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AU Politician Fears Technology

By pete_gallagher

No, not the soon to be ex-South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, but Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor (pictured).

The Labor Party member, speaking at a Sydney conference put on by the Australian Council on Children and the Media and Macquarie University, which examined the impact of violence and sexualized media on children, expressed concern over motion-sensing controls for videogames, saying, 'Computer game manufacturers encourage users to put down their control pads and participate physically in a game through motion-sensing technology.'

This led O'Connor to proclaim:

These interactive features are set to increase the impact of the material being enjoyed by consumers.

 

We need to consider how increased interactivity will impact on children and what this means for content regulation.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).

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