{"id":27556,"date":"2014-03-29T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-ultimately-i-argue-that-the-concept-of\/"},"modified":"2014-03-29T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T18:20:55","slug":"but-ultimately-i-argue-that-the-concept-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-ultimately-i-argue-that-the-concept-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But, ultimately, I argue that the concept of &ldquo;violent video games&rdquo; has about as much conceptual utility as &ldquo;blond people&rdquo; does in informing us about the characteristics of individual women and men. Our insistence on treating the concept of &ldquo;violent video games&rdquo; as something meaningful has succeeded mainly in keeping debates on video games emotional rather than rational. Furthermore, I argue that such terms have maintained researchers&rsquo; focus on an emotionally loaded Holy Grail in trying to link such media to an array of public health outcomes. Too often, this has functioned as a block to a sophisticated program of research examining the specific and idiosyncratic ways in which specific game design elements interact with specific users&rsquo; wants and needs in ways that are probably both more interesting and valuable. We can only hope that a new, nuanced, more balanced approach such as that recently suggested by Isabella Granic and her colleagues in the APA&rsquo;s flagship journal will hold sway in future research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/christopher-j-ferguson\/violent-video-games-dont-_b_5051733.html\">Violent Video Games Don&rsquo;t Exist\u00a0|\u00a0Christopher J. Ferguson<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, ultimately, I argue that the concept of &ldquo;violent video games&rdquo; has about as much conceptual utility as &ldquo;blond people&rdquo; does in informing us about the characteristics of individual women and men. Our insistence on treating the concept of &ldquo;violent video games&rdquo; as something meaningful has succeeded mainly in keeping debates on video games emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}