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Rhen, Brad – Education Week, 2011
A new video game in which the player stalks and shoots fellow students and teachers in school settings is drawing fire from school district officials. "School Shooter: North American Tour 2012" is a first-person game that allows the player to move around a school and collect points by killing defenseless students and teachers. The game,…
Descriptors: Violence, Video Games, Popular Culture, Mass Media Effects
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Jordan, Amy B. – Future of Children, 2008
Amy Jordan addresses the need to balance the media industry's potentially important contributions to the healthy development of America's children against the consequences of excessive and age-inappropriate media exposure. Much of the philosophical tension regarding how much say the government should have about media content and delivery stems…
Descriptors: Video Games, Industry, Freedom of Speech, Federal Regulation