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The significance of the removal of the “White Mask” in Ayitian Vodou is to provide an Afrocentric analysis regarding the detriment of Catholicism/Protestantism has inflicted on African agency in Ayiti. The Practice of Ayitian Vodou derives from a variety of West African Spiritual Belief Systems like the Yoruba, Kongo, and Dahomean. During the imperialist era in Ayiti, Ayitians utilized biblical figures to hide their African gods in order to partake in Ayitian Vodou overtly. Due to classism, colorism, racism, and white domination, the camouflage aspect of Ayitian Vodou became a permanent component within Ayitian Vodou. This study proposes that scholars should rely on the method of Masking rather than the popular notion of Double Consciousness in examining African phenomena. W.E.B. Dubois coined Double Consciousness, which does not accurately explain or articulate how African people endured the institution of mental and physical enslavement. Double Consciousness derives from a Eurocentric ideology that operates from depriving African people of their history, culture, perspective, and personal development. / African American Studies

Deivisceris is a four-player role-playing tabletop game that focuses on themes of horror. It looks into ideas from the horror genre as a whole while combining aspects from the body horror and cosmic horror subgenres to create a discomforting horror experience. The game features illustrations and written events with a choice-based narrative that can have multiple outcomes depending on a player's decisions, stats, and items. Deivisceris utilizes randomness in order to create a new experience each time it is played through randomized characters and a randomized game board that is built up as it is played. The game reveals its narrative through clues within the gameplay, illustrations, and written text as characters enter the game's world blindly. Deivisceris is an immersive tabletop horror experience that can be further expanded on in the future with the possibility of a larger production. / Master of Fine Arts / Deivisceris is a four-player tabletop game that looks into the ways horror can be created in a board game format. It examines various ideas from the horror genre as a whole while taking inspiration more directly from two subgenres of horror: body horror and cosmic horror, each of which has very different ways of evoking horror. The game includes a variety of full-color illustrations and written situations that give players a chance to make their own decisions. Deivisceris utilizes randomness in order to create a new experience every time it is played. The game board is built up differently every time it is played and characters' stats, such as strength, intelligence, and endurance, may be different in each game. The game's story is revealed through clues within the gameplay, illustrations, and text. Deivisceris is a tabletop role-playing horror experience that can be further expanded on in the future with the possibility of a larger production.

This thesis aimed to explore factors, which players consider when choosing their protagonist's gender and what impact that choice has on gameplay. We used two popular games as reference: “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey“ (Ubisoft Quebec, 2018) and “Baldur's Gate 3” (Larian Studios, 2023). This study was conducted by interviewing participants and sending out surveys among the two games’ communities with a total of 493 participants sharing their answers. The sample group mainly consisted of players from several European countries and the United States of America, with 280 identifying as male, 181 as female, and 32 as non-binary. It was found that the majority of players agreed that visual character customization and gender choice did provide them a greater sense of immersion. Furthermore, the storyline seemed to be a framing factor influencing player choices by offering a setting players carefully considered when designing/choosing their protagonists. These results can be of use to game designers who wish to gain an understanding of players’ gender choices and impacts on their role-playing-game gameplay experience. Additionally, further research is suggested to get a deeper understanding of outlying factors that players might consider when choosing a character.

