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31 Jul 06

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The level of aggression of 153 middle and high
school students (as measured by teachers) was positively
correlated with the amount of students' self-reported
videogame play. (Fling, Smith, Rodriguez, Thornton, Atkins
& Nixon, Southwest Texas State University, 1992)
Male college students who played a more violent
version of Mortal Kombat scored higher on hostility measures
and had higher blood pressure than those who played a less
violent version (Ballard
& Wiest, Society for Research in Child Development,
Spring, 1995)

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* Some young people are troubled and confused. Violent video games give them the wrong idea about ways to solve their problems.

* There is already too much war and violence in the world today. Violent video games only add to those bad feelings.
Some people say video games are too real. A recent lawsuit blames the maker of one video game for causing two teens to shoot and kill a motorist in Tennessee. The boys said they got the idea from a violent video game called Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

We all know a person controls a video game. But can a video game control a person?
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Jack Thompson.org

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. In a free country, adults, by
and large, should be free to consume whatever they want. Now,
you know, most people think that maybe controlled substances oughtta
be controlled. Also, clearly, child pornography is contraband
definitionally by the harm it does to the victims of it, who are
the children, who are filmed being raped when you're making it.
So, there's some products that, that even adults shouldn't have.
But I think that when it comes to violent games, um, the standard
that I think is doable, and that is consistant with the first
amendment is that you don't sell adult games or mature-rated games
to an age group below which the label in the, in the rating indicate
they're harmful. It, It's just that simple.

30 Jul 06

Jack Thompson.org

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They want videogames for their new
recruits to kill and they don't care that they're going out there
to civilian teenagers. And they are, I think, very inappropriately
using the army website to teach kids that it's really cool to
kill people
We know the effect it has on kids. We
also know that brains don't stop growing until you're about 25.
If you start playing these games, you actually have a retardative
effect upon the development of the brain if you start doing it
before you're 25. So you wind up with a wacko like Charles McCoy
who was obsessively playing shooter video games for hours. He's
the Columbus serial highway shooter. He may be the functional
equivalent of a 15 year-old.
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- I think the Pakeerah tragedy
  underscores that.
- Studies out of Harvard and elsewhere
  that show they have demonstrable and more deleterious effects
  on kids because they process them in a different part of the brain
  than adults do. If some wacked-out adult wants to spend his time
  playing GTA: Vice City one has to wonder why he doesn't get a
  life, but when it comes to kids it has a demonstrable impact on
  their behavior and the development of the frontal lobes of their
  brain
- I'm a parent, and anybody's who's around kids, who's a parent
  or observed kids knows that kids act out what you fill their days
  and their minds with. It's common sense. It's in the education
  process. Nintendo, by the way, the dumbest ad campaign in the
  history of the world has decided to go with "You are what
  you play" [as their motto]. Thank you very much. Exhibit
  A. Every Jack Thompson and other "wacky" lawyer out
  there, as so described, appreciates Nintendo's in your face ad
  campaign which is irrefutable and is a gift to all of us who are
  trying to make the point. You are what you play.

29 Jul 06

JEFFREY H

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Youngsters are willing to expose themselves to unpleasant media images because the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs. Players, like researchers, have overriding reasons for engaging with violent themes.
The growing distaste for real violence may turn millions away from mock violence as a form of entertainment.
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- Much criticism of youth culture reflects the belief that there are vulnerable groups who will be affected by the media in ways that go against their grain, a "magic bullet" that will turn good kids bad.
- For children, computer games are in fact ‘games’ with their own rules. From an early age, they are aware that these rules do not apply outside the realm of the game, with the exception that children can include elements and rules from the games in their play
- On the contrary, all children in the investigation repudiated real-life violence.
- The violent elements fascinate some children, but this fascination should not be mistaken for a fascination with violence in the real world.
- What is the effect of voluntary (as opposed to enforced) exposure? Also missing from research is any acknowledgment that videogame players freely enter into play, and are always free to leave
- Can anyone reasonably draw a conclusion about the effects of violent video games from studies with such variable, inconsistent, ambiguous results? I can’t.
- In the rare study that measures both aggressive play and aggressive behavior (e.g., Cooper & Mackie, 1986), violent video games affect the former and not the latter.
- Children who played or observed the aggressive video game spent more time playing with the aggressive toy than did other children. This was particularly so for girls.
- In a study of elementary school children, Graybill, Strawniak, Hunter and O’Leary (1987) found no effects of video games on aggressive behavior, which was measured by pushing buttons that could reward or punish another child.
- Scott concludes that there is a "general lack of support for the commonly held view that playing aggressive computer games causes an individual to feel more aggressive."
- In studies by Ballard & Lineberger (1999), Scott (1995), and Winkel et al. (1987), the level of aggressive content in video games had no effect on subjects’ aggressive behavior.
- Kirsh expected that children playing the violent video game would retaliate more and expect more punishment than children playing the non-violent video game. This hypothesis was partially supported
- According to Kirsh, children exposed to the violent video game "responded more negatively" to the ambiguous provocation stories than children exposed to the relatively non-violent NBA Jam on three of the six questions. But there was no significant difference between those who played Mortal Kombat or NBA Jam in whether they regarded the other’s behavior as intentional or accidental.
- In the Sherry meta-analysis, playing time emerged as a negative predictor of effect size. That is, the more one played video games, the weaker the relation to aggressive behavior!
- "the majority of studies on very young children tend to show that children become more aggressive after playing or watching a violent video game, but these were all based on the observation of free play."
- "Even with experimental studies, there are problems of validity that derive from the fact that they do not measure ‘real aggression’ but rather simulated or pretend aggression."
- Reviews of video game research are as variable in their conclusions as the individual studies that comprise them. The same research is said to support different conclusions.
- Similarly, violence, if it is to be entertaining, must fulfill certain requirements: it must have a moral story, in which good triumphs over evil, and it must carry cues to its unreality -- music, sound effects, a fantasy story-line, cartoon-like characters. People are highly selective in the violence they seek or tolerate
- In one study, boys who played video games with violent themes showed the same positive facial expressions, quality of peer interaction, and enjoyment as those who played "neutral" games
- The same features that inhibit an opera audience from rushing the stage to prevent murder are present in video games. There are physical cues to the unreality of a game’s "violence," including the willing suspension of disbelief, the knowledge that you have control over events, and can pause at will or stop playing altogether. In video games, there are sound effects, scorekeeping, a joystick or keypad in your hand, and often playmates commenting on your performance, which simply involves streaming pixels at imaginary creatures on a two-dimensional screen.
- "In violent video games, aggression is often the main goal, and killing adversaries means winning the game and reaping the benefits. While in real life, murder is a crime, in a violent video game, murder is the most reinforced behavior…. The violent video game player is an active aggressor and the players’ behavioral repertoire is expanded to include new and varied aggressive alternatives."
- Correlational studies can tell us nothing about whether violent video games cause aggression. Even if we accept that there is a correlation between amount of time spent playing (violent) video games and aggressive behavior, there is no reason to think that games are the cause of aggression (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Colwell & Payne, 2000; Roe & Muijs, 1998).

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So the according to the FBI, the murder rate hit a new 40 year low in 2004. The best selling video game of 2004? Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The most disgusting thing to me is that some truly horrible high-school tragedies are being exploited by the media, and somehow, I'm part of the problem.
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- In 2004, 54% of games were rated �E� for Everyone, 33% were rated �T� for Teen, and only 12% were rated �M� for Mature. The vast majority of the best-selling titles every year are not rated �M.�
- In fact, there are 27 risk factors rated higher than exposure to violent media, like socioeconomic status, academic failure, poor parent-child relations, weak social ties, and being male. Quick! Ban all the males!
- Even if true, this does not necessarily mean violent media has created aggressive people. It is more likely that aggressive people are attracted to violent media
- To be fair, there have been about 300 studies on the effects of violent media, about 30 of which have been about video games. Most have found little to no connection, although some studies found a small, casual correlation between aggressive people and violent media.
- So I found the data sorted by age, and it turns out that through 2002, youth homicide actually dropped across the board, the only increase being among adults. If I may quote directly from the D.O.J. report, �Recently, the offending rates for 14-17 year-olds reached the lowest levels ever recorded.�
- Check out that ugly graph on the right. It doesn't take a genius to conclude that violent crime is at the lowest it has been in a good thirty years.
- No, really, I do. Ready?
  
  There is no epidemic of youth violence in America.

28 Jul 06

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THOMPSON: The video game industry gave him a cranial menu that popped up in the blink of an eye in that police station. And that menu offered him the split-second decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head, flee in a police car, just as the game itself trained them to do.

26 Jul 06

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Studies by child psychologists such as Dr. Ernest Lotecka of Harvard and Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein of Temple University and the University of Utrecht have repeatedly assessed the impact of games on the emotions, academics, socialization and self-image of children.
Parents and educators who look casually at boys playing out fighting games are quick to condemn--because the content of the games mirrors real societal problems. But to jump to the conclusion that game content leads to really inappropriate behavior is like speculating that students studying the Napoleonic Wars may lay siege to their neighborhood.
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- Every responsible independent study I've seen has concluded that kids do a spectacular job of keeping fantasy and reality in perspective.
- That view suggests that kids passively absorb the themes in video games, rather than interpreting and learning from them.
- First, it takes a very pessimistic view of parents, that they can't or won't monitor advisory labels on their kids' video games.
- In 1980, when Atari game machines took the consumer market by storm, players were generally 6 to 11 years old. But 1980's 11 year olds are today's 25 year olds, and they haven't lost their enthusiasm for video games.
- We at Sega received our share of the criticism despite the fact that we took the initiative to have an independent board of teachers, sociologists and child psychologists review our games, so we could label them with age-rated parental advisory stickers--and we did that two years ago, one year before the issue was even raised in Washington!
- Part of the criticism is easy to dismiss, the part that springs from the curmudgeonliness of parents who don't like to see their kids playing with toys they've never mastered.
- You're challenged by all sorts of outrageous adversaries, and you know it's all make believe.
- Most children born after 1970 have a profoundly different relationship to technology than their parents. For most teachers and parents, technology may be useful, but it's usually intimidating.
- Who here hasn't complained about voice mail hell, inscrutable e-mail, unprogrammable VCRs, un-usable CD-ROMs.
- Every responsible study commissioned to examine the link between violence in video games and violent behavior in children has determined that children can differentiate between real violence and make-believe violence.

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Modern video games are becoming more realistic in their depictions of graphic violence. Children who play these games are regularly taking an active part in decapitations, bodily dismemberment, and other grisly acts without encountering any of the real-life consequences of committing such actions.

25 Jul 06

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That is just an interpretation parents put on what has happened. Pure theory, based on their own preconceptions.
The only evidence that video games are addictive is that people play them. All this talk about "excess energy" or being "drawn in" and so on is not what scientists would call experimental data.
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- All games need an object and, if there are people in the game, it is natural to have drama, which means there will be goodies and baddies. The same is true in all drama, in all novels, plays, films, or whatever.
- But whatever the type of game, it is not violence. Violence is where you hurt people. Games just appear on a screen; they don't actually hurt anybody. The only actual hurting that goes on is by parents when they prevent or discourage children from playing.

24 Jul 06

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Equally troubling, video games often present violence in a glamorized light. Typical games cast players in the role of a shooter, with points scored for each "kill."
According to this view, the more often children practice fantasy acts of violence, the more likely they are to carry out real-world violent acts
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- A 1993 study, for instance, asked 357 seventh- and eighth-graders to select their preferences among five categories of video games. Thirty-two percent of the children selected the category "fantasy violence," and 17% selected "human violence." Only 2% of the children chose "educational games."

23 Jul 06

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The attack is an argument from ignorance. It has no rational basis. It is made by people who don't understand what they attack, and find its indicia frightening.
Young people are the ones most open to novelty. Consequently, they lead the way in the adoption of any new entertainment medium. Parent/teenager relationships being what they are, parents invariably view the new medium as threatening.
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- What they're doing makes them less likely to be a threat to public order. They're getting their jones--they're satisfying their antisocial impulses in a completely harmless way.
- And games of violence? They allow players to be violent, to act out their violent impulses, to hunt and shoot and kill--in a way that harms no one.
- It is foolish to try to change human nature; it is immutable, or mutable only through the slow process of evolution.
- Violence, and the attraction of violence, is a fundamental part of human nature.
- The idea that film or television or books make people violent has been debunked again and again. (For one thing, if it were true, Japan would, judging by its popular culture, surely be filled with violent pederasts instead of the civilized world's most peaceful and orderly population.)
- And of course, you die frequently yourself. The feeling engendered is not "I'm an immortal Rambo, I'm so cool I can kill anything"--rather, it's more like, "God, that was a hard level, those spider things with the cannon launchers are really tough, I'm glad I finally got through it."
- In short, Quake doesn't teach the lessons that the critics claim it teaches. The development of shooting games over time has not been toward more and more megaviolence; rather, it's been toward prettier and more-impressive 3D rendering (Unreal) and toward more compelling story-lines, interwoven more effectively with the game (Half-Life).
- To paraphrase: Violence used artistically is effective; violence used crudely is vile.
- And this repetition, the rhythm created, is one of the strongest draws for people to interactive entertainment. It's hypnotic. It's involving.
  
  Violence, he says, creates dissonance. It breaks the rhythm. Dissonance is not bad in itself; dissonance, consciously and creatively used, can be an extremely effective technique, in gaming as in music.
- Violence is, and should be, part of a designer's toolkit; but it is neither necessary nor sufficient.
- Consider Postal, published two years ago. It's a shooter in which you play a deranged, psychotic loser. You wander around shooting completely innocent people at random.
- It's hard to imagine why anyone thought this was a good idea. For one thing, innocent people do not make good obstacles: They're unlikely to shoot back. They're not particularly threatening. Never mind the moral considerations; this makes for a dull game.
- Chadwick was wrong; games are not about violence. Games are about struggle. Because violence is the easiest way to create struggle, many games are violent--but far from all.
- Obstacles-of-violence, to coin a term, are compelling; the kill-or-be-killed instinct is wired into our hind-brain, part of our vertebrate heritage.
- If there's no interaction, it isn't a game; it's a puzzle.
- The current attack on video games echoes the irrational fears that fueled the hysteria surrounding comic books, pinball machines, and other benign youth culture phenomena.
- Furthermore, first-person shooter games actually benefit society because they allow players to express their violent impulses in ways that are not antisocial.

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A report of two research studies described in an April 2000 news release by the American Psychological Association (APA) states that playing violent video games like DOOM or MORTAL COMBAT can increase the player's aggressive feelings, thoughts and behaviors, both in laboratory settings and in real life.

18 Jul 06

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The games are such good training that adaptations are used by the armed forces and law enforcement agencies. Most users, however, are not soldiers but teenage boys.
The thesis of this article is that the First Amendment should function differently for children and for adults. For communication among adults, the amendment should be fully robust, perhaps even more so than under current law. Where children are concerned, however, the amendment should be significantly weaker.
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- Children should not have the same First Amendment rights as adults, argues Kevin W. Saunders in the following viewpoint.

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