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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Exploration Five: Hannah Belden
In my active reading of chapter five, I really liked reading the different reviews of things. I didn't actually realize that they were an "academic form" (page 58). I think this is something that struck out to me because the review of a video game is just as valid as a book review or an art review. For example, looking at the review of GTA, the video game, I was surprised that something classified as entertaining could be written from an academic perspective. One question I did have about this review was the question of ethics. In the description, it said that the author of this review "side stepped the ethics" of a game like this (page 169). So this leads me to the question, should you put ethics into a review, or focus solely on the thing at hand and not one's morality? Again, I thought this was a very interesting chapter because reviews are something that we actually come across in our everyday lives.
I use reviews everyday in my own life, for everything whether it be food, makeup, etc. I think one of the biggest ways I used reviews was when looking for colleges to attend. There are websites like "niche" that give different schools different ratings on different aspects, and why. Of course, I didn't decide on a school solely based on a review but it did help me decide on which schools I wanted to go visit, and add to the list of potential candidates. If I found a school with no positive reviews, I pretty much would dismiss it as something that I shouldn't put my time and energy into exploring further. When looking into Ohio State, though, I found an abundance of positive reviews and I knew that this was definitely a school I would want to invest my time in going to visit and applying to. OSU wasn't the only school I did this with, but I did cut out some other schools based on very, very bad reviews and the values that these schools had that I did not.
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I was also surprised that a review of GTA could be written in an academic perspective. I think you could put ethics in a review if you really wanted to as long as you don't make it offensive to any reader, which would be very difficult so I probably wouldn't recommend it. I used reviews to help pick out what college I wanted to attend as well. I think it's cool how reading reviews led us both to OSU!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cheyenne, You certainly could speak of ethics over the game, but not without going against or for a specific view point, so its a touchy subject to cover. While you should not listen to and decide to do something solely based on reviews, I think that it gives a certain impression for the product or service and kind of acts like advice from someone with experience.
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