Este trabalho discute a incorporação de novos materiais pela escola através do estudo da leitura de impressos de RPG (role-playing games, ou jogos de interpretação de papéis). Estes impressos (livros e revistas) começaram a surgir no país por volta de 1990 e no decurso da década se diversificaram bastante, inclusive graças a uma volumosa produção de títulos nacionais. Em 2001, quando uma estudante foi assassinada em Ouro Preto e o crime foi associado à prática dos role-playing games, dois aspectos aparentemente contrários tornaramse evidentes por um lado, a presença de jogos que parodiam temas religiosos e aos quais se atribuiu influência sobre o comportamento criminoso, e por outro, a existência de livros dedicados a assuntos do currículo escolar. Com base numa aliança entre preceitos da História Cultural, da Lingüística e da Psicanálise, este trabalho procura compreender esse trajeto, pensando particularmente no problema de como surgem novos sentidos na leitura e como esses sentidos passam a ser negociados uma vez que se instauram no discurso. Através da descrição de impressos de RPG e da análise de diversos aspectos da sua leitura, manuseio e circulação, o trabalho visa discutir as formas como a linguagem não apenas manifesta, mas efetivamente sustenta e realiza as relações de poder através das quais um determinado tipo de material pode se constituir como objeto de relevância para a escola. / This work discusses the adoption of new materials in school by studying the reading of RPG (role-playing game) publications. These publications (books and magazines) first appeared in Brazil around 1990 and throughout that decade became very diverse also due to a voluminous production of national titles. By 2001, when a student was murdered in the city of Ouro Preto and the crime was reputed to role-playing game pratices, two apparently contrary aspects became evident: on the one hand, the presence of games that parody religious themes and to which an influence upon criminal behavior was attributed, and on the other hand the existence of books dedicated to school subjects. Based on concepts from Cultural History, Linguistics and Psychoanalysis, this work attempts to explain this trajectory, considering particularly the problem of how new meanings occur in reading and how these meanings are dealt with once they are installed in a discourse. By describing RPG publications and analysing how they might be read, handled and passed on among readers, this works discusses how language not only manifests, but rather supports and effects power relations by which a certain type of material may become an object of relevance from the schools perspective.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARCIA REGINA BOSCARIOL-BERTOLINO.pdf: 7688545 bytes, checksum: 8aba6cbcb5c0c2e20ad3f15d29e474ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-01 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The present interdisciplinary research is aimed at analyzing the most frequent verbs, its collocates and lexical patterns found in the texts of videogames, specifically the Digital Role Playing Games. It is proposed based in the results of the research, a material using the patterns for English Teaching using the patterns found in study corpus. There are many researches about characterization though there isn t any that make a description of the language of Digital RPGs following the theories of Corpus Linguistics and linked it to English teaching. The present aims fill in such gap. The research is based on the Corpus Linguistics theoretical frame. We use Task Based Learning how pedagogocal support. Two corpora were applied in this research : 1- the study corpus made of Digital RPGs texts with a total of about 600.000 words and the Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA) with a total of 360 million tokens as the reference corpus used to help preparing the teaching materials. The research questions guiding the present study were: (1) what are the most frequent verbs found in the study corpus? (2) what are the typical lexicogrammar patterns found in the Digital RPG genre? (3) how is it possible to apply the patterns found in the texts to prepare task based activities? The results show many lexico-grammatical patterns that characterize the games and can be useful in English learning as foreign language, in Private and public schools, in different grade levels / O trabalho aqui desenvolvido é interdisciplinar e teve como objetivo a análise dos verbos mais freqüentes no corpus de estudo, seus colocados e os padrões lexicais que aparecem nos textos de videogames, especificamente os Role Playing Games Digitais (RPGs). Propomos, com base nos resultado, um material didático para o ensino de inglês utilizando os padrões encontrados no corpus de estudo. Embora haja uma série de pesquisas sobre caracterização de linguagem, e jogos e educação, não se conhece até o momento nenhuma que trate exatamente da descrição da linguagem dos RPGs Digitais sob a ótica da lingüística de Corpus e a alie ao ensino de Inglês. A presente pesquisa pretende colaborar para preencher essa lacuna. O arcabouço teórico da pesquisa se baseia em Lingüística de Corpus. Como suporte pedagógico utilizamos Task Based Learning. Dois corpora foram empregados na pesquisa: o corpus de estudo, que é composto por textos de RPGs Digitais, totaliza mais de 600 palavras, e o de referência, o Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA), com mais de 360 milhões de palavras, foi usado como auxiliar na elaboração do material didático. Foram propostas as seguintes questões de pesquisa: (1) Quais são os verbos mais freqüentes no corpus de estudo? (2) Quais padrões léxico-gramaticais são típicos no gênero RPG Digitais? (3) De que forma é possível aplicar os padrões encontrados nos textos na elaboração das atividades baseadas em tarefas? Os resultados mostraram diversos padrões léxicogramaticais que caracterizam os jogos e que podem ser úteis no aprendizado de inglês como língua estrangeira, na escola pública, em vários níveis

Este trabalho discute a incorporação de novos materiais pela escola através do estudo da leitura de impressos de RPG (role-playing games, ou jogos de interpretação de papéis). Estes impressos (livros e revistas) começaram a surgir no país por volta de 1990 e no decurso da década se diversificaram bastante, inclusive graças a uma volumosa produção de títulos nacionais. Em 2001, quando uma estudante foi assassinada em Ouro Preto e o crime foi associado à prática dos role-playing games, dois aspectos aparentemente contrários tornaramse evidentes por um lado, a presença de jogos que parodiam temas religiosos e aos quais se atribuiu influência sobre o comportamento criminoso, e por outro, a existência de livros dedicados a assuntos do currículo escolar. Com base numa aliança entre preceitos da História Cultural, da Lingüística e da Psicanálise, este trabalho procura compreender esse trajeto, pensando particularmente no problema de como surgem novos sentidos na leitura e como esses sentidos passam a ser negociados uma vez que se instauram no discurso. Através da descrição de impressos de RPG e da análise de diversos aspectos da sua leitura, manuseio e circulação, o trabalho visa discutir as formas como a linguagem não apenas manifesta, mas efetivamente sustenta e realiza as relações de poder através das quais um determinado tipo de material pode se constituir como objeto de relevância para a escola. / This work discusses the adoption of new materials in school by studying the reading of RPG (role-playing game) publications. These publications (books and magazines) first appeared in Brazil around 1990 and throughout that decade became very diverse also due to a voluminous production of national titles. By 2001, when a student was murdered in the city of Ouro Preto and the crime was reputed to role-playing game pratices, two apparently contrary aspects became evident: on the one hand, the presence of games that parody religious themes and to which an influence upon criminal behavior was attributed, and on the other hand the existence of books dedicated to school subjects. Based on concepts from Cultural History, Linguistics and Psychoanalysis, this work attempts to explain this trajectory, considering particularly the problem of how new meanings occur in reading and how these meanings are dealt with once they are installed in a discourse. By describing RPG publications and analysing how they might be read, handled and passed on among readers, this works discusses how language not only manifests, but rather supports and effects power relations by which a certain type of material may become an object of relevance from the schools perspective.