Violent Video Games: Harmful or Not?

Miller, M. C. (2011). Violent video games: Harmful or not? (). Norwalk: Belvoir Media Group, LLC. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/docview/1370178962?accountid=14473

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The article "Violent Video Games: Harmful or Not" by Michael Craig Miller informs us how violent video games can be harmful and how parents can protect their children from potential harm from video games. Miller gives a brief explanation and examples on how video games can be harmful to children. To support his theory, Miller provided evidence on how video games can be harmful.

Advantages of Playing Video Games

Monica Villa for Babble.com. 7 Reasons Why Your Kids Why Your Kids Should Play Video Games. Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/babblecom/reasons-why-your-kids_b_2664141.html

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Most parents thinks that video games are bad for their children because of the blood and gore, intense violence, strong sexual content, and the use of drugs in most games. In the article “7 Reasons Why Your Kids Should Play Video Games” by Monica Villa talks about the advantages of playing video games for children. Villa said, “studies have consistently shown that the benefit of video gaming can far overweigh the perceived negatives. Although we all know that gaming should certainly be supervised, there are good reasons why you should let your kids spend few hours a week building cities or battling aliens.” (Villa, 2013). Playing video games with your children might help your relationship to become stronger and you will get a better understand of the content, and how your kids while spending time with your children. Also, Villa mentions that video games teach problem solving, video games are social, video games provide positive reinforcement, video games teach strategic thinking, video games build teamwork, video games improve hand-eye coordination, and video games bring families together.

Violent gaming can effect your child

Do Violent Games Cause Behavior Problems in Teens?

Stephen Maughan, Demand Media. Do violent video games cause behavior problems in teens? Retrieved from:http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/violent-games-cause-behavior-problems-teens-1142.html

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The topic of the essay is the cause of violent video games on teen’s behavior. The writer’s purpose is to inform us those violent video games causes addiction, violence as normality, positive behavior, and other factors. The author claims that teenagers who continuously play video games are more likely to become withdrawn. Video games also increase teenagers’ feelings of aggression and antisocial behavior in teenagers, regardless of their sex. Video games could also produce positive behavior on teenagers because some video games involves helping or saving others and this triggers teenagers the urge to help other people. The writer argues "on top of excessive video gaming, there is usually a combination of different factors at play such as low self-esteem, antisocial friendship groups and an insecure family life." (Maughan, p. 5). The usefulness of this article is that it gives me the positive and the negative aspect of