Media Magazine Research

Today in order to make sure that I could find plenty of research I looked through the Media Magazine that my college has archived since September 2002. 

September 2003 Media Magazine

Article name: Why should we study digital games?

Writer: Andrew Burn, Diane Carr and Gareth Schott

Are games a 'good thing' or a 'bad influence'?

Quotes: 'They are also those that are concerned by the notion that games negatively affect their users. Games have been vilified in the popular press for their supposed violence. Much of the apparent evidence for the link is is founded on poorly conceived or simplistic research methods, generally combined with a very narrow understanding of what constitutes play, or a game, or violence. There is no compelling reason to single games out as having a greater 'influence' than television, for example. "

I also found a link to a forum website that lets children have a few- I also used the links down the right hand side, I found this by initially going to http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk