Media violence research

Desensitization and cognitive learning have shown effects in children due to violent video games. Violent video games can cause physiological effects in youth that include: delayed sleep, increased heart rate, and altered cognitive responses to violence. Aggressive behaviour, in youth, can be a result of repeated exposure to these video games which can have short, or long term effects. Violent video games have been a popular choice of entertainment for youth that can cause adverse effects on…

Violent Video Games in a Violence Saturated World Video games have come a long way since Pong first showed up in the 1970’s and even farther since the first known video game, Tennis for Two, was created by Physicist William Higinbotham to be used as a science display in the 1950’s. When that simple game was unveiled to visitors, long lines formed full of people wanting to try this new technology. They would press a button to whack a tennis ball over a net represented by a couple of white…

The American Academy of Pediatrics states that real life violence can be traced back to exposure to violent video games. This, of course, can be easily falsified due to the increasing number of teens that have been exposed to violent video games without committing any violent offenses. Since video games are interactive…

According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ”Children in the United States ages eight to eighteen spend on average seven and a half hours a day with media and technology screens ("WatchingTV/Screen Time and Children", 2016)”. Watching television at a young age is unhealthy, harmful, and destructive. There have been thousands of studies conducted on what happens to children when they start watching tv at a young age and all of them show some sort of negative affect.…

They contend that the research is flawed and in most cases no unhealthy effects even take place (McGrath, 2014, p.121). However, available research has proven through many studies of grade school and high school children that, although there is no proof of video games causing violence, they do create anxiety and aggression within all ages and genders. Furthermore, McGrath points out in an article published…

Firstly, the relation between violence in video games and in real life is uncertainty. Some studies that state video games as the contributor of youth’s aggression are flawed and ambiguous. Most of the studies do not include some significant factors in their research such as mental health of youth and violence in youth’s family (Ferguson). These factors are left uncontrolled despite they can affect the violent in youth as well. This leaves the research cannot be fully trustworthy. Some studies…

part of almost everyone’s everyday life. However is media becoming the fuel behind our actions? It is believed that a murder is committed every thirty-five minutes, but is media an accomplice to these occurrences? The killing of others, and among others has been happening before any sort of media was invented. However with its popularity and growing uses and reliance, maybe media is a sort of influence for crimes that didn’t exist before. Media is powerful, but is a television show like Dexter…

refers to children who tend to imitate behaviors and models that are shown in the media. Thus, when they encounter the similar situations, they would unconsciously express social aggression, in the way the television characters did. Another theory is the information processing theory, analogically, the way our brains work is like the way computers process information. Taking the long-term exposure to media violence as the input information, the brain would encode those input messages into…

entertainment for mature audiences that can handle violence and in some cases mature language or blood. Video games have been around since the 1940’s and also come in various categories. There are many types of video games such as sports, fantasy, adventure, role playing, and action packed shooters. The video game companies’ rate games to let consumers know which ages they are suitable for. Video games are now a part of pop culture and have been featured in the media as possibly influencing…

Gun violence is an increasing issue creating many debates on what the probable causes are. America has had a focused cause among children and youth; video games. Many proposals alongside gun control include how violent video games cause tendencies of engagement in real and harmful violence, particularly within the youth population. The ongoing argument on whether the video game industry leads/induces violent or aggressive behaviors within youth and children. While parents should keep a vigilant…