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- Title
Teaching Us to Fear: The Violent Video Game Moral Panic and the Politics of Game Research.
- Authors
MARKEY, PATRICK M.; FERGUSON, CHRISTOPHER J.
- Abstract
In this excerpt from their new book, Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong (BenBella Books, 2017), the authors present an argument in defense of video games while dispelling the myth that such games lead to real-world violence. The authors define and examine moral panics and provide guidelines for identifying and understanding this phenomenon. They focus in particular on how the moral panic around video games has affected scientific research on games.
- Subjects
VIDEO games &; psychology; VIOLENCE in video games; MORAL panics; PANIC; RESEARCH
- Publication
American Journal of Play, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
1938-0399
- Publication type
Article