More fun, more risk? Conference Documentation
This is the online documentation of the European expert conference "More Fun, More Risk? Digital Games as a Challenge for the Protection of Minors" 16th & 17th October 2008, Berlin
Thursday, 16th October 2008
Keynotes
Block 1: Contents in Video Games Relevant to the Issue of Protection of Minors
Stream "Law & Regulation" (Chair: Peggy Valcke)
- Alexander Scheuer:
"The Potential of Regulatory Concepts: Command and Control, Self Regulation and Regulated Self-regulation in the Field of Youth Protection" - Markus Wiemker:
"Sex, Drugs and Violence: What Content Does Youth Protection and Society Look at in Games?" - Corinna
Bochmann:
"Media on the 'Index' – Strictly Forbidden for Minors: The Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons and Its Practical Work" - Panel Discussion
mit Sharon McLaughlin, Ingrid Möller, Jörg Müller-Lietzkow:
"Regulating Games on the Ground of Social Sciences and Values – a Lvl 60 Quest Itself?"
Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy" (Chair: Maria von Salisch)
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Christoph Klimmt:
"Protection of Minors: Explicit and Implicit Violence" - Elly A. Konijn:
"I Wish I Were a Warrior: The Role of Wishful Identification" - Niklas Ravaja:
"Physiological Impact of Video Games" - Barbara Krahé:
"Media Violence Exposure and Aggression in Childhood and Adolescence"
Block 2: Age Classifications and Labels
Stream "Law & Regulation" (Chair: Tim Suter)
- Patrice Chazerand:
"PEGI as a European System in the Context of National Idiosyncrasies" - David Austin, Anne Lind, António Xavier, Jürgen Hilse:
"Policy Presentations: Youth Media Protection in Practice": UK, FI, PT, D - Holger Albrich:
"On Labels and Age Brackets: Ups and Downs in Game Classifications" - Panel
Diskussion mit Anne Lind, Jürgen Schattmann,
David Cooke, Wim Bekkers, Patrice Chazerand, Antonio Xavier:
"So Many Games, so Little Time: What System to Choose to Implement a Classification Standard?"
Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy" (Chair: Maria von Salisch)
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Peter Nikken:
"Parental Mediation and Use of Classification Labels" - Peter Roelofsma:
"Do Age and Violent Content Labels Render Video Games a Forbidden Fruit for Young People?" - Kevin Durkin:
"Label the Good Ones: Positive Content in Video Games" - Panel
Diskussion mit Peter Nikken,
Thorsten Quandt, Kevin Durkin, Elly A. Konijn, Ulrike Pilarczyk:
"Alternatives to the Age Classification?"
Presentation of First Results of the Streams
Friday, 17th October 2008
Block 3: Online Games and the Challenges of Convergence
Stream "Law & Regulation" (Chair: Tim Suter)
- Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici:
"Internet Regulation and Online Games: How Regulation Concepts Fit and Where the Track Leads" - Olaf
Wolters:
"Current Challenges for the Protection of Minors in Games: User-Generated Content, Living Virtual Worlds, Age Verification" - Niva Elkin-Koren:
"Governance of Harmful Online Content by Intermediaries and Online Platforms" - Panel
Diskussion mit
Patrice Chazerand, Wolfgang Schulz, François Lhémery, Laurent Baup,
Malte Behrmann, Verena Weigand:
"Do We Need an Online Game-Specific Youth Protection?"
Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy" (Chair: Mark Griffiths)
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Mark Griffiths:
"Psychology of Video Gaming – First It Was Just Fun, Then It Became an Addiction" - Jeroen Lemmens:
"New Ways to Measure Online Addiction" - Karla Misek-Schneider:
"Positive Effects of Online-Games"
Block 4: Europe and the Member States
Stream "Law & Regulation" (Chair: Peggy Valcke)
- Maja Cappello:
"Europe and Youth Media Protection: Regulatory Competences and the Question for National Leeways" - Wim Bekkers:
"Classification in National and International Contexts – The NICAM Experience" - Marc
Liesching:
"Is There a Next Level of Youth Protection in European Networks – National Values, Global Markets and European Community" - Peggy Valcke:
Stream "Law & Regulation" - Summary and Discussion of the Results
Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy" (Chair: Uwe Hasebrink)
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Anu Mustonen:
"Reception of Media Violence. Classification in Films and Games – What's Different, What Can Be Transferred?" - Uwe Hasebrink:
"EUKidsOnline: Experiences from a European Research Network" - André Melzer:
Media and Youth Protection in Luxembourg. Usage - Regulation - Prevention - Panel
Diskussion mit
Anu Mustonen, Jörg Müller-Lietzkow, André Melzer:
"European Approaches to Convergence"; Summary and Discussion of the Results of Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy"
Results
- Peggy Valcke and Tim Suter:
Stream "Law & Regulation" - Presentation and Discussion of the Results - Mark Griffiths and Uwe Hasebrink:
Stream "Usage, Effects & Literacy" - Presentation and Discussion of the Results - Chairs
and Plenum:
Interdisciplinary Discussion of the Overall Outcome – Future Paths for Research, Literacy Education and Policies