reporters and stations alike are able to manipulate their audiences through a variety of techniques‚ to make them believe a representation of reality as opposed to the true fact. This is evident in the current affairs story "Video Game Violence" and the standard news story "Music Video Ban". These similar stories both originated from Channel Nine and represent violence in society’s youth today‚ stating children are at risk if exposed to such material. Through a selection of techniques‚ the audience is
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Violence can be defined in many ways but the most common and basic of these is commiting a harmful act to someone or something. When you typically think of violence‚ you probably think of the popular crimes that make the news like murder‚ rape‚ school shootings‚ bombings‚ suicide‚ and more things along those lines. However‚ technically by definition‚ bullying and other similar things could fit in among this definition‚ too. Just like the definition of violence has an open ended controversy‚ this
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Blockbuster went out of Business Blockbuster‚ the movie and video game superstore‚ has come to a close. It was established on October 19‚ 1985. In the beginning of this company’s journey‚ it reached a total of over 8‚000 stores and almost 60‚000 employees. The company was very popular‚ considering the low priced rentals or easy deliveries through the mail. However‚ over the years‚ there has been many obstacles standing in Blockbuster’s way that eventually ran them out of business due to bankruptcy
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The Negtive Effects of Video Gaming on Children Children don’t have to buy an expensive gaming system to play video games anymore‚ than can simply log onto the internet through their home computer or their handheld devices and they have an array of videogames to choose from. Every time a child pops a role playing videogame into their gaming console or logs onto the internet to play so called interactive video games‚ they enter a virtual world where there are no real
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Citation: * “Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression” from SerendipUpdate’s blog. Fri‚ 01/04/2008. <http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723> This site provided basic information about social problems merged with video gamers tendencies. It does raise some important issues about the effect of videogames in our society and status that may be useful for my Recommendation Report. It is a commercial site rather than an academic site‚ so it provides some internal opinions
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Cause and Effect Essay Video Game Dilemma “. . . a new study has found almost half of all "heavy gamers" are six- to seventeen-years-old” (Bennett). The current generation is one being born into the most technologically advanced civilization ever. While this is excellent from a scientific standpoint‚ it can have some serious negative effects on children growing up with this equipment. Video games are gradually becoming more popular with today’s youth. The rise in video game popularity has caused
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Effects of Violent Video Games on Children The impact of violent video games in the minds of young kids is becoming an issue. Although it is not being stated that kids playing violent video games is the leading cause of violence and aggression in society. Nowadays‚ it is part of a daily routine for a majority of kids to sit in front of the TV to play video games for many hours. Parents may not be aware of what kind of video games their kids play or which ones they buy them. Behavioral‚ social‚ emotional
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Violent video games have gone as far as allowing the brain to even let the thought of being a “shooter” in the real world seem acceptable. Eugene Beresin‚ had made additional research on the comparison between killings and the mental stability of relations with mass shooters. The NRA (National Rifle Association) blame the media for promoting violent video games and movies and then cited these phenomenon’s as the primary cause of mass violence (1). In his article he first compares how video games may
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The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games Video and computer games‚ like many popular‚ entertaining and addicting kid activities‚ are looked down upon by many parents as time-wasters‚ and worse‚ parents think that these games rot the brain. Also‚ violent video games are readily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some youth become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. But many scientists and psychologists find that video games actually have many benefits – the main one
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Amanda Hubbard 1/27/2014 Paper #2 Entertainment can come in many different forms. People today get their different forms of entertainment from the use of technology. With the use of technology people can watch tv‚ browse the internet‚ and play video games. People can also have social media and email loved ones that are far away to keep in touch with them. In some ways technology has been great for some people while on the other hand‚ some people still don’t like technology. Some people believe that technology gets in the way
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