A response to a newspaper editorial about video game violence:
Filed under: Video Games | Tagged: Mario Kart, Mario Kart Wii, Metro, Newspaper, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Video Game Violence, Video Games, Wii | Leave a Comment »
Causation/Correlation
Posted on February 28, 2008 by Wow
My friend Mike who is an Economics PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin sent me a link to a pretty neat Blog by Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard. He spends a lot of time discussing Causation vs. Correlation, which is a pretty big issue in media studies right now as well (especially [...]
Filed under: Video Games, Websites | Tagged: Causation, Correlation, Economics, Media Studies, Video Game Violence | 1 Comment »
School Shooters All Play Video Games (Also: All Have Cell Phones)
Posted on February 16, 2008 by Wow
It really irks me when the media grabs a hold of the these school shooting stories (which are horrible things to happen), and immediately place the blame on something, anything, they can find. And the easiest target is of course the media, specifically video games. Kotaku picked up on this incredible inaccurate reporting from the [...]
Filed under: Video Games | Tagged: Counter-Strike, Counterstrike, FPS, School Shooting, Video Game Violence, Video Games | Leave a Comment »
