Negative Effects Of Video Games Affecting Our Generations

Dead Space 2, Mortal Kombat, Call Of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Naughty Bear and Kane and Lynch 2: dog days: these are just some of the violent video games that are out in the market right now. You can buy these games for multiple devices and counsels, and many of the main characters are either a psychopath, a criminal, a army officer, a lone survivor in a zombie apocalypse, or a medieval knight fighting their way to save the princess. People never thought about the effects that videogames have on a child or a teenager. No one focused

Joan Jett’s song, “I don’t give a damn bout my bad reputation” may seem to express the sentiment of the gaming industry. Despite being accused of impairing academic achievement, leading to obesity, and contributing to violent behavior, the gaming industry continues to market to children and to create an increasing number of violent games. It appears that this billion dollar industry has a blatant disregard for the public’s wellbeing. Because of these claims of detrimental effects, anti-game laws have made their way to the Supreme Court. These proposals have been rejected repeatedly. This is not done just because of our right to freedom of speech. These court cases are won by the gaming industry because no link between violent video

The age of the average gamer is not ten to fifteen years old; it is actually between thirty and thirty-five-years old. They are the parents who play their kid’s consoles or the college graduates that are procrastinating. Millions of Americans play video games at least three to four hours a week. Most parents would rather have their kids reading Shakespeare or studying math. However, while these activities are good for the brain, so are video games. Many controversies arise with new violent and graphic video games that say the games are bad for physical and mental health. The action shooter games that feature excessive amounts of blood and gore are actually improving brain function and capability through hand-eye coordination and mental fitness. The action games are not alone, though, because there are also puzzle games and strategy games that support this stance even more. Video games can offer great health benefits such as improving cognitive function, keeping people connected, and improving core body functions.

Call of Duty, Halo, Assassin Creed among others may seem violent to many parents but they continue to purchase these games for their children. In our society video games have become part of an everyday activity in a majority of homes. Video games can be considered toys any children can play with. However, video games are becoming harmful because children are playing these violent games and are causing them health problems, mentally, emotionally bad effects.

Video games today have become a huge role in the consumption of people’s entertainment. Ninety- seven percent of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 play video games and the industry only shows signs of large growth. In 2016, 24.5 billion games were sold (Nichols) leading to a 21.53 billion dollar industry (“Do Violent Video”). With the growth of new players around the world, the debate has sparked whether video games are beneficial to society or if they come with repercussions. They may be fun for the kids, but the parents may not agree. Research is quickly being done to determine whether they are harmful or helpful. Some believe that the violence and addiction of video games make them a danger to society while others argue there are benefits to playing video games. However, video games have been misrepresented in the media and wrongly blamed for the actions they are not related to. Research has actually shown that video games can come with a large group of benefits that disprove much of the speculation around them. With video games being misrepresented and research suggesting they are beneficial, it is logical and reasonable to come to the conclusion that video games can do more good than harm.

Video games can sometimes get a bad reputation but due to contrary belief, video games have been a positive impact on today’s society. Both children and adults have benefitted from the use of video games. Not to mention the ginormous community video games have brought with it. With things like Esports, video game companies, and the cognitive benefits for adults and children video games are here to stay. So how have they affected today's society in a positive way?

Most of the research done on video games tends to be done on the possible negative effects associated with the medium. From aggression and violence to the connection to mood disorders, video games tend to get a bad reputation. However, there are studies that have been done about the possible positive effects of games as well. There are definitely fewer positive studies than negative, but they are out there for those who search them out. The study that was used by Kendall Ashley in her article “How Videogames Can Help with Depression and Anxiety”, was not one of those studies.

Video gaming can cause many health problem, Death, Poor Performance and Preoccupations for people. Video game change the facts how people sees the world in a negative ways which can leads to health problem, Poor performance, Preoccupations and also death. Many teens are into gaming more than before which also increase the cause of problem and addiction. Teens treat gaming as a daily life activity that’s why it causes more negative effects on them than the one who only uses the game during free time. It’s start with playing video game sometime then leads to addictions and problem.

Video games have a real sense of irony, and this is why we need to increase and expand the number of video games being played for the future of our planet. So the real question here is why are we wanting to expand video games globally. For the sake of video games and video gamers, they come all over the world to play these magnificent games. Do they better our lives? Or do they do real damage to us for our society's culture? To answer the real question, let's say it did go globally for our culture, would we still be standing with all of our friends and family? This is a question we need to ask ourselves for the media. So much of the media talks down on video gamers. We need to understand the real reason as for why it comes to down to negative effects as well as all the future positivity it brings us.

