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dc.contributor.authorDerby, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-09T18:32:49Z
dc.date.available2017-11-09T18:32:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationDerby, J. (2016). Virtual realities: The use of violent video games in US military recruitment and treatment of mental disability caused by war. Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(1).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25311
dc.description.abstractThis article critically analyzes the U.S. military's contradictory use of violent video gaming technologies for recruiting young gamers to the military, training soldiers for combat, and clinically treating soldiers for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by military service. Using a Disability Studies lens, I discuss the commercial video game Full Spectrum Leader/Warrior, the U.S. Army's free video game America's Army, and the virtual reality exposure therapy application Virtual Iraq. I also discuss missions and omissions from the literature on these gaming technologies, which bolsters the underlying ableism of military culture that inhibits soldiers from recovering from PTSD.en_US
dc.publisherOhio State University Librariesen_US
dc.rightsDisability Studies Quarterly is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectPosttraumatic stress disorderen_US
dc.subjectPTSDen_US
dc.subjectU.S. militaryen_US
dc.subjectViolent video gamesen_US
dc.subjectVirtual reality therapyen_US
dc.subjectAmerica's Armyen_US
dc.subjectVirtual Iraqen_US
dc.subjectBraveminden_US
dc.titleVirtual realities: The use of violent video games in U.S. military recruitment and treatment of mental disability caused by waren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorDerby, John
kusw.kudepartmentVisual Arten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.18061/dsq.v36i1.4704en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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