Video Games: Are the Myths True?
Dave Munger,
Cognitive Daily,
Dec 20, 2005
Good discussion of an essay by Henry Jenkins intended to dispel the myths about the role of video games in causing aggression and violence. What I like is not so much the thrust of the argument - because I think that the relation between games and anti-social behaviour is misrepresented and overblown - but in the rigor applied to the reasoning. Bad argumentation helps nobody, whether or not it supports your point of view. And I think the authors of Cognitive Daily have come to reach the sort of nuanced view on games that accords very much with my own. After all, as they write, "You can't have it both ways - if video games are good for teaching good stuff, they're also good for teaching bad stuff... Video games are a powerful influence on society, for both good and bad." Via ACRLog.
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