Violent Video Games And Video Violence And Violence

Not all video games are the same, but that’s doesn’t matter because the violent one only receives attention from the media. For example, CNN covered a story on an 18-year-old gunman in Germany, they proceeded to accuse violent video games because the kid was a fan of first person shooter games. They then proceeded to talk about why they are bad and how there is a significant link between violence and video games. “Overall, the academy's summary of the results from more than 400 studies revealed a "significant" link between being exposed to violent media (in general) and aggressive behavior, aggressive thoughts and angry feelings” (Scutti par.6). They then proceeded to failing to defend why video games are bad by saying “He discovered that playing video games, no matter how

Kain, Erik. “The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence.” Mother Jones, 11 June 2013, www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/video-games-violence-guns-explainer/.

The Center for Disease Control has reported that 12 out of every 100,000, or 38,772, Americans were killed by firearm-related injuries in 2016. Approximately, 96 percent of those deaths were a result of gun violence. These numbers are up from 11 out of every 100,000, or 35,299, in 2015 and they continue to increase. My research thus far has show that the link between violent video games and gun violence in America is complex and nearly non-existent. My research question will explore the relationship between violent video games and gun violence and whether their relationship is a correlation or a causation. The resources that will support my thesis will focus on the understanding that violent video games are not a cause of gun violence and that the real issue lies elsewhere.

“Academics have researched and documented flow-related experiences for decades, with many repeatedly linking it to a number of positive outcomes for adolescents, including academic improvements in high school, improved self-esteem, and decreased levels of anxiety” (Glynn).

Does playing a video game make you prone to commit real-life violence? This question has been an issue since the very early 90's when violent games like Doom and Wolfenstein were released, but only in the last half a decade or so (mainly since the incident at Columbine, Colorado, 1999 – when it was revealed that the teenage shooters were avid video game players) has it really come to the majority's attention. The key issue that both sides can't agree on is whether people should be allowed to play violent games or not. I think both sides agree that extremely violent video games should not be played by young children, who have a harder time separating reality from fiction; also, the media does indeed only report one side of the

Violent video games have been being created since the first console. Yet only recently have we been blaming them for aggression in the player. We as humans have a tendency to blame our violent behavior on other things rather thin ourselves. Now aggression is being defined in many ways in this situation but mainly people point to the anger that’s brought out in the real world after the game or maybe it’s the gamers’ tendency to have outburst will playing the game. Both these thing show anger but do they really show that the game is what caused it. This same situation could be put in the place of me eating a potato and getting angry right after is it really the potatoes fault no.

There have been many studies that have proven this fact. There's nothing that supports a relationship between violent videogames playing and aggression not correlational or casual (Lowenstein). Another example form Lowenstein is "Many players said that they perceive the aggressive content as fantastic and preposterous, with the result that they don't take it seriously; they don't perceive their own actions as harming others since they don't believe that characters are real or suffer pain." Most people don't consider virtual violence as real-world violence, but instead as a world of entertainment and

Violent games could lead to children becoming more violent and thinking that violence in general is okay. This would be called "desensitizing". Desensitizing in this instance is defined as "make (someone) less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty, violence, or suffering by overexposure to such images". I did a project in this class about if violent video games have the ability to desensitize children, and I believe that they can desensitize children, but not all. It depends on the child. "The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behavior, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in prosocial behavior, empathy and sensitivity to aggression.” -American Psychological Association

The issue of video game violence seems to be a hot topic right now after several shootings have occurred and made a connection to the shooters being video gamers. In looking at past research it is apparent that there seems to large amounts of research that contradict one work to another. Although I would have been interested in conducting a poll of the publics opinion regarding the use of violent video games and their connection to mass shootings I was not able to conduct the research. However, for this paper I chose to conduct a literature analysis to see what research has been conducted and to seek out gaps and themes in this research.

Studies have always shown that video games correlate with violence. However, is that true? Are video games really the reason why kids are violent? Many studies in the recent years have actually shown that those studies have been false. Video games are actually healthier than what most parents and the public believe.

Guns have become a popular weapon in video games and manufacturers use this as a form of advertisement. These advertisements are encouraging gun violence and killing for a win. Some of the games were designed to teach men how to shoot and properly use a gun and train for the army. Two specific people that played these games were school shooters and caused the possible link between video game and human violence. In the article, there is an explanation of The Columbine massacre which supports the issue of violence connection destructive video games. There was also mention of another case of boys that shot at random cars and killed several and their explanation for doing so was that the game had enticed them to. Even though the games are conflicting

Video games don't make kids violent. First, There has been less arrest rates. In the article it states that the arrest rates are 38% below the 1980s. Most attacks aren't caused by violent video games. Con 4 it states that the 41 attackers they studied was 27% from movies, 24% from books, 37% from their own writings, and 12 from violent video games. People who play video games play them to release stress and anger. 61.9% of boys played to help them relax, 47.8% because it helps them forget their problems, and 45.5% to release stress or anger. Video games do not make you as

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.

Pac-man, Space Invaders and Super Mario Bros are the games kids used to play now it is more like Call of Duty, Doom, and Assassins Creed. As time has gone on the video games children have played have become more violent than ever before. Such violent games have changed the ways kids behave. Video game violence does have a connection to violent behavior.

Do violent video games cause real world violence on kids? These games can be gruesome and gory but they don't have a negative violent influence on kids for reasons like no study has shown that it causes real world violence, there can be metal heath problems with these people committing these violent acts and finally there are other reasons why these people do these things that are getting blamed on violent video games.