{"id":99,"date":"2008-12-09T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:51:50","slug":"torture-in-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2008\/12\/09\/torture-in-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture in WoW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some interesting news coming out re: a torture-based quest in the new WoW expansion.<\/p>\n<p>what does this imply about teaching (or being unable to teach) abstract values in a gaming world?<\/p>\n<p>Will there be a desensitizing effect?\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious as to how we&#8217;d test for one.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting idea &#8211; I don&#8217;t know enough about WoW to know if it is possible- would be to have a related quest be to save the prisoner and stop the torture.<\/p>\n<p>Commentary here<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youhaventlived.com\/qblog\/2008\/QBlog191108A.html<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Later update&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/virtualworlds\/commentary\/games\/2008\/12\/gamesfrontiers_1215\">follow-up from WIRED,<\/a> arguing for what I think is a pretty good rough analogy with our &#8220;games to teach values&#8221; discussion from early last summer where we mused on using WoW to teach tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some interesting news coming out re: a torture-based quest in the new WoW expansion. what does this imply about teaching (or being unable to teach) abstract values in a gaming world? Will there be a desensitizing effect?\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2008\/12\/09\/torture-in-wow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}