Comments on: Reflecting on NCA 2007

By: Geek Studies » Blog Archive » Seeking Truth in Video Game Ratings

Geek Studies » Blog Archive » Seeking Truth in Video Game Ratings — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:35:04 +0000

[...] follow-up to a paper I presented at the National Communication Association 2007 conference, which I described here some months [...]

By: Geek Studies » Blog Archive » Is the Web Overrun by Geeks, or Is Everyone Geeky Now?

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:38:04 +0000

[...] Parks mentioned in one NCA panel that large numbers of people with broadband access are still what we would consider light or [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:51:28 +0000

Unless these were video games where the goal is to deny people funding, I see no connection whatsoever between “aggression” and funding denial.

Though if the link exists, perhaps insurance companies will start mandating Halo lunch breaks…

By: Church

Church — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:50:12 +0000

This post over at MF might be of interest:
http://www.metafilter.com/66923/Homophobia-in-Halo-3

By: Church

Church — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:31:09 +0000

Nice. Some quick thoughts:

“What was a little more shocking was how much blatantly racist speech there was (appearing in about 13% of the games in their sample).”

That’s interesting, although I’m not suprised (and I’m not really a gamer, so I didn’t have any preconceptions there.) Internet trolls routinely use race in an attempt to be provocative.

I’d be interested to see that in context. I’m sure some of it is just parroting phrases from rap, for example.

“…they asked subjects to assess whether they would award funding to someone who was applying for it.”

The denial of which was ‘aggression?’ Only an academic. I’m going to start calling the failure to collect your fonts “genocide.”