Gareth Schott is Senior Lecturer in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has been an active writer and researcher in the field of game studies since its inception in 2001. Schott is the co-author of Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play (2006), a major output from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) funded study conducted at the Institute of Education, University of London with colleagues David Buckingham, Andrew Burn and Diane Carr.

Gareth Schott's examination of the debates surrounding violent video games presents an important and fresh perspective on this contentious issue. Given the moral panic surrounding games, scholars have increasingly been calling for more sociological examinations of the phenomenology of media panics and media research itself. Schott's work represents a cogent effort in this regard that should be required reading of all students and scholars of media effects.

• PrefaceChapter 1 - Violent Games / Game ViolenceChapter 2 - Violent Media as a Political ConceptionChapter 3 - Games as ArtificeChapter 4 - Subjective RealismChapter 5 - Performative Inquiry,Intent and AwarenessChapter 6 - The Activation of ViolenceChapter 7 - The Aestheticisation of ViolenceChapter 8 - Undeniable Content and Serious IntentChapter 9 - Adopting a Configurative SensibilityBibliographyIndex

Gareth Schott is Senior Lecturer in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has been an active writer and researcher in the field of game studies since its inception in 2001. Schott is the co-author of Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play (2006), a major output from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) funded study conducted at the Institute of Education, University of London with colleagues David Buckingham, Andrew Burn and Diane Carr.

Gareth Schott's examination of the debates surrounding violent video games presents an important and fresh perspective on this contentious issue. Given the moral panic surrounding games, scholars have increasingly been calling for more sociological examinations of the phenomenology of media panics and media research itself. Schott's work represents a cogent effort in this regard that should be required reading of all students and scholars of media effects.

• PrefaceChapter 1 - Violent Games / Game ViolenceChapter 2 - Violent Media as a Political ConceptionChapter 3 - Games as ArtificeChapter 4 - Subjective RealismChapter 5 - Performative Inquiry,Intent and AwarenessChapter 6 - The Activation of ViolenceChapter 7 - The Aestheticisation of ViolenceChapter 8 - Undeniable Content and Serious IntentChapter 9 - Adopting a Configurative SensibilityBibliographyIndex