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• 1 2025-03-25T19:23:04+00:00 Group 3 - "c ya laterrrr" and Frasca - Julia, Ava, Sanjana, and Sriya 9 plain 2025-03-27T18:59:22+00:00 "Instead of being 'inside the skin' of the character, he encouraged having a critical distance that would let them understand their role. Brazilian dramatist Augusto Boal (1971) took Brecht's ideas even further by creating a set of techniques, known as the 'Theater of the Oppressed'(TO), that tear down the stage's 'fourth wall.' Boal's main goal is to foster critical thinking and break the actor/spectator dichotomy by creating the 'spect-actor,' a new category that integrates both by giving them active participation in the play." (88)
  
  Frasca describes the idea of becoming a "spect-actor," allowing players to both actively partake in the game while also maintaining their perspective as an outsider.
  
  audience (of the game): People on social media who either know someone impacted by the Manchester bombing, or have heard of it through social media/news outlets. These people can be considered the "spectators" in terms of Frasca's definition, as they are able to actively make decisions in the game.
  purpose: To educate and share an experience of someone directly impacted by the Manchester bombing and also how social media can desensitize certain traumatic events. 
  context: The game is played online in an online storytelling manner. It relied solely on the narrative and allowed the user to go through different paths and the author broke through the "fourth wall."
  
  Image 1: In this image, users take on the role of a "spectactor" by knowing that the narrators brother is dead before he finds out. The users outside knowledge is the "spectator" aspect of being a spectactor, but still goes through the actor's experience of discovering his brothers death.
  
  Image 2: In the second image, the user sees the red texts displaying messages from people online asking about his brother after the concert. The placement of the text messages forces the reader to engage with it and the red color is striking against the small black texts. It emphasizes how people on social media might empathize with people who go through these traumatic events but can't fully understand the emotions the victims' families go through.