Video games are good for society! – VGHVI
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Not according to Roger Travis, an associate professor of modern and classical languages at the University of Connecticut.
To the contrary, “The best argument (in my classicist’s opinion) is that if the Iliad and the Odyssey didn’t destroy society, but instead made Western Civilization great, video games are quite possibly doing the same thing right now,” Wired Campus has him saying.
He’s running a new site called VGHVI (Video Games and Human Values Initiative) and Michael Abbott, an associate professor of theater at Wabash College who’s also working with the new online center, “describes the project as an ‘online nexus for courses and scholarship to advance our understanding of how video games and their culture can constructively shape our values and enrich society’,” says the story.
“This is an open group, so please join up if you want to take part in our new interdisciplinary, interinstitutional, even ecumenical conversation about video games, and to help shape its future,” says the site, adding:
“The initiative is for gamers and non-gamers, academics and non-academics, students and teachers, parents and their high-school and college kids. That is, it’s for you — so don’t hesitate to join if you’re excited — or concerned — about what video games are doing in our society.”
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Wired Campus – U. of Connecticut Creates Online Forum to Discuss ‘Video Games and Human Values’, November 17, 2008
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I loved my Odyssey2. And it never destroyed society, though Pick Axe Pete destroyed a lot of boulders.