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Sandcastles In April of 2016, the visual album, Lemonade, took the internet by storm. After America’s most influential singer opened up about what was once kept as personal, the reactions and underlining messages were unforgettable. Being able to dissect the art of making lemonade into a personal diaspora to cultivate and strengthen others into learning the art of the grieving process was goal of the album. Contrary to popular beliefs, Beyoncé wanted the outside world to see that she was human…

In the study Effects of Video-Game Play on Information Processing: A Meta-Analytic Investigation, the authors talk about the problem with trying to look at videogame’s effects because so many things are now considered videogames, they state that “the definition can be as narrow as including only games played on a gaming console, or as broad as including all digital games from Solitaire to Grand…

Video games have recently been linked to school shootings, violent outbursts, and increased irritability levels in children and young adults. In Time’s online article “Little By Little, Violent Video Games Make Us More Aggressive”, Alice Park writes about the ongoing debate regarding violence in video games. She writes “Worries about how violence in virtual reality might play out in real life have led legislators to propose everything from taxing violent video games to proposing age restrictions…

Video game have become increasingly popular ever since 1977 when home entertainment systems where introduced to japan and later to the rest of the world. Since then they have been a device that keeps kids and even adults entertained. Because video games are fairly new and so popular that most people can remember playing them with either there kids or as a kid, games like Mario, Pac-man, Asteroids, Super pit fall, and many more. Ever since video games were created people have used them to blame…

Video Games: A Misunderstood Medium For many years children and adults have enjoyed a special form of entertainment that provides experiences like no other, the video game. These electronic toys have been on the market since the 1970’s, a recent development, and history has shown that new trends are often targeted as a scapegoat for problems of the time. Currently, the ever growing industry of video games has been the source of such controversy, and is frequently blamed for many of the…

Video games and other interactions with technology can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on the lives of their users. The question now is, are video games really as bad as some our society some claim, or do they have good benefits for society. To these questions my answer is yes and yes. As mentioned above some video games have many beneficial health benefits. As such, we can, and in some cases should use them. The ways in which games can relieve symptoms from accidents, assist…

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker, was once sent into hiding by a death threat because of her views on women in video games. She created videos called Tropes vs. Women. In her videos, she explains how women are portrayed in video games. She says in one of her videos that most damsel in distress based games follow the Subject-Object Dichotomy. Saying that the subject, or main character that is usually a male, must find the object, or the…

Internet and world-wide online games network, video games popularity has been growing tremendously. According to research by the Entertainment Software Association, in 2015, 155 million American play video games, which is almost half of the population. Video games have been said to be the cause of many problems in teens: bad academic result, aggressive behavior, strain relationship with friends and family… Therefore, in the past, “Parents tend to approach video games like junk food: games are…

The positive effect of video games It seem that every time mankind face problem, we naturally pass it off as it as someone else fault. It is either music, internet, video game or any other form of media that are usually the first to blame for society’s issue. The most common today, are video game. Virginia attack, bombing in Moscow, Newtown massacre, it seem like it is getting easier and easier for people to blame on video games. well it is the video game fault? let find out. but first let start…

With the rise of texting, emailing, chatrooms, and social media, there has also been the rise of cyberbullying. Some are calling it an epidemic among children because it appears that no one is safe from it because of the fact that our entire lives seem to revolve around the very media that is responsible for cyberbullying. Now, it is widely understood that media itself isn’t bullying people, but rather that people are using media to harass and heckle other people by hiding behind a screen and a…