{"id":52807,"date":"2019-08-06T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=52807"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:41:26","slug":"the-el-paso-shooting-and-video-games-as-a-partisan-issue-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-el-paso-shooting-and-video-games-as-a-partisan-issue-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The El Paso Shooting and Video Games as a Partisan Issue &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ferguson insisted that the debate about video-game violence will live on as long as there are video games to play and researchers to study them. \u201cBut the evidence is very clear that there\u2019s not a relationship between violent video games and violence in society. There\u2019s not evidence of a correlation, let alone a causation,\u201d he said. Other researchers have come to <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2014-33466-001\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'21',r'None'\">the same conclusion<\/a>, and the American Psychological Association\u2019s media-psychology division issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/div46amplifier.com\/2017\/06\/12\/news-media-public-education-and-public-policy-committee\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'22',r'None'\">public statement<\/a> in 2017 discouraging politicians and journalists from connecting games and violence. In his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31273603\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'23',r'None'\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29853012\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'24',r'None'\">studies<\/a> on longitudinal behavior, Ferguson and his collaborators have concluded that violent games don\u2019t appear to predict <em>anything <\/em>useful about violent thoughts or acts\u2014not physical aggression, social aggression, or even cyberbullying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/08\/video-game-violence-became-partisan-issue\/595456\/?fbclid=IwAR17VmeDBuXUVMOJ8Yr-mhpxRppvXPIgPVW-h7ZxA3Ry611yvh-7Si2pYwU\">The El Paso Shooting and Video Games as a Partisan Issue &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article by Ian Bogost is published and written urgently after the white-suprematist shooting in El Paso, Texas, earlier this week. It lays out the history of the moral panic and it presents outcomes from an interview with researcher, Ferguson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferguson insisted that the debate about video-game violence will live on as long as there are video games to play and researchers to study them. \u201cBut the evidence is very clear that there\u2019s not a relationship between violent video games and violence in society. There\u2019s not evidence of a correlation, let alone a causation,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[2,10],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-52807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-words","tag-humane-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dJJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807","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=52807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52808,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52807\/revisions\/52808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}