1. Visual Culure

2. Major Themes/Debates of Visual Culture Journal of Visual Culture http://vcu.sagepub.com/reports/mfr1.dtl Can access articles through the library Concerns about an abstracted, non-materialist analysis of the image (art history) Debates about the visual vs the verbal, is it all language? (English) Is visual culture a discipline or interdiscipline? The “iconic” or “pictoral” turn – phenomenology of the image, representation vs presentation

3. Chinese Gold Farmers world of warcraft - bbc gold farming Nakamura, Lisa. Unpublished paper. “‘I Bet Half of these People are Koreans’: Fan-Produced World of Warcraft Machinima and the Domestication of Asian Labor in Multiplayer Online Games.” Console-ing Passions Conference, April 2008.

4. Questions How does the visual representation of Chinese workers frame the story being told? How does the visual representation of World of Warcraft frame the story? How does the visual representation of the Western gamers frame the story? How do these visual representations leave out other kinds of representations (global capital? Trade agreements?)