A study on the effects on the brain of ‘violent’ videogames has resulted in this almost wholly indefensible interview on MSN.
Just a few of the problems I would point out:
1) The underlying assumption is that “increased activity in a part of the brain that governs emotional arousal” is somehow worse than “activity in the parts [...]
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Why does interesting research always involve fantastical leaps of logic?
Posted in video games on December 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Unwise use of an hour of my morning.
Posted in video games on September 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
After the complete lack of any comments whatsoever when I requested links to important articles on games and aesthetics, I finally decided to do a little poking around this morning myself.
Truth be told, I’m not sure what I found.
- Using Emory’s journal finder, I was not able to track down a single gaming journal. The only [...]
Thoughts on gaming and aesthetics
Posted in video games on September 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
As regular readers are no doubt becoming aware, I’m struggling to maintain interest in my classes to start this semester. Many of the films we are screening in my classes are entirely devoid of interest for me, and it gets tougher to be a film scholar when watching films actually feels like work.
So my brain [...]
