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Video Game Violence


# 99190
Video Game Violence
This paper examines the effects of video game violence on children.
1,081 words (approx. 4.3 pages) | 9 sources | MLA | 2007 United States


Paper Summary:

The paper explores whether violent video games have a detrimental effect on children and how they cause behavior changes. The paper examines various research studies and concludes with the consensus that violent video games can contribute to violent behavior for some players, notably for young males who play for many hours at a time. The paper also emphasizes, however, that the games are not creating an entire generation of violent people as some have claimed and the degree of effect will differ greatly from one person to another and one group to another.

From the Paper:

"Concerns about the effect of media violence on children extends back at least to the beginning of the mass media, with the issue raised with reference to films, radio, television, comic books, and so on. As technology brings new types of media to the fore, the issue shifts to depictions of violence in these new media. Both popular sources and scholarly address this issue, asking in effect how violent video games change children's behavior and make them more violent, assuming that it is believed that this is the case."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • Costikyan, G. (1999). Games don't kill people -- do they? Salon, http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/999/06/21/game_violence/index.html.
  • Federov, A.V. (2005, November). School students and computer games with screen violence. Russian Education and Society, Vol. 47, No. 11, 88-96.
  • Funk, J.B. et al. (1999, March). Rating electronic games: Violence is in the eye of the beholder. Youth and Society, 282-312.
  • Gale, D. (2003, April 23). Research links violence to video games. NewsNet.
  • Grossman, D. (1998). We are training our kids to kill. Academic Search Premier.

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APA Citation:

Video Game Violence (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Video-Game-Violence/99190

MLA Citation:

"Video Game Violence" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Video-Game-Violence/99190>




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