P. Stephen Calcutt 9 October 2012 E-Portfolio Video Game-Playing is Unhealthy for Teenagers Effects of Violent Video games The amount of time invested in various media by adolescents rises every year due to the increasing technology advancements. In fact‚ between 2004 and 2009 the amount of time an 8- to 18 year old spent with media increased by 1 hour and 17 minutes a day‚ resulting in 7 hours and 38 minutes per day in 2009 (Reinburg‚ 2010). This amount of time is mind-blowing when added
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The Impact of Video Games on Children Video games have been available to consumers for the last 30 years. They are a unique form of entertainment‚ because they encourage players to become a part of the game’s script. Today’s sophisticated video games require players to pay constant attention to the game‚ rather than passively watching a movie. This has both positive and negative impacts on players. Several studies have been published that explore these impacts on today’s children. Most people
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The US video game market reached nearly $ 21 billion in sales in 2008. On an average an adolescent spends about 10-13 hours per week playing video games. The cause may be attributed to the fact that video games today have become a necessity more than a luxury. They are a unique form of entertainment because they encourage players to become a part of the game. However‚ video games have both positive and negative impacts on players. While some of them are fun and entertaining‚ others have
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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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Introduction The global video game market‚ or the so called interactive entertainment industry‚ is the economic sector which focuses on the development‚ marketing and sales of video games. The worldwide video game sector includes video game console hardware and software‚ online‚ mobile and PC games and has reached $ 93 billion in 2013‚ up from $ 79 billion in 2012. Currently‚ the video game industry is a massive source of development; profit still stimulates technological advancement
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world. As we enter the 21st Century‚ video games are becoming more popular each and every day. People of all ages can and do enjoy video games as a way to spend their free-time. The issue with video games in the market is that they are becoming too violent in some people’s minds. The thing that makes these video games violent is the graphical scenes‚ gameplay‚ and strong language. There are many types of games that affect the brain in different ways. 3D games are generally more popular‚ more addicting
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Rivera Video Game Violence Is Not the Villain Harold Rios Torres B00273402 Have you ever taken the time to see why children behave a certain way after playing violent videogames? Some parents fail to see this. But the few who see the change in behavior quickly blame the video game industry for said changes. Violent video games are not the cause of violent behavior in children. Every video game has its rating. Each rating has an age range letting people know for what ages the game is suitable
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Video Games: Creating Monsters or Not? “Stay alive at any cost! Find the key! Shoot the bad guys!” This is how one sixth-grader describes the way of playing video games. Such video games can seem like harmless fun‚ but what if the violence gets personal and addicts young teenagers‚ affecting their behavior and their view of reality? Some studies have shown that violent game players just do not leave it there on their game screens; they transfer the violent acts they get attached to‚ to the real
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that puzzling problem. And there comes the blood. The opponents of video games‚ including anti-violence activists and some parents and educators‚ imagine the former when they hear the phrase “video games”. The latter is pictured by the proponents of video games‚ which include gamers and the addicts. The dawn of these pros and cons can be attributed to the increasing number of gamers‚ which accounts to around 500 million people around the world‚ according to Jane McGonigal‚ a game researcher‚ in
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Video Game Media Analysis Often video games are simply regarded as play things and because of this‚ are not brought under any scrutiny except for how they harm children. The video game as a medium though offers many new ways of interacting with a simulated world that the likes of movies or books could never dream of achieving. Marshall McLuhan describes games in general as‚ “situations contrived to permit simultaneous participation of many people in some significant pattern
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