computer games regulations

Ratings/ regulations

Regulations

• What is regulation• Reason for regulation – handout ‘Tanya Byron’/ moral panics/

case studies – do games make people violent?• Link to worksheet – PEGI• Reference to regulations (on box) age and content descriptors • Examples from games• Eeffects - audience theories• Iimpact? – Controversies (positive – negativity news value) /

sales commercial success/ critical success. • Info on this powerpoint• Reading

Grand Theft Auto 5

Cover, poster, Trailer & Gameplay

• Use for examples

• 3 each

• See sheet

The last of Us

Rating Tomb Raider

• Handout