{"id":737,"date":"2021-08-27T22:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:09:12","slug":"episode-25-how-games-make-us-better-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Episode 25: How Games Make Us Better People with Karen Schrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><strong>[Release Date: September 14, 2021]<\/strong>\u00a0When people talk about games and ethics, it\u2019s almost always about potential moral <em>problems<\/em> with gaming \u2013 things like violence, sexism, and addiction.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as if games couldn\u2019t do anything good for the world other than just be fun.\u00a0 But video games can also provide us with great opportunities for becoming better people!\u00a0 As our guest, game scholar and author, Karen Schrier, argues in her new book, games are <em>already<\/em> teaching us ethics and civics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3GLnOZFKuyQimK8ykbFIAl?theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: September 14, 2021]\u00a0When people talk about games and ethics, it\u2019s almost always about potential moral problems with gaming \u2013 things like violence, sexism,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87,89,88,19],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-better-people","tag-games-do-good","tag-karen-schrier","tag-video-games-ethics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/My-Post-5-copy-2.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}