A balanced look at violent videogames
It’s nice to see more balanced treatments of the complex subject of videogame violence starting to make it both into the scientific community and the educational community. I’ll have to track down this book, Grand Theft Childhood.
From the interview on Open Education:
A number of our findings went against common wisdom. One surprise was how many preteen girls played M-rated video games. About a fifth of girls rarely or never played video games. But another fifth had played Grand Theft Auto “a lot in the past six months.” Based on some of their comments, we suspect that girls play these games differently and for different reasons than boys. Since we bought into the myth that girls don’t like violent games, we didn’t recruit them for focus groups in this set of studies. We hope to talk with GTA-playing girls in future studies.
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A balanced look at violent videogamesPosted on March 26, 2008 by Raph
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Dr Tanya Byron has just completed a review for the UK government about video games (I believe she’s a child pyschologist). All over the news in England today, you can get an overview form the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7314751.stm). Listened to some lively radio debates on the radio on the way in.
Amongst other things it looks like there will be a requirement to classify all games for children aged 12 and above.
[…] and a bit of common sense (ie we’re all doomed). I fully recommend a read. (Source of link: Raph Koster’s blog). […]