Rating Electronic Games: Violence Is in the Eye of the Beholder.

Funk, Jeanne B.; Flores, Geysa; Buchman, Debra; Germann, Julie N.

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ERIC Number: EJ585021

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Publication Date: 1999

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Rating Electronic Games: Violence Is in the Eye of the Beholder.

Funk, Jeanne B.; Flores, Geysa; Buchman, Debra; Germann, Julie N.

Youth & Society, v30 n3 p283-312 Mar 1999

Compared commercial ratings of electronic games with ratings by 201 fourth graders. There was general agreement for games with obviously nonviolent or very violent content, but much more disagreement about the violence in cartoon-type games. Recommends including consumer perceptions in a rating system. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cartoons, Computer Games, Consumer Protection, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Student Attitudes, Violence

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Language: English

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Note: Research supported in part by a University of Toledo Research Awards and Fellowship Program grant.