Lucy Sparrow

PhD Candidate, School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS), The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

You wouldn’t hit a dog, so why would you kill one in Minecraft?

Violence against humans in video games has long been controversial – but what about violence against animals in the virtual world?

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