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One of my former students, Ajay Kumar, has just published a piece on the US military’s use of videogames as recruitment tools. The piece appears in GW Discourse, the student-run publication of George Washington University’s Political Science Department. The piece was written prior to the leaked video footage of the helicopter gunship attack in Baghdad, [...]
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Uncle Sam Wants You!
Posted: May 13, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Games and the Media, Games and the MilitaryTags: military, recruitment, simulation, videogames, wargames
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The Game of War
Posted: April 13, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Games and Life, Games and the Media, Games and the MilitaryTags: Baghdad, civilian casualties, computer games, gunship, Iraq, journalism, news media, videogames, war games, Wikileaks. Facebook
In the same period that the popularity of gaming has skyrocketed, rates of violence in the US, especially among younger people, have steadily declined. Of course, that won’t stop your average Concerned Parents group from trotting out the first piece of dubious research into game violence they can lay their Google on, but that speaks more to the general scientific (and research) illiteracy of our society. After all, there are people who actually argue that Creation Science is, well, a science.
