Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Video Games and Violence Articles

Anderson, C. A., Berkowitz, L., Donnerstein, E., Huesmann, L. R., Johnson, J. D., Linz, D., et al. (2003). The influence of media violence on youth. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 4(3), 81-110.
Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2001). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. Psychological Science, 12(5), 353-359.
Bertolini, R. & Nissim, S. (2002). Video games and children.s imagination. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 28(3), 305-325.
Calvert, C. (2002). Violence, video games, and a voice of reason: Judge Posner to the defense of kids. culture and the First Amendment. The San Diego Law Review, 39(1), 1-30.
Jones, G. (2001). Killing monsters: Why children need fantasy, super heroes, and make-believe violence. New York: Basic Books.
Nature. (2003, July 24). A calm view of video violence. Nature, 424, 355.
PBS. (2003). PBS parents guide to children and media: video games, grade schoolers. PBS Website. Retrieved Oct. 9, 2004, from http://www.pbs.org/parents/ issuesadvice/childrenandmedia/videogames-grade.html
Poole, S. (2000). Trigger happy: Video games and the entertainment revolution. New York: Arcade Publishing.
Salen, K., & Zimmerman, E. (2004). Rules of play: Game design fundamentals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sherry, J. L. (2001). The effects of violent video games on aggression: A meta-analysis. Human Communication Research, 27(3), 409-431. Singer, J. (1994). The scientific foundations of play therapy. In J.
Hellendoorn, R. van der Kooij, & B. Sutton-Smith (Eds.), Play and intervention (pp. 27-38). Albany, NY: State U. of New York P.
Squire, K. (2002). Cultural framing of computer/video games. Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, 2(1). Retrieved July 1, 2004, from http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/squire/
Sutton-Smith, B. (1997). The Ambiguity of Play. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP.
Sutton-Smith, B. (1986). Toys as culture. New York: Gardner Press.
Valkenburg, M. (2004). Children.s responses to the screen: A media psychological approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.