This is a clip from the South Park episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" when the characters use their avatars to first go inside the game of World of Warcraft. I think that this clip is very relevant to our class discussion today about choosing your own avatar and how it relates to one's sense of self. Additionally, this clip is an example of Murphy's idea of Media Convergence.
This episode is an example of different forms of media converging as the makers of South Park and Blizzard Entertainment were able to combine the media of television and video games in order to create a new medium. The medium of television plays on the medium of video games by literally incorporating real game footage into the episode.
Therefore, this episode of South Park is a good example of how avatars play into gaming culture and how new media remediates older media as well.
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