{"624891":{"#nid":"624891","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Video Game Violence Once United Political Parties. Why Is It A Partisan Issue Now?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently interviewed by \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Public Broadcasting\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ein a segment entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Video Game Violence Once United Political Parties. Why Is It A Partisan Issue Now?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the aftermath of mass shootings, debate over why these massacres keep happening \u0026mdash; and how to fix them \u0026mdash; bubbles up again. And, after the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Donald Trump again pointed to mental illness and violent video games.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPoliticians singling out video games for inspiring violence isn\u0026#39;t new. (Nor is the research\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/video-games-are-still-blamed-gun-violence-despite-studies-showing-no-connection\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edebunking this connection\u003C\/a\u003E.) In the past, however, moral outrage and blame came from both sides of the political aisle. Now,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/08\/video-game-violence-became-partisan-issue\/595456\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea recent article in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;argues that the topic has become an increasingly partisan issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/video-game-violence-once-united-political-parties-why-it-partisan-issue-now\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-08-21 16:17:36","changed_gmt":"2019-08-21 16:17:36","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"subtitle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/video-game-violence-once-united-political-parties-why-it-partisan-issue-now","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=cy9ipBQS"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}