Post by leunas on Mar 3, 2007 4:58:12 GMT -5
A study by University of Southern California sociologist Karen Sternheimer, who has been researching the topic of video game violence since 1999, said blaming video games for youth violence fails to take into account other major factors.
No. 5h1t.
Read more about the paper on Reuters, the paper itself will be published in the American Sociological Association's Contexts magazine, but will also hopefully get some more coverage elsewhere.
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No. 5h1t.
Quote:"A symphony of events controls violence," said Sternheimer, who began her research after some experts blamed the video game "Doom" for the gun rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado in which two students killed 13 people and then themselves.
"It was a tragic and, very fortunately, rare event and it was discouraging to see that the conversation often started and stopped at video games."
Read more about the paper on Reuters, the paper itself will be published in the American Sociological Association's Contexts magazine, but will also hopefully get some more coverage elsewhere.
forums.idlethumbs.net/showthread.php?p=73777