Annotated Bibliography For Pros And Cons Of Playing Video Games

Newspaper Source

Grossman, David. The Link is Clear between Violent T.V, Movies and Violent Youths. What the Surgeon general found as early as (1972). Perspective On Violence. Los Angeles Times. 21, 1999, 11

The issue of media violence has been the center of attention for a number of years now especially the effects of violent video games have been and still are being felt all over. Hundreds of studies of the effects of video games violence on children and teenagers have found that children may: become immune to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence they observe on television and identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers. Video games are a type of mass media that has transformed connections. Regrettably, it has transformed us, too. It has developed to take up our free time more than any other type of entertainment. It has encompassed our lives to the degree that we frequently think of it as benevolent, if we think concerning it at all. Video games violence has been connected to the violent actions in children, though it is not apparent how much of an influence videogames violence really has.

Harris, Mark. "Wii will rock you healthier." The Sunday Times 9 2008: 6-12.

All most all the television show depict violence in one form or another. If an average child watches 2 to 4 hours of television a day, then by the time he/she is in high school he/she would have seen over 8,000 murders and more than 100,000 acts of violence. Recent research acknowledges that televised violence is related to the aggressive behavior of many children and adolescents. The major new factor responsible for this is the marketing of visual media violence to kids.

Journal Artcile

Heins, Marjorie. "Violence and the Media." First Amendment Center (2007): 50-62.

Hardly any parents or teachers have any thought about the video games that their children play. A lot of the teachers and psychologists have labeled video games as being harmful and whirling young players into under developed and bothered geeks who waste hours on end socially inaccessible in their bedrooms.

Provenzo, E.F., Jr. The Video Generation. "American School Board Journal" 179, 2002. 441-136.

Video games are one of the most recent forms of mass media to come under attack. Critics have charged that video games. It is helping to desensitize them and ...