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• 21 May 14
  

  Celso Tumolo

  video games violence

• 17 Oct 11
  

  Zijada C

  Violenceinvideogames

• 16 Apr 11
  

  Adam Jefferies
  • • A recent Dateline  expose shows just how easy it is for underage children to purchase  adult-rated video games such as Grand Theft Auto, even at stores that allegedly  have a system for checking age identification. Two years after a dramatic  Federal Trade Commission report found that adult-rated entertainment products  are pervasively and aggressively being marketed to children, 80 percent of the  minors who attempted to buy Mature-rated products were still able to do so.  
• 01 Mar 11
  

  Allison Couch
• 11 Nov 10
  

  Aneesh Mysore

  media violence

  • The article gives some details about HR 669, a bill pending  in Congress which would make it illegal to sell ultra-violent video games to  children. 
  • A Boston Globe article examines arguments in a U.S.  Court of Appeals case brought by the industry against a St. Louis County ordinance that  restricts minors' access to violent video games
  • Playing violent video games can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior, say  researchers in the BBC News article

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• 20 Sep 10
  

  Brianna Sarceno

  The Influence of Media Violence on Youth by Craig Anderson, Leonard Berkowitz, Edward Donnerstein, L. Rowell Huessman, James D. Johnson, Daniel Linz, Neil Malamuth and Ellen Wartella in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, December 2003.
  Content and Ratings of Teen-Rated Video Games by Kevin Haninger; Kimberly M. Thompson in JAMA, February 2004 (abstract).

  • Grand  Theft Auto
  • those teens are more likely to have been in a fight than  those who have not played
  • adult-rated entertainment products are pervasively and aggressively being marketed to  children,
  • "The best selling games of the past year glorify and reward  extreme violence, particularly toward women,"
  • "It is sold to boys as cool,
  • Playing violent video games can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior
  • the less children play video games, or watch  television, the less aggressive they become

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• 22 May 08
  

  kim tufts

  violencevideo games psa media

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