Lecture to Target FPSs

Lecture to Target FPSs

September 30, 2009

An upcoming lecture in Queensland, Australia, looks to tackle the topic of first-person shooters and real-life violence, according to a news story at Crispy Gamer.

The lecture, entitled "Are Video games to Blame" and to be delivered by academic Peter Mantello, plans to ask if "these kinds of games by their very nature desensitize young adult males and teens to violence, conflict and war and ignore conflict resolution." Apparently, Mantello is a gamer and a founder of the Center for Advanced Media Arts Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.

The Crispy commenter takes issue with the way the university news story on lecture, wondering if certain quotes by Mantello are direct or taken out of context. For example:

“Players transform into cyborg soldiers and patriotic crusaders whose goal is to liberate failed nations, protect national security interests and vanquish pre-modern evil."

The lecture is scheduled for Oct. 5 at the University of Queensland’s School of Political Science and International Studies in St. Lucia.

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Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by DarkSaber - September 30, 2009 at 12:01 pm -0500

Cue hootings of "bad science" in 3...2...1...

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Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by insanejedi - September 30, 2009 at 12:40 pm -0500

Australia

That was all the information I needed.

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by Sai - September 30, 2009 at 1:10 pm -0500

Because clearly no young adult females play these games as well? Or are women just inherently incorruptable?  Oh your ignorance is already showing.  

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by Neeneko - September 30, 2009 at 1:52 pm -0500

Well, everyone knows girls never commit violent crimes.  They are good and pure (as long as they are not soiled, in which case they are corrupting whores that need to be kept away from good boys) and made of unicorn farts.

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by Nekowolf - September 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm -0500

Don't forget when they're menstruating. They're unclean, defiled creatures then, and everything they sit or lay on is dirtied as well. Or anyone who touches what they sit or laid on.

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by dsparil - September 30, 2009 at 1:32 pm -0500

For a second I thought this guy would be yet another JT but after reading that he was a gamer himself then I can see this lecture to be more objective than usual.

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by hellfire7885 - September 30, 2009 at 2:17 pm -0500

Hmm, I wonder if one of the AGs might suddenly find something wrong with the building so the lecture can't take place.

Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by Ratros - September 30, 2009 at 2:42 pm -0500

Anyone can say they're a gamer, but I'll hold my cynicism in till we see more about said speech.

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Re: Lecture to Target FPSs
Submitted by JustChris - September 30, 2009 at 3:16 pm -0500

Well, the speech does seem to go deeper than "games turn humans into killing machines" and questions more its influence on diplomacy.

Because soldiers by themselves don't really influence politics. It's the high ranking officials and diplomats that direct the course of international relations.

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