Guest Blogging

Guest Blogger

Today Sharonda is guest blogging for me, she is a classmate is is writing her own blog on Cosplay Ethics, I suggest you check out her blog.

Now I will hand this over to Sharonda:

“Government under the control and direction of the inhabitants of a political unit rather than by an outside authority; broadly:  control of one's own affairs” Merriam-webster.com, 2014This is the definition of self-government, well the definition according the Merriam Webster’s dictionary.com. If we learned anything from history class or game of thrones, it’s that if one person has all the power, the chance for a tyrannical ruling increases immensely. Now let’s look at the online gaming community and the problems that are within it that could be an obstacle in self-governing online community.Trolling and bullying is big problem we still face in the U.S. and the internet has been prevalent medium for racial, sexist and cognitive bullying via media. In fact we experience so much of this on set bullying that we have invented two new terms for it. One in which is:

1. Trolling, According to urban dictionary trolling is “being a prick on the internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander, because it's the internet and, hey, you can.” Urban Dictionary, 2014

2. Cyberbullying which “happens when kids bully each other through electronic technology. Find out why cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying, what you can do to prevent it, and how you can report it when it happens.” Stopbullying.gov, 2014Although the cause of the self-governing community seems legit, because having a government run by the people means that you will have a government made like how the people want it to run.  Take into consideration the people within the community, and the ways people can manipulate who they are, what they believe and how they will be punished by hiding behind a computer screen. This is a problem we still are still trying to solve.