Online Gamers Anonymous

“Addiction to online gaming is the fastest growing problem, especially among youth.” (Internet Addiction 1) Online gaming addiction affects up to 5,000,000 children. (Internet Addiction Disorder Basics 1) Not only does this addiction impact children, it influences everyone, including adults. “Internet addiction affects as many as one in eight Americans.” (Donald 1) With technology ever expanding, the problem is most likely to get worse. It is widely believed that America has the biggest problem with internet use. But, China has a more extensive complication. 200 million internet users in China are between the ages of 15 and 35. China has even set up treatment camps for internet addicts. (De 1) Many people who play videogames agree that they are addicting. But, what they don’t know is they’re falling into…

posts. Blogs in Iran gave many individuals a very special opportunity for self-expression. Amir-Ebrahimi Masserat, a techno-optimist, stated that “this virtual public space [blogs] has become a tribune for self-expression and self-disclosure; a place of interaction, dialogue, and critique; and a new virtual public sphere that seems to be much more real, in its immediacy and accessibility, than all other existing public spheres in Iran” (Page 236). He points out that blogs give “religious girls……

What/Who is/are Anonymous? Cyber terrorists, freedom fighters, a group of hackers, revolutionaries or AN organization? Anonymous may be a movement. Anonymous has no leadership; if you think in Anonymous, and call yourself Anonymous, you're Anonymous. How huge is Anonymous? Anons around the world have Moved from opposing web censorship and control to Attack governments silencing the people’s rights, standing for freedom of expression, animal rights, Helped the less fortunate, protective kids…

How do female gamers navigate the world of gaming culture today? When, so often, that culture is against them. Why are women, for the most part, being ignored and excluded by mainstream game developers? How did gaming culture come to be what it is today? A culture containing sexism and negative as well as stereotypical representations of women. What is a gamer? What is gaming culture? These questions can be answered in the context of game design studies. Gaming culture itself can be seen as a…

have some impactful experiences in my life that connected to the essay via online gaming. When I was in high school, I was a hardcore gaming nerd. I’d make sure to finish all my work in school so as to allow myself to have a huge amount of time to play games when I got home. I would spend every week, day, hour, minute, and second playing games during my breaks from school. The only time I would step away from my computer would be to tend to my basic human needs such as satiating my hunger,…

If I told you to picture what you consider to be a gamer, the first image you would come up with is a young boy holding a controller. If I told you to come up with another image, it would be a struggle to imagine another type of gamer, and there’s a reason for that. The target demographic of the gaming industry includes men from age 18 to 34, and the industry goes to great lengths to make them the sole demographic. The sexualized representation of women in games, the backlash from men that…

1988 the world 's first online, Player vs. Player, tournament was held for the game Netrek. In the coming years many more companies began getting involved with gaming tournaments including Blockbuster Video, Nintendo, GamePro Magazines, etc. What 's the first thing that comes to your mind when I say the words "Professional Gamer"? You probably think about some overweight guy in his late 20 's to early 30 's in a basement, unemployed, just playing video games 12 hours a day, and sleeping the…

Gaming is a worldwide phenomenon now that keeps getting bigger and bigger every day on multiple consoles or computers. But now everyone is thinking is it going to be considered a sport. Well in some parts of the country and outside our country it is already considered one. To some people sports are supposed to be physically active and moving around daily during the sport. To others it is just standing still and golfing patiently. But gaming is a special one because you are either sitting in a…

speaking on the subject, the teacher stated that he would “be pretty hard-pressed to find one of the standards [he] couldn 't teach with Minecraft" (Meyer). Minecraft has many useful aspects for the classroom and this teacher from Oahu made it his goal to discover and use them all to better his students learning abilities. Continually, video games can also be useful within the classroom by promoting in class participation and helping teach students many useful skills like how to form an…

THE CONSOLE SLAVE “Filthy Console Peasants” –Tim Wagemaster The console slave is the opposite of the PC master race. These are the people who only believe in console gaming, nothing else. They believe that computers are a wasted platform for gaming, that because consoles were the original platform for gaming, they are the best. I really do not know too many of these people, but the ones I do know are fairly extreme. Most console gamers play games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and many…