Posts tagged harvard

New book seeks to clear up game violence debate

by Kyle Orland (Mar 7th 2008 2:00AM)

It's not hard to find studies and media reports both for and against the damning effects of video game violence on children, but a new book coming out in April seems to be attempting to forge a new, more reasonable middle ground in the debate. Grand Theft Childhood is based on a June 2007 study in ...

Harvard club gets all snooty about games

by Kyle Orland (Apr 10th 2007 6:59PM)

The Harvard Crimson has the story about the recently created Harvard Interactive Media Group, a fancy-sounding club that makes talking about video games into a legitimate extracurricular gathering as only the Ivy League can. Member Alexander Li says the group started simply as a way to find more ...

104 violent deaths per hour in M-rated games, says Harvard study

by James Ransom-Wiley (Apr 5th 2006 2:25PM)

A group of Harvard brainiacs recently put together a study that attempted to quantify violence, blood, sex, profanity, drugs, and gambling in M-rated games. To do this, the grad students compiled a database of M-rated games, selected a random sample, played each game for at least one hour, and ...