Tue 26 Jul 2005
A few recent articles that help take the edge off…
- “Chasing the dream” from The Economist
- “Pop Culture Pariah” by John Davison, 1up.com
- “Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over” by Steven Johnson (author of Everything Bad Is Good For You)
- “There’s Sex In My Violence! What’s this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent ‘Grand Theft Auto’? I am outraged!” by Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
- “The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games” at Game Revolution
- “First Person: Banging the drums - Hillary Clinton’s crusade against video-game violence is another feel-good charade” by Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards (professors of communications and law at Pennsylvania State University and co-directors of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment)
- “Ratings soothe parents, but fail to protect kids - Cataloging curses and flashes of flesh gives adults a false sense of comfort” by Joel Stein
- “Question of the Week Responses: Game Ratings and Government Regulation?” at Gamasutra
- “Parents: the ultimate rating system” by Angie Bergh, Oregon State Daily Barometer
July 27th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
I notice no one has brought up the McCarthy-era grandstanding of Fredrick Wertham, “The Seduction of the Innocent,” and the history of the Comics Code . . .
July 28th, 2005 at 11:58 am
I did: http://acidforblood.blogspot.com/2005/06/thoughts-on-video-game-legislation.html
July 28th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
Here’s another (well, I’m not sure it’s voice of reason) but
http://greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005-07-28.htm