MCOM220-14A Assignment: 1 Do Video Games Cause Violence? Introduction: Video games and violence in the media for the past twenty years (specifically America) have always put video games as the scapegoat to blame whenever a series of tragic homicides occur. This topic is particularly of interest to me because I have journeyed through the evolution of gaming and witnessed the evolution of technology; some of the claims made in past research
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Popular Culture: Violent Video Games Popular Culture: Violent Video Games Violent video games are a form of popular culture that is very controversial in the world today. Various professionals and the society members have argued over the issue of violent video games especially on how the games should be restricted or prohibited to limit their use among the youths. These controversial arguments about violent video games make this kind of popular
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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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Inventions nowadays involves technologies and one of those is video games. Video games is a popular hobby today‚ be it a teenager or an elementary student‚ everyone gets addicted to it. There are a lot of people who says that playing video games have negative effects and these children most of the time argue with their parents on the time they spend on video games. So‚ this paper aims to discuss the pros and cons of the said issue. Some examples of the positive effects is it can improve your
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Introduction The video-gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar industry‚ top selling games producing millions of dollars in their first few days of release. But the industry’s biggest sellers are violent video games (LeClaire‚ 2006). These days‚ people are desensitized towards violence that they practically walk past violent events in the street or helpless‚ injured people without thinking twice or casting a second glance (cyh.com‚ 2010). Are video games the cause for increased violent behaviour
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Subject: The Home Video Game Industry: Industry Analysis History In 1949 the video game was thought of for the first time by an engineer named Ralph Baer but it would be years before video games would enter the spotlight.1 In 1972 Steve Bushnell started the first gaming company Atari. Until 1978 there were very few games for the home system. In 1982 Atari releases a newer version and sales start to sore. In 1985 Nintendo enters the market with the NES. Nintendo still outsells both companies
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Effects of Violent Video Games on Children The use of video games has become tremendously popular among children and adolescents in the past decade. In fact‚ “Sixty-eight percent of U.S. households play computer or video games.” (David Jenkins‚ 2009) This statistic reveals how important it is to understand the effects that these games can have on individuals and more specifically‚ children. Over the years‚ numerous studies have been conducted investigating whether video games have positive or
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Childhood Obesity: Video Games Not To Blame According to a 2006 American Obesity Association Study‚ approximately 30.3% of children (6-11 years) are overweight and 15.3% are obese. For teens (12-19 years) 33.4% are overweight and 15.5% obese. Who is planning on having children in the future? Who is planning on raising overweight or obese children? I bet if someone asked that question 20 years ago the response would be about the same; but in the last two decades the rate of overweight and obese
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Violence There’s too much of it‚ but where does teen violence come from? Some studies say movies‚ other say TV shows‚ but most of them say video-games. When a dad or a mom sees the news and they says that the killer played violent video-games‚ they just take of shooting games for a week and then they forget about it. If parents are just going to do that what is the difference? "There’s an association‚ but it’s not a very robust one." says Katherine Newman author of books about the
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“BLAME VIOLENT GAMES!” Recently video games have been blamed as the main cause of violence in today’s society. Video games have been a main source of entertainment since 1957 when professors used them for simulations to prove their research. Many famous video game characters have come out since then like Mario‚ Luigi‚ Sonic‚ and many‚ many more. I have been playing games since I was 4 years old and I have never once been violent or thought of being violent since then. I believe games can improve certain
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