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Panel - Community of Interest: Violence and Games
Moderators
Author, The Game Believes in You
Greg Toppo is is the author of The Game Believes In You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) and a journalist with nearly 25 years of experience, most of it covering education. A graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M., he taught in both...
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Speakers
Founding Editor and Executive Editor, Polygon
Brian Crecente is a founding editor and the executive editor for Polygon. The former editor-in-chief of Kotaku, Crecente was educated at the University of Maryland, College Park. He began his career as a journalist with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He covered crime and public safety...
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Director of the Interpersonal Research Lab, Villanova University
Dr. Patrick Markey is a Professor of Psychology, the Director of the Interpersonal Research Laboratory at Villanova University, and a former President of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. He is widely recognized as an expert on how violent video games affect our behavior...
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Dr. Schleifer has been working with teens, tweens, and their parents on gaming-related issues for over 15 years in private practice. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the long and short-term effects of video games on children, and is currently working on a book to help parents use video...
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Friday June 24, 2016 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
Room 105