The Privatization of Age Classification
Publication details
| Year: | 2018 |
| DOI: | 10.14361/9783839439340-008 |
| Issued: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Start Page: | 137 |
| End Page: | 148 |
| Editors: | Sörensen E. |
| Authors: | Thorhauge A.M. |
| Type: | Book chapter |
| Book title: | Cultures of Computer Game Concerns. The Child Across Families, Law, Science and Industry |
| Journal: | Cultures of Computer Game Concerns |
| Publisher: | transcript Verlag |
| Topics: | Content-related issues |
Abstract
Outcome
"this chapter is initiated with questioning age classification as a universal tool for regulating media content and protecting mi-nors. This is not to write off age classification altogether, but to emphasise that age classification applied indiscriminately and irrespectively of the genre and con-text of communication, may end up being in conflict with basic democratic values such as the free democratic deliberation open to all." (p. 145)