In the past 20 years society has fallen victim to mass murders perpetrated by children, even though overall crime is down. In order to better understand this; social scientists are conducting studies on whether violent video games contribute to this cycle of violence or are they just a tragic coincidence. In “violent Video Games: Dogma, Fear, and Pseudoscience” Christopher Ferguson argues that there is no significant contribution to video game violence and the up-tick in youth violence seen today. However, David Grossmann in “Trained to kill (children who kill)” argues that video game violence not only contributes, but also trains children how to…
Becoming an independent country from being colonized by another country happened throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and Vietnam gained their independence along with many others. On September 2, 1945, Vietnam came out from being under the rule of France and formed a new country. However, the new independence did not mean that it was a united country just yet. The north and south halves of the country because two separate entities, both vying for control of the other half. The northern half of Vietnam became the communist ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam, while the southern half was the half backed by western countries and was the Republic of South Vietnam.…
Dr. Strasburger from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine says that there were normally four factors that applied to school shooters. One, they had been abused or bullied. Two, they had a mental illness. Three, they were socially isolated. And four, that they had been playing violent video games. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza played video games, but unlike violent video game he was playing a Japan favorite Dance Dance revolution at local a movie theatre. A manager at the movie theatre say’s that he would get so into the game that he would whip himself into a frenzy and the manager would need to unplug the machine just to get him to leave. In the 1999 Columbine High school shooting, the shooter's mothers blamed violent video games as the source of their violence but later to learn that home videos made by the shooter’s show that they were bullied and abused by the jocks at school and wanted to put it to a stop. Whether there is a mass shooting in the United States, it doesn’t take long before pundits suggests violent video games might be to…
According to the article “Do Video Games Kill?” author, Karen Sternheimer, brings up an interesting and controversial subject about video games. “If we want to understand why young people, particularly middle class or other stable environments, become homicidal, we need to look beyond the games they play.” Sternheimer starts her article by giving an example of the video game “Doom” that became a target for critics. Shooting at the schools in Kentucky, Oregon, and Colorado were most probably caused by video games. The author sticks to this explanation because of many influential opinions from politicians, news, and different groups of people. Media is providing information to the public about shooters being the ones who are playing video games.…
In his article “Violent Video Games and Other Media Violence,” Dr. Craig A. Anderson, Iowa State University’s Director for the Study of Violence and cited expert on all things related to violence as it coincides with media, attacks violent video games and television for causing an increase in violence amongst young people. Throughout his article Anderson draws legitimacy from psychological studies intended to find scientific truth in debates regarding violent video games and their relationship with the psyche of impressionable youths. Anderson treats the article as more of a presentation of facts than an actual argument, allowing the findings to speak for themselves.…
Mass shootings have risen to a high percentage in recent years in America; there have been more than two hundred mass shootings in the United States since the year 2006. Some of these shooters have certain similarities with each other such as being introduced to certain types of violent video games. Many of these games are believed to have certain negative effects on children who play these games; this issue has been around for over a decade on whether or not these games are too violent for younger audiences. Parents have become concerned with the games that are being manufactured today, and believe these games may lead to criminal behavior for children who play violent games. However, we do not have enough proven evidence that violent media…
In 2000 the FBI issued a report on school rampage shootings, finding that their rarity prohibits the construction of a useful profile of a "typical" shooter. In the absence of a simple explanation, the public symbolically linked these rare and complex events to the shooters' alleged interest in video games, finding in them a catchall explanation for what seemed unexplainable--the white, middle-class school shooter. However, the concern about video games is out of proportion to their actual threat.…
Video games have always been a great landmark in the history of the human race and how great and advanced they’ve become since their creation. Video games also have their own timeline and certain points in time in which major controversy has arisen. Newscasters have made full reports on how video games are the major contributor to thoughts and actions of violence in the minds of all who have purchased them, either being adults and all the way down to children of all ages. Even though newscasters and reporters may be seen as respected and credible sources this topic has always pinned video games as the culprit but they were never the ones to blame.…
Sheese, B. E., & Graziano, W. G. (2005). Deciding to defect: the effects of video-game violence on cooperative behavior. Psychological Science 16(5): 354-357.…
There have been many arguments that have been brought up arguing that violent video games are making kids more violent. Some arguments go as far as saying all video games are making kids more violent. However, the argument can go both ways. People have brought up that video games help kids with hand eye coordination and allow them to vent their frustrations. The earliest videogame has been around since 1958, and this game was a simple game that had no human and no violence in it. As technology became more advanced the videogames became more violent. Starting with a ball bouncing right and left in a videogame called Tennis for Two and ending with an incredibly violent video game that encourages killing other humans in Manhunt 2. There has been much research done on violent video games and their effects on kids, but no outcome has been decided yet.…
Hicks, Marybeth. "HICKS: Violent Video Games Create Unhealthy Emotions." TheWashingtonTimes.com. The Washington Times LLC, 30 Apr. 2013. Web. 6 May 2013. .…
“If video games do increase violent tendencies outside the laboratory, the explosion of gaming over the past decade from 3.2 billion in sales in 1995 to $7 billion in 2003, according to industry figures, would suggest a parallel trend in youth violence. Instead, youth violence has been decreasing.” (Hoerrner 49). A video game is a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or display. Violence is behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Some video games have violent and mature content in them. People claim that the violence in video games can cause aggression in people. Others claim that the violence in video games has nothing to do with aggression in people. It is also argued that violence in video games has nothing to do with the rage already existing inside of people. Video games do not cause violence because gamers understand that video games are not real, that video games release daily frustration and are inspiring.…
4. The problem there in hand doesn’t lie within the parameters of violent video games, it lies with parenting and other unforeseen issues.…
While many murderers have played violent video games, people can not blame the actions of those murderers on video games because people do not have enough evidence to prove that video games cause people to kill. Scientists never seem to factor in social rejection, feelings of alienation or depression into their studies and reporters always seem to focus on whether or not the culprit played video games instead of focusing on the problems the culprit may have mentally. In her article, “Do Video Games Kill”, Karen Sternheimer says that media tries to decontextualize violence and that poverty, rough neighborhoods and family violence are not included in research often. A lot of times, mental illness is overlooked too (Sternheimer 3). This…
For years people have blamed violent video games for violent behavior problems with white youth. In fact, many journalist compared young school mass shooters to how often they play a certain video game. In Karen Sternheimer's "Do Video Games Kill?” She discusses one game in particular, which is the video game “Doom”. “Doom” was a shooting video game “...released in 1993...”(214) and many politicians brought up “Doom” while discussing mass school shooters at the time. However these…