When the term “video games” is mentioned, the mental image many may picture is most likely one of a teenage boy behind a television screen or monitor, engaging in an action packed animation that contains no benefit but of pleasure. For many years the idea of computerized gaming has been twisted and misunderstood for something it truly isn’t. The subject of discussion when the topic is usually brought about is typically about how video games are damaging our society and how the influence of some games have negatively impacted many and have indubitably brought about nothing but harm and violence due to the graphic content of some specific games, typically making that the image branded behind the idea of gaming. Could video games truly improve multitasking and problem solving skills? Truthfully, although video games and the effect on the human race have been misinterpreted as a brain deteriorating concept, many scientists and psychologists find that video games can actually have many benefits, even further proven that video games have the ability to actually teach and strengthen the effect of multitasking on the brain, with a long term effect of consistent results due to scientific studies taken.

A major development in mass media over the last 25 years has been the advent and rapid growth of the video game industry. From the earliest arcade- based console games, video games have been immediately and immensely popular, particularly among young people. According to Gentile, “Additionally, the introduction of video games to the home market only served to further elevate their prevalence” [Gentile, 2009]. Because of their widespread popularity, social scientists, parents, and politicians have been concerned with the potential effects of video games, focusing particularly on games with violent content and their harmful effects on children. Although there is an extensive base of scientific literature on the negative effects of violent video games, research on prosocial games is much more limited. Few empirical studies have tested the effect of prosocial video game content on helpful and hurtful behaviors and results from these studies suggest that prosocial content in games can in fact increase prosocial behavior in the short and long terms. Additionally, recent studies have started to explore the causal mechanisms responsible for the effects of prosocial video games on helpful and hurtful behaviors. Results from some studies suggest that these effects may be due to changes in cognitive beliefs, whereas other studies suggest these effects are due to changes in affect. Overall, both types of effects are consistent with social-cognitive models of social behavior, including

Ninety-seven percent of US children play a minimum of one hour of video games a day (Granic et al. ¶7). Children play video games for a variety of reasons; a survey conducted by Cheryl Olson, an internationally known researcher on the effects of video games, of 1,254 middle schoolers found teens play video games ¨for emotional regulation: as an antidote to boredom and loneliness, to relax, and to vent angry feelings¨(Olson ¶7). Despite the popularity of video games and the emotional benefits they provide, they are believed to be detrimental to teenage development. This is due to studies like the one conducted by Jay Hull, an associate dean of psychology at Dartmouth University, which claim certain video games can cause an increase in ¨alcohol consumption, smoking, aggression, delinquency, and risky sex¨ (¶102). However, those problems can easily be reduced or negated, and playing video games is actually beneficial to teenager´s development when played in moderation.

Video gaming is popular for people of all ages. Children and teenagers spend majority of their free time playing them. Video gaming may promote learning, problem solving and help with the development of coordination. However, there are concerns about the effect of video games among children and teenagers who play video games excessively.Video games may affect the behavior, the physical health, and the wrong way to reenact a video game.Do you think video games help children and teenagers! Do you think its okay if children or teenagers play video games excessively at home? In what ways do video games affect children and teenagers.

Video Games have become astonishingly popular, but unwelcomed source of entertainment. Video game popularity has increased steadily overtime and today 9 out of 10 American teens play video games. On average an American teen spends two hours a day playing video games (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts). However, when Bailey, West, and Anderson gave the survey on the streets a significant percentage of teens claimed playing as much as four hours a day or more (Bailey, West, & Anderson). The fact that such a large number of children and teens spend time on a video games brings public concerns about the influence it has on teenagers and children (Wartella, & Reeves). The rising popularity of video games has

Video games are fun to play. Playing video games may help us to forget our stress for some time but is it really worth our precious time? The popularity of video game is in upward trend. Every day we see many people playing video games and getting addicted to it. Without caring much about their surroundings, they focus their attention solely on the game. Video game is popular all over the world including Unite States. In their article, “Internet Gaming Disorder”, Yvonne Yau and Marc Potenza cite, “The Entertainment Software Association estimates that in the United States, 58% of the population play video games and more than 50% of the population owns a gaming console.” The number of population playing video game is huge. The interesting