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AN ANALYSIS OF RACISM PORTRAYED IN BETHESDA’S THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM VIDEO GAME
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IAIN Surakarta
Author
Nur, Rochim Adiyanto
Nur, Asiyah, M. A.
Subject
604 Special topics 
Datestamp
2017-08-24 02:13:16 
Abstract :
Key words : Video Game, Racism, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is most open world game by Emil Pagliarulo. This game was released in 2011 and become famous game that dominate in the circle of RPG game. The researcher was interested to analyze The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim by employing Racism theory and the aspect as formulated for finding the data as long as pictured or implied in the gameplay of skyrim that consist of corversation/dialogue and visual action. One of his famous works is entitled The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, an open world game that have some uniqueness because we are free to choose our destination as the gamer. The researcher formulated the problems into: 1) How is the racism portrayed in bethesda’s the elder scrolls V: Skyrim? 2) How does racism in the bethesda’s the elder scrolls V: Skyrim reflect racism in the world? This research aims at identifying and analyzing how the racism in the game is reflected in the gameplay by using three aspects of racism and to prevent the world from suffer the same conclussion as Skyrim aftermath. The research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data are the dialogue, conversation, visual, and sentences conforming the Racism found in the game. The source of data is a game entitled The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim by Emil Pagliarulo. The researcher examined the race in the game reflecting the Racism to make it to be three aspects and the correlations of Racism in the game to the real world event. The result of this research the researcher found total of the data 30. The research shows that there are Racism event, as long as Discriminatin, Stereotype, Prejudice are found in The Elder Scrolls V Skyim Video Game consisting of main quest, sub quest, and visual action in the gameplay: Discrimination Racism: 19 data, Stereotype Racism: 7 data, and Prejudice Racism: 4 data. Then the researcher take some data that was found in the game to be correlated into the real world racial event. The researcher found 3 data of racial event or conversations, and the reseacher tries to explain to the reader depiction racism in the game with the real world. Based on this research the researcher found that racism in the game happens because uniques factor, the racism is to describe the feeling of injustice in their game. It means that the gameplay also describe the way people lives because the inspiration of this game came from the habit of the people today. Gamewriter tries to describe it in a game that of course we are as gamer/player have many selections because of the current development. 
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