{"id":195,"date":"2009-06-12T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:08:51","slug":"more-trouble-in-river-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/06\/12\/more-trouble-in-river-city\/","title":{"rendered":"More Trouble in River City"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Here&#8217;s a well-written explanation for why most of the media-effects studies really don&#8217;t tell us anything:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 38px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">WHY <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 49px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">VIDEO <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 46px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">GAME <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 80px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">RESEARCH <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 17px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">IS <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 60px; height: 16px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">FLAWED<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"author\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 18px; height: 12.8px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">By <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 38px; height: 12.8px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">CHRIS <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"width: 51px; height: 12.8px;\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\">LAVIGNE<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Studies that spread the idea that video games are harmful to children are conducted by researchers whose knowledge about video games is embarrassingly poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">May 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar addthis_pub=\"4a0207972605ac7c\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/200\/addthis_widget.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>What do 23 martial-arts fighters have in common with a talking Australian marsupial? According to one team of video game researchers, they\u2019re identical.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the journal Aggressive Behavior published a study by a group of Dutch psychologists examining gaming and violence in children. As in most video game research, a lack of fundamental video game knowledge led to a study no gamer would consider credible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maisonneuve.org\/article\/2009\/05\/25\/why-video-game-research-is-flawed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the whole article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-195'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(195);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(195);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(195);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Here&#8217;s a well-written explanation for why most of the media-effects studies really don&#8217;t tell us anything: WHY VIDEO GAME RESEARCH IS FLAWED By CHRIS LAVIGNE Studies that spread the idea that video games are harmful to children are conducted by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/06\/12\/more-trouble-in-river-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[388,41,31,392,25,26],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-game-studies","tag-general","tag-trouble-in-river-city","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-39","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2008\/05\/17\/videogames-ya-got-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"Videogames \u2013 Ya Got Trouble!~","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some years ago I was at a conference where Dmitri Williams was talking about the social history of videogames. He made reference to this song as a way of illustrating how the societal reaction to videogames isn\u2019t really new. Since then I\u2019ve thought about re-working (OK maybe perverting a little)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2888,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/09\/24\/do-you-think-videogames-are-toys\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":1},"title":"Do You Think Videogames are Toys?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The way things are labelled inevitably affects how they are perceived. If you think of videogames as \"toys\", it paints a radically different picture than if you think of them as a medium for communication and expression. One way trivializes them, the other places them on the same page as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5421,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/25\/theres-still-trouble-in-river-city-apparently\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":2},"title":"There&#8217;s STILL Trouble in River City, Apparently","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias. 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A Well-written article worth the time to read. 100 years of Big Content fearing technology\u2014in its own words For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1528,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/12\/14\/violent-games-not-to-blame-for-youth-aggression\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":4},"title":"Violent games not to blame for youth aggression","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally! A study that looks for the keys where they were lost rather than under the streetlight. Violent games not to blame for youth aggression. 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