Violent Video Games: The Effects on Youth and Public Policy Implications
In this article, by Douglas A. Gentile and Graig A. Anderson, the main focus is violence in video games, hence the title. It's pretty much a 16 or so paged article explaining the controversies between violent video games and non violent video games and the studies they took to defend whether or not violence in video games is a contributing factor to increasing aggression and real world violence. Ratings and parents both play a huge role in this; if parents aren't watching what their kids play, then they're kids could grow up violent and if the ratings aren't correct then they could easily be giving a child a game that is not suit for that child. The studies have proved a correlation between violence in video games and real world violence, BUT many other things could be contributing factors to aggression as well, such as history of abuse, bullying or even rape. Many things could play a role in whether or not your child grows up using violent behavior, so you can't only base it of if they played video games or not.
Whose fault is it?
This piece, written by Marilyn Manson, is from his point of view on an issue that, in his opinion, has been going on for too long. The Media is creating cold-blooded killers everyday; they're making murderers famous, putting them in the spot light. He also brings up a point that everyone has someone to blame, and the media loves to point the finger and blame anyone whose around or that fits the category. The media does this bringing people in making them believe it, when really everyone is someone to blame, considering we put murderers faces on the front pages of magazines and newspapers- and create a killer just by doing that.
Weinstein, Tarantino, and the Standoff over Movie Violence
Andrew O'Hehir writes about Quentin Tarantino and his love for producing violent movies, and Harvey Weinstein, who doesn't want to continue to make violent movies, realizing that if he would't want his own kids watching his movies, then why be a hypocrite and make them for everyone else and their kids? In this article, he pretty much says we have no idea whether aggression is caused directly from seeing violence in the media. We all love watching action films, which include violence so it's like a must for the world right now. So, he also brings up a big issue regarding violence, which is guns. He says if we can't even agree that GUNS of all things are violent, then never are we all going to really know or agree that increased aggression is caused by media violence. And in O'Hehir's opinion, this whole media and aggression is an issue that was supposed to be talked about a long time ago and Weinstein finally brought it up; the "National Conversation" that was promised is now in motion.
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