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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Sony Corporation Introduction In an economy that thrives thoroughly on technology and progression itself‚ there are many companies that have taken advantage of the opportunities that have been offered to them through science. Due to continuous development in technology‚ companies are being able to find their path in success through competitive products and service. And one of the Company that would strike on peoples mind in no time while talking about information technological
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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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and not a friend. In this generation of teenagers violent video games such as “Halo” “Mortal Combat” and “Medal of Honor” all of which take gamers to a place where its okay and not only okay but encourged to kill. “Iowa State university reasearchers found that violent video games increased the likely hood of of aggression”(Oskin). These games make it hard for the gamer to distingush between reality and the game. While yes these games do have ratings many of them R‚ an adult has to buy it for their
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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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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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