| Bibliography I used the Internet to find most of my information. All the websites listed below were accessed between December 2004 and January 2005. www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/getfresh/2003/08/teenagers_matt.shtmlMatt Mulligan is a teenager who thinks adults have got it completely wrong about teenagers. In this article he explains why. BBC website, March 2001 Television www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/TV.html A collection of articles about the impact of television on children’s performance at school produced by The National Literacy Trust website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1563565.stm ‘Parents ‘lose control’ of children’s viewing’, BBC News, 26 September 2001 ‘Striking a balance – the control of children’s media consumption’, BBC Editorial Policy Briefing Note, published 23 September 2002 (This gave me ideas for questions my survey.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/3963953.stm ‘Television creates young loners’, BBC News, 29 October 2004 (This is a 3 minute video. After I’d watched it I read all the comments that people had emailed in. Most people seemed to disagree or thought it’s not surprising that kids spend so long in front of the TV or playing computer games since it isn’t safe for them to play outside.) http://www.ci.appstate.edu/programs/edmedia/medialit/ml_adolescents2.html “Media Literacy and Adolescents: Teenagers & Screenagers”, by David M. Considine,The Journal of Adolescent Health, August 2000 Computer/video games http://www.tes.co.uk/section/story/?story_id=387733 Computer games, Times Educational Supplement, 5 December 2003 (This summarises the issues and looks at both sides of the argument. It gave me some ideas for database queries.) http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20040114/Feature1.asp ‘The violent side of video games’, by Emily Sohn, Science News for Kids, 14 January 2004 http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20040121/Feature1.asp ‘What video games can teach us’, by Emily Sohn, Science News for Kids, 21 January 2004 (These two articles summarise the arguments for and against computer games. They are written for teenagers. I found them a lot easier to understand than some of the other information I found.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4087079.stm ‘Parents face video game lessons’, BBC News, 10 December 2004 (There’s a good internet safety quiz and information about gaming for girls.) Violent computer games www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000002D0D2.htm ‘Videos – only a game?’, article by Howard Fienberg, spiked website, May 2001 http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=399359'Computer game hysteria', article by Gillian Davies, Times Educational Supplement, 6 August 2004 http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/violence ‘Media Violence & Children at Home’, American Psychological Societyhttp://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/violence.htm ‘Caution Children at Play:The truth about violent youth and video games’, Game Evolution website Health issues related to playing computer games www.rospa.com/safetyeducation/advice/computers.htm ‘Computer safety’, RoSPA, 2004 http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7332/301/a ‘Hand–arm vibration syndrome caused by using vibrating computer games’, letter in British Medical Journal, 2 February 2002. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7346/1159 ‘Playing video games seems to have few serious acute adverse effects on health’, letter in British Medical Journal, 11 May 2002. Computer games can help children to learn http://education.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5048386-08699,00.html ‘Computer games can help children learn’, article by Lucy Ward, The Guardian, 27 October 2004 http://education.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5063369-113778,00.html ‘Let the games begin’, article by Sean Dodson, The Guardian, 16 November 2004 http://education.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5063795-108699,00.html ‘Welcome to play school’, article by Heather McLean, Guardian Unlimited, 16 November 2004 www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=2826 Computer Games in Education project. Becta (2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1879019.stm ‘Video games stimulate learning’, BBC News, 18 Mar 2002 ‘The use of computer and video games for learning. A review of the literature.’ by Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith, published by the Learning and Skills Development Agency, 2004, ISBN 1-85338-904-8‘The effects of computer games on young children – a review of the research’ by Jessica Harris, published by the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate Communications Development Unit, 2001 Report on the Educational use of Games: An Exploration by TEEM of the contribution which games can make to the education process’, A Mcfarlane, A Sparrowhawk and Y Heald, published by the Department for Education and Skills, March 2002 Safe gaming http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_1825000/1825691.stm ‘Children risk health damage from gaming’, BBC Newsround, 17 February 2002 http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/support/xbox360/familysettings/healthygamingguide.htm Xbox Healthy Gaming Guide |