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= **Related re-engagement Articles** = = Dad Uses 'Call of Duty' to Teach Son History, Military Ethics = by [|Warren Riddle] on February 24, 2009 at 09:12 AM ====Hugh Spencer, a writer and designer of museum and public educational exhibitions, has created a new and unique method of keeping his teenage son from engaging in gratuitous video game violence.....Mr. Spencer asked Evan to Google the Geneva Convention (a series of treaties which focus primarily on the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war) and then read it so that he and his father could discuss it. From the discussion, Evan agreed to fight his opponents according to the rules of the convention. Not only did Evan agree to adhere to the convention's rules, but he also agreed to stop play in the event one of his teammates disregarded the rules.[| Visit the Source: http://www.switched.com/2009/02/24/dad-uses-call-of-duty-to-teach-son-history-military-ethics/][| LInk to call of duty website]==== = //Call of Duty as Historical Reenactment// = By [|Katy Meyers] ==== "...video games (like historical reenactment) are a way of peopling the past. Vanessa Agnew (2007) argues that historical reenactment is an indication of a recent shift in the perception of history to a more affective representation, characterized by “conjectural interpretations of the past, the collapsing of temporalities and an emphasis on affect, individual experience and daily life rather than historical events, structures and processes”. Video games allow for the past to become more than “stale events” or “timelines”, creating a depth and richness that can be lacking in history. Unlike reenactment, video games allow players to engage with World War II in the exact location that the battle took place, with period weaponry, but then can jump to a relevant battle in another country; pulling singular events together in a structured narrative..." ==== Agnew, Vanessa 2007. History’s affective turn: Historical reenactment and its work in the present Rethinking History. //In// The Journal of Theory and Practice 11(3): 299-312. Visit the:Source: []