Violent Video Games Rhetorical Analysis
In Michael Britt’s video podcast, Violent Video Games-What Does the Research Say? (2010), he discusses two studies that analyze the effects violent video games can have on individuals. The first article that was discussed claimed that violent video games lead to the desensitization to real-life violence (Carnagey, Anderson, & Bushman, 2007). Whereas, research conducted by Bosche (2009), used Carnagey et al., (2007) desensitization hypothesis that states violent content may elicit negative responses and inhibitions that would thereby interfere with gaming performance, to suggest that when individuals play violent video games they have an increase in positive emotions. Bosche (2009) claims the reason for such increases in positive emotions stems