Do Video Games Cause Violence
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 were very biased and were full of conjectures and had claims of causality drawn completely out of context, when no evidence was presented and published on public media.
Significance:
The purpose of the research using the post-positivist paradigm; …show more content…
What we need to distinguish is the difference between violent behaviour and aggressive behaviour.
What is violence? What is Aggression? One cannot categorize these two as the same thing, they are not; the scope of violence can come with varying degrees ranging from a simple common assault by pushing another person to viciously committing assault and battery to gruesome mass shootings and genocide are just some from the lightest to the extremist of the spectrum.
Aggression on the other hand can range between insulting and cursing to behaviours that are driven mostly by irrationality and anger but not necessarily committing a violent act. For example: people road raging in dense busy traffic honking their horns, yelling and pulling the fingers all of that without coming in contact with a video game.
Ivory & Kalyanaraman addresses experiments done on college students to see if there is an increase in aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviours and if there was a link between specific video games that politicians are claiming to be the culprit for training events such as the columbine shooting or the Virginia tech
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 were very biased and were full of conjectures and had claims of causality drawn completely out of context, when no evidence was presented and published on public media.
Significance:
The purpose of the research using the post-positivist paradigm; …show more content…
What we need to distinguish is the difference between violent behaviour and aggressive behaviour.
What is violence? What is Aggression? One cannot categorize these two as the same thing, they are not; the scope of violence can come with varying degrees ranging from a simple common assault by pushing another person to viciously committing assault and battery to gruesome mass shootings and genocide are just some from the lightest to the extremist of the spectrum.
Aggression on the other hand can range between insulting and cursing to behaviours that are driven mostly by irrationality and anger but not necessarily committing a violent act. For example: people road raging in dense busy traffic honking their horns, yelling and pulling the fingers all of that without coming in contact with a video game.
Ivory & Kalyanaraman addresses experiments done on college students to see if there is an increase in aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviours and if there was a link between specific video games that politicians are claiming to be the culprit for training events such as the columbine shooting or the Virginia tech