Age Rating Essay

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Age-based rating system is where any media shown in public or internet is rated based on a certain group of age. In each country, they have their own board of classification for movies, television shows or video games. Even though age rating may help a person to choose on what movies are suitable for them, but not all use the age rating given wisely. For example, two students who were a fanatic of a video game called “Doom” killed 12 fellow students and a teacher in 1999. Age rating should not be subjected to media content because it does not meet the parents’ expectation, it only focuses on the amount of violence and it attracts the children from what they are shield from. The major problem for age-based rating is it does not meet the parents’ …show more content…

The children are more curious to the age rating just because they were restricted from watching the movies. As for content based rating, it simply describes the content, not recommendation for people. Based on the research conducted by Cantor (et al) with children from age 5-15 which they received a booklet resembled a TV guide. The children were more interested in PG-13 or R-rated movies and they were suddenly not interested when the movie is rated G. They also found that the younger children who were heavy viewers of television were also showing a lot of interest when they found out the television show was rated restrictive. Cantor et al also made another research to show fairness and they found that the content indicators do not influence the children’s interest in watching the movie. In contrast, majority of the parents used the TV system rating and more than half believed that it is useful for video games, Mr. Jurgen Freund , Modulum chief executive said that, by rating the video games with a mature content was seen to be promoting the video game rather than stopping the underage from buying. In general, age rating does influence the children on any media content. In contrast, majority of the parents used the TV system rating and more than half believed that it is

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