Welcome to the solstice edition of Outside the Screen! (Whether it’s the summer or the winter one, we’ll leave it up to you, but from us a big hint: brrrrr!)
In this week’s edition of Paper Round we look at what can happen to your body when you spend a lot of time on videogames. The research in the paper is about the risk factors for things like neck pain and hand pain, but Kim has some stories from his own practice, too.
The movie review is about everybody’s favourite cartoon bee - a movie suitable for all but the very youngest children - and Liz takes us through some of the issues that are arising in the review of the Online Safety Act. (Watch this space for a note linking to the submissions she has just completed (yes, she did get it all done in time!))
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Show notes
Leung et al paper: Janni Leung, John B. Saunders, Daniel Stjepanovic, Calvert Tisdale, Caitlin McClure-Thomas, Jason Connor, Matthew Gullo, Andrew P. Wood and Gary Chung Kai Chan, ‘Extended hours of video game play and negative physical symptoms and pain’ (2024) 155 Computers in Human Behavior 108181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108181
Maya the Bee: The Honey Games review: https://childrenandmedia.org.au/movie-reviews/movies/maya-the-bee-the-honey-games
Maya the Bee: The Honey Games availability in Australia: https://www.flicks.com.au/movie/maya-the-bee-the-honey-games/
Zooming Out details: Review of Online Safety Act https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/statutory-review-online-safety-act-2021; and see our Episode 12 here
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Ep 39: Physical effects of extended gaming, Maya the Bee and the Online Safety Act under review