What Is The Controversy Of Video Game Induced Violence?

In my most recent essay I wrote of the violence attributed to video games in light of various shootings and other tragedies that occurred in the past year or so. In this essay I argued that despite their violent content, video games are not completely to blame for acts of violence committed by children. Throughout this essay I tried to convince the reader by, first, establishing my own credibility with video games, then sharing my own experiences with violent games, and providing both empirical data and valuable insight from trusted sources.

The main argument of this article is that video games have a direct link to short term and long term aggression. The author presents this argument by providing studies from peer reviewed articles that all conclude that video games do cause an increase of aggression. The main point of this article is to answer the question, “Do violent video games lead to aggression.” The article is about the effects of violent video games leading to aggression. The author uses recent examples, like the Sandy Hook and Washington Navy Yard shooting. In both of these examples, the author cites that both shooters had a history with playing violent video games. The author uses a study which selected individuals to play violent video games for a certain period of time. The study would then compare the results to a group who played non-violent video games. The study concluded that violent video games cause a direct link in aggression due to humans reenacting the actions the characters within the video games perform.

Violent video games have remained in the spotlight amidst mast shootings in the United States orchestrated by avid violent video gamers. This has raised concerns about the adverse effects these games might have on gamers. Nevertheless, I was raised in a family where video games were an integral part of our daily activities to keep me and my siblings at bay from the violence in our neighborhood. My parents reasoned that allowing their children play video games at home prevented them from being exposed to violence in the neighborhood. I remember being an “active gamer” by the age of six where I started off playing video games that required little planning and/or violence. However, by the age of twelve, I explored more complicated video games that required strategic planning with reasonable violence.

People have tried to paint video games as the cause of the horrific atrocities that occurred through the years, such as the Columbine High School massacre. Christopher J. Ferguson wrote an article arguing that there are groups of people who are anti-video games and have funded purposely-fraudulent research suggesting there are negative effects to playing video games for their own self-interest (30). To the contrary of the faulty research, statistics have shown that video game sales have risen dramatically from about 75 million units in 1996 to a peak of around 250 million units in 2004. Meanwhile, serious violent crimes committed by the youth have decreased significantly from around 175 crimes in 1996 to less than 100 crimes in 2005 (33). “As

I wrote “Violence, Video Games, and the Serious Game Movement,” that was published in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education in 2009. Mainly because with all of the mass shootings that have occurred over the years that have left many different families devastated. Critics behind these type of crime always seem to wonder “what is influencing these aggressors to perform such a violent act?” It has become common today to dismiss the issues of family history and mental illness but focus on video game violence and the exposure to adolescents. Many people assume that videogames are the direct cause of real life violence, because in incident like the Columbine School Shooting where both Klebold and Harris shared common interest in both

In today’s society the entertainment industry is being attacked from many angles. Television is being criticized by showing images of violence and aggression, music is being ridiculed for explicit lyrics, and within the last decade the issue of videogame violence and children has come to the attention of the mass media. The media, politicians, and many parents are blaming videogames for violent acts among children and those less than 18 years of age. But could videogames be the sole cause of violent crimes among children? In the fall of 2005 I took a course here at Coker called Videogames – Analysis and Research. The most popular topic discussed in our class was Violence and Aggression as a result of Violent Videogames. We studied

Recently Video games have been to blame for many of the incidents among teen violence. Anti-game activists are quick to blame video games for teen violence. If video games are the reason for violence then why it is that video game sales have quadrupled while violent juvenile crime in the United States has declined by over 71.8%. I am of the opinion that video games are not to blame for teen violence, but that it has been made a common excuse over the years. In reality people, more so parents are just trying to find something to blame for kid’s actions instead of taking personal inventory of themselves, and the way they are raising their children.

The advancement of technology in the contemporary word has increased the use of video games by children, teenagers and young adults. The video games have existed for almost three decades and the controversy of their causing violent behavior spans the same period (Porter and Starcevic,422). The release of Death Race game in 1970s initiated a debate with organizations, governments officials and other institution taking sides in the argument of whether violent video games cause violent behaviors. The issue has been a bond of contention and has attracted several scientific studies as well as psychological explanations. As a result, the media, regulatory authorities and professionals in mental health have debated the effects of video games on the behavior of those that play, especially the young people. This essay argues that video games do not cause violent behaviors.

