Institute Reports

MediaWise Video Game Report Cards Here you will find the most current Report Card, as well as past Report Cards. The National Summit on Video Games 2006, Youth and Public Policy brought together leading experts on video game effects research, ratings accuracy and effectiveness, public health and youth advocacy. Media Violence Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers (2005, April (PDF) Media violence as a risk factor for children: A longitudinal study (PDF, 123KB) What Goes In Must Come Out: Children's Media Violence Consumption at Home and Aggressive Behaviors at School (2002, August) The Effects of Violent Video Game Habits on Adolescent Hostility, Aggressive Behaviors, and School Performance (2004) - (PDF 189KB) Media Habits A normative study of family media habits (PDF, 172KB) MediaQuotient® report on media habits of today's children. (HTML, ~20 KB) Media Ratings A Validity Test of Movie, Television, and Video-Game Ratings (PDF, 174 KB) Pediatrics, 107, 1302-1308. Copyright 2001 by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Parents Rate the TV Ratings (PDF, 177 KB) Music Content Analysis of Teen Oriented Music (PDF, 154 KB)

Other Institute Resources

• Examining the effects of video games from a psychological perspective: Focus on violent games and a new synthesis
• Fact Sheets on topics from Children and Advertising to MTV.
• Also in this section is a list of web resources for parents, educators, and kids.

Other Reports

Title	Date	Author-Organization	Description
Kids & Media @ The New Millennium	November 1999	Roberts, Foehr, Rideout, Brodie	The study, based on a nationally representative sample of more than 3,000 children ages 2 -18, shows how much time kids spend watching TV and movies, using computers, playing video games, listening to music, and reading.

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