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Using Parental help to Modify Behaviour, alarming parents, politicians and theorists alike. Contributing to a rich body of inquiry, this essay investigates the role of computer languages — code — in the creation of gaming content, its structures and narratives. Arguably, computer languages encapsulate interactive media products similarly

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09001-3ory a narrative of events, casualties and experiences of battle? Or does the war story inform and shape the very act of war? Is ‘realism’ the most important criterion when evaluating a representation of war or do the stories we fabricate shape our experience and comprehension of war? Perhaps the con

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Daniel Xerri,Patricia Vella Briffaf soldiers, policemen, secret agents or professional killers (., 2004), which implies war action or ‘small-scale violence’, such as shootings or bombings. Rapid progress in computing technology has rendered the audiovisual appearance and the interactive quality of today’s video-game violence extreme

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Daniel Xerri,Patricia Vella Briffas of emotional response to what kind of ideological factors realise themselves in the game world, but all are predicated on the fact that there is always an ethical system implicit to a game’s architecture. Friedman (1999), for instance, focuses on the specific manifestations of ideology in the game

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