Meaning is not extracted from nature but projected  by people on it.  

It also states that our values and attributions are culture specific.  I was at work the other day and I was expecting this new release for the Playstation 3 to ship in so we could sell it to people.  It turns out that the video game had to be pulled and be scheduled for a later release.  The reason for this, which I researched, was that the video game contained a song of a featured artist which contained a couple of lines of the Quaran.  Someone wrote a letter saying that it was disrepectful to associate pop music with this particular religion.  Before you know it, they pulled the game and informed retailers that they will have to reschedule another release date.  

I know whoever wrote the letter obviously cared about his beliefs and was just trying to be respectful to them, but who, out of everyone who bought the game, would have cared or for that matter, be offended?  Or another question, who agrees with him and the result of the action.  Just to provide and argument, there are a lot of games that have a lot of mature content such as blood, gore, violence etc.  This game, was a game rated "E" because the content was suitable for anyone interested.  It's  a little interesting  because I would understand a game with aggressive violent content, would be a focus for re-evaluation on a release but....you know what I mean?

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