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By: Informationally Overloaded » Blog Archive » Where do I fit?

Informationally Overloaded » Blog Archive » Where do I fit? — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:56:56 +0000

[...] I’ll try and summarise but really you should go read the posts in question. Somehow from this post about a film trailer and a few (unrelated as it turns out) websites, my dearest dahling readers [...]

By: Tabula Rasa » Creature Feature

Tabula Rasa » Creature Feature — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:21:35 +0000

[...] Labs who are probably creaming themselves with the free publicity they’re getting). Even Gordon blogged about it (and provoked an entirely unrelated discussion that extended to over 30 comments). And yes, the [...]

By: Informationally Overloaded » Blog Archive » Weekender

Informationally Overloaded » Blog Archive » Weekender — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:42:40 +0000

[...] see the discussion that, somehow, I kicked off last week is still going on, and I’ve got some more thoughts on that myself. As for the rest of this week, well I’m [...]

By: Blue Witch

Blue Witch — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:46 +0000

Dragon – thanks for the reference, I shall get my sources working on procuring a paer copy. Thanks too for taking the trouble to analyse the chart – I’d just say that 2/3 of the cured ‘addicts’ I mentioned were teenage girl Sims addicts… one of them, as a last resort, had to be referred to an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit. I think that one is in the pipeline for one of the UK professional journals in that area as I read and commented on a first draft a few months back.

I deplore and avoid violence of any type – so my tolerance is way lower than most people’s. I think it’s a very complex area to research with any degree of reliability and validity as there are so many independent variables. But interesting discussion, thanks.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:15:35 +0000

The study I was referring to (which I will also say has to be seen in the light of only studying one type of game, namely fantasy) was “Internet Fantasy Violence: A Test of Aggression in an Online Game. Dmitri Williams & Marko Skoric Communication Monographs, June 2005.” No link.

And yes, I know that there are counter studies although, to date, I don’t believe any of them have examined the long term effects of the some of the games that are most named in relation to this subject.

I’m not even going to get started on the subject of addiction to video games.

I believe that video games today are villified in exactly the same way that television, pop music and comic books were in decades past. All of them were accused of lowering moral standards and corrupting the youth.