Jennifer Burek Pierce
Autor de Sex, Brains, and Video Games
Sobre El Autor
Jennifer Burek Pierce is associate professor of library and information science at the University of lowa. She is author of What Adolescents Ought to Know. Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America. She lives and writes in the Midwest.
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I skipped over a lot of the chapter on teen brain development (it's nothing new; just a rehash of all the research done to date) but a lot of what's here seems either obvious (teens play video games! teens may be prone to risky behavior!) or inaccurate (parents should avoid buying their teens violent first-person-shooter games, sometimes called "role playing games," which, no, not really).
Those who can, do. This author teaches classes in children's and teen resources at the U of Iowa's library school. Her pop-culture references are out-of-date (Weetzie Bat, anyone?) and one gets the impression she hasn't actually interacted with real teens in at least ten years. If you've met a teenager--any teenager--within the last decade, you probably don't need to spend the time reading this book.… (más)