This is cool. While his main interest is comic books, Gerard Jones, authour of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence was asked to present a lecture at the Montreal International Game Summit (with regard to computer game violence). After his lecture, he was interviewed by the Electric Playground and said the following:
Any time you have a new medium or new style of entertainment come out, there will be an explosion of anxiety for the people that don’t know it.
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It’s the same thing with Dungeons & Dragons at the end of the 70s, and Gangster Rap at the end of the 80s. A lot of people are just sort of primed to see each new mass cultural phenomenon as a threat. Any time it’s new, there will be a period of people asking, “What is this doing to us? Is this the end of the world?”
Link to full article can be found HERE. Book title (above) links to Amazon.com
What's kind of funny is that Amazon lists Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Dave Grossman as a good companion book to Killing Monsters...
What's kind of funny is that Amazon lists Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Dave Grossman as a good companion book to Killing Monsters...
Well, if you were writing a paper about the debate, it's a great suggestion. You'd have both sides of the argument...