videogames

Video Games and The Disciplines

Submitted by jed on November 4, 2008 - 7:05pm.
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Today Cat Norris, a colleague of mine, presented her ongoing research on the activation of racial stereotypes in video games to a Dartmouth colloquium. Cat began with a discussion of existing research on the topic of aggression and gender-coded imagery to connect her own research on racial bias to existing research methods. Thus far her experiments have used white male subjects playing Grand Theft Auto and Halo to test the activation of racial stereotypes.

A Video Game to Teach Nanotech

Submitted by Mechelle on October 7, 2007 - 10:58am.
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A Video Game to Teach Nanotech

Journalism of the Absurd

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on June 16, 2007 - 8:07am.
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Technology and culture theorist's Jonathan Sterne's Super Bon blog has a hilarious column on journalists trying to blame FOOD FIGHTS on the internet and videogames. Oh, yeah. We believe that, don't we? Some comments of my own, plus a reblog of Jonathan's blogspot.