Video Game Addiction in Teenagers There are many stages in life which everyone has to encounter and the teenage stage is probably one of the most important stages of a person’s life. During your teen years you really learn about what kind of person you are and what kind of person you want to be. Do you want to be the type of teen who stays home all day and play video games alone or go and hang out with your friends? This is where video game addiction comes into play. Some teenagers would rather
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In the early ages of video gaming‚ males were predominantly targeted by game companies‚ which resulted in games that were designed for mostly heterosexual males (indie games were created and variations of mainstream games‚ but they were not profound and didn’t become well known). Within the past decade‚ this stereotypical idea has diminished‚ and females currently represent almost half of the gaming demographic‚ about 46% to be exact. Gaming holds a greater significance than we thought‚ which is
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Violent Video Games and Their Effects on Youth and Adolescents Stephanie Keith Research Writing / Com 220 July 18‚ 2010 Maisah Robinson Violent Video Games and Their Effects on Children and Adolescents Why all the violence? Are we endorsing violence through media? With the violence of video games and other media‚ are children more prone to violent behavior? While some psychologists and researchers argue that it has not been proven that violent behavior in children and
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Content-based Video Tagging for Online Video Portals∗ Adrian Ulges1 ‚ Christian Schulze2 ‚ Daniel Keysers2 ‚ Thomas M. Breuel1 1 University 2 German of Kaiserslautern‚ Germany Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)‚ Kaiserslautern {a ulges‚tmb}@informatik.uni-kl.de‚ {christian.schulze‚daniel.keysers}@dfki.de Abstract Despite the increasing economic impact of the online video market‚ search in commercial video databases is still mostly based on user-generated meta-data
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Video games in the last few decades have turned from a niche market into something that dominates the entertainment industry. According to the Entertainment Software Association‚ 42% of Americans played video games for 3 or more hours per week in 2015. With such widespread usage‚ parents and researchers alike are trying to discover the impact that these virtual realities can have. First-person shooter games‚ one of the most popular subgenres of video games‚ have become a highly politicized and controversial
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The Effects of Video Games on Children Video games have always been under constant scrutiny by parents‚ doctors‚ and the media‚ just like anything in history that has had a profound impact on society‚ especially on children. Video games became an immediate attraction since the moment they were introduced into the world. The games can allow the player to become any character they could ever dream of‚ whether the character is from their favorite sport or from their favorite movie. It allows a child’s
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addictions; more specifically‚ video game addiction. This addiction is one of the growing worries among children and adults. There is now a new method of treatment called video game detox. There is one treatment centre in Amsterdam which employs this method to their subjects. They are forced to quit gaming cold turkey. They start on this treatment by admitting that they are incapable over their addiction. Keith Bakker from Smith & Jones Addiction Consultants said that video games are now conquering lives
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Mecca 1 The American educational system has been hindered by video games. If you look around you‚ you will realize that video games are everywhere. From Ipods‚ to smart phones‚ televisions‚ to even some of our printers now have games. Our generation is called the “Joystick Generation”‚ and for good reason too. Everyone is plugged in and no one more so than America’s youth. To put the impact of the “Joystick Generation” into perspective‚ take into account that software sales spiked twenty-eight
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Industry background The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development‚ marketing and sale of video and computer games. It includes video game consoles‚ game software‚ handheld devices‚ mobile games and online games. The video gaming industry has been growing exponentially in recent years. The growth is expected to leap-frog in the future. Following chart shows the projected market share by 2010 of different segment
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Introduction The video game industry is very broad in scope and continuously growing at a rapid pace (Exhibit 1) with billions of dollars to be made. Although the large potential for growth cushions rivalry amongst the existing competitors in this industry‚ video game companies constantly focus on differentiating their products and seize new opportunities to gain and secure their customers loyalty in order to continue in the business. Most of these new opportunities are created through advancements
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