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Dog Drones and the Future of Warfare
In anticipation of next week’s readings on militainment, check out this HuffPost interview about DARPA’s development of dog drones for use in warfare. And while you’re at it, check out DARPA, which is...
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Blog Post 3: Ferguson Argues Against Video Game – Violence Correlation
Oversimplifying a tragedy such as a school or mass shooting by identifying the cause as violent videogames is not only inaccurate and misplaced, but also does not bring us any closer to fixing...
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Recent: VP Biden on Violent Videogames
Proof that our class discussion today is as topical as ever, the VP was asked about his opinion on violent videogames: “There’s no hard data on whether these excessively violent video games, in fact,...
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Military Games: Not Just A Game
Recently, Prince Harry has been criticized in the news due to his comparison of his time in Afghanistan to being like video games. However, is this necessarily a bad thing? Or could it be that there is...
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Video game puts players in shoes of Syrian rebels
Staci forwarded this to me — it’s about a videogame that asks players to consider the complexities of the civil war that has claimed more than 11,000 lives since March 2011. Apple is refusing to...
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Counterstrike for Kids
Thought this was worth sharing with the class — a creative if somewhat confusing take on the video games cause violence debates.
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Demanding a Better Game!
Here is a link to a review of a Game called Spec-Ops: The Line. It actively subverts the traditional politics of the first person shooter by constantly questioning the morality of war through a pretty...
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