{"id":1318,"date":"2014-07-29T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2014-07-29T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:23:22","slug":"virtual-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/virtual-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of online gaming and virtual reality technology has exploded around the world, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the nation of South Korea. With some of the fastest internet connectivity and a cultural tendency towards all things high-tech, Koreans are experiencing internet addiction at unusually high rates.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point is the tragic story of a young couple who allowed their infant daughter to starve to death while they played an online game in which they raised a virtual child. The irony is striking. Last night HBO aired a documentary, <em>Love Child<\/em>, which told the tragic story as a cautionary tale to those who are too easily distracted by virtual worlds. Here&#8217;s the trailer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOVE CHILD \uc0ac\uc774\ubc84 \uc0ac\ub791\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnuKpjTFpPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The parents were charged with a lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter because of the nature of their &#8220;addiction&#8221; and the father served one year in jail. They&#8217;ve since had another baby and we can only hope that this outcome will be different.<\/p>\n<p>While this is an extreme example of internet addiction and its horrific outcome, milder forms of the ailment may be present closer to home. If you&#8217;re wondering if you suffer from net addiction, you can take this self-guided <a href=\"http:\/\/netaddiction.com\/internet-addiction-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of online gaming and virtual reality technology has exploded around the world, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the nation of South Korea. With some of the fastest internet connectivity and a cultural tendency towards all things high-tech, Koreans are experiencing internet addiction at unusually high rates. Case in point is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/virtual-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtual Tragedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13,16,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-media","category-interactive-media","category-media-effects","category-new-media","category-social-media","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}