By the year 1980, almost every house in America had a computer or a television. The issue of violence in these media products has been a highly-debated issue for the past few decades. Recently it has become extremely popular in the subject of violence in video games. It is rumored that games such as “Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Battlefield, Halo and many more have been the culprit behind a recent spike in childhood aggression. Many people have their own views on the subject, but it has been most commonly deduced that aggression is caused by the games, but violence does not always follow the aggression. Violence in video games has been proven to have a direct correlation with the aggression in children.

As we look around in today's society, we are surrounded by technology and as it advances we have relied on these technological advancement as a form of media. A form of media that has been controversial because of it's rapid growth and advancement would be video games. The first video game that was available to play on a console at home was Pong, a simple game that was similar to tennis where two line must hit a dot and score a point. Pong was released in 1972 and after forty-three years video games are still relevant. According to a team in the University of Essex in the UK, " People around the world spend a massive three billion hours per week playing video games." ( Entertainment Software Association) At first

Statistically, 2017 has become the year with second lowest crimes rates since 1990, assuming there isn’t a big resurgence in violent crime between now and the end of the year (Bump). However, violent crimes continue to be a problem in modern-day America. Many have sought out to find out the root of these crimes and what causes them, and as a result, many different things have been cited as a cause for violence. Violent video games are said to be a possible source of aggression in teens and can allegedly influence teens and young adults to commit acts of assault, brutality, and terrorism. With zero evidence supporting this allegation and no concrete evidence to

On December 14, 2012, a twenty year old boy named Adam Lanza shot twenty children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Before arriving to the school, he shot his mother then committed suicide after the shooting. The reports say that he was influenced to shooting others by the video game “Call of Duty”. Video game violence is defined as a behavior including physical violence intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something impacted by video games. Video games can increase the aggressiveness of kids and young adults.

Violent video games have been an issue and a big controversy , mainly because violent video games have been blamed to be the root of violence which have been a current issue examples are School Shooting , Bullying , and Violence towards women that just have been in the news recently. Experts says that these kind of games desensitizes some video game players to committing violence, recompense players for simulating violence, and teaches youth that the only way to resolve their conflicts is through violence. Critics also argue that these games should be subjected to legislative oversight and restrictions because it’s harmful and should

Victor Chau Professor Myers ENGL-1301 Video Games: Can it cause violence? Any action against violent video games should be met with more research and that any banning of violent video games should come under more significant scrutiny. For sometime, many people consider violent video games to be the cause of violent behavior in the younger generations. However there are also people who would refute such claims that violent video games are the causes of tragedies, and would point to another reason why anyone would perform violent actions. The concerned peoples who have put stock in the notion that violent video games has caused youths of today to perform school shootings and/or suicide have only been lightly educated about the positive impact that video games have done for the younger generations, as well as the older generations. In fact, people would say that it is coincidence that a killer who have just happened to play video games could have been inspired by the virtual simulations that video games can provide. A what if example would be to say if a person who is set on shooting people in a certain drove to the location of his designated shooting spree in a particular brand of car. Is the company who produced such the car at fault for making and selling it to the perpetrator? Of course not. To quickly address also, all video games forgo a rating system created by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, or ESRB for short, in order to determine which audience a certain

This article focuses on the relation between video games and violence. The young men who opened fire at the theater in Aurora, the Columbine High School and in other massacres had one thing in common. All of them were video gamers who acted out their violent digital fantasies. The author is of the point of view that although all the culprits in the above cited instances were video gamers they were mentally imbalanced. Video games do have an effect on gamers but it’s a very short term effect. A video gamer can be aggressive for a couple of minutes but he cannot sustain the aggression for a longer duration of time. Violent video games help the gamers in venting out their frustration in a harmless way. According to Craig Anderson, a psychologist at Iowa State University, acts of extreme violence like school shootings cannot be attributed to a single factor. Other factors like being bullied or being socially isolate can have bad effects too. He is of the