Video Gaming
July 27, 2005 ( politics )
The LA Times has a great opinion piece on the whole GTA "sex scene" and violent video games, and reminds us that over the past decade, which has sxeen the most violent and bloody video games ever, from Quake to GTA, teen violence has been dropping like a rock, and is lower than it has been since the Duke University's Child Well-Being Index has been tracking it (1975).
It makes a good argument that video games are not categorically different from other amusements, and in fact more mentally challenging than many traditional board games, TV, and so on, and less violence-inspiring than, say, football.
Posted by griffjon at July 27, 2005 03:07 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.GriffJon.com/journal/MT/mt-trackback.cgi/33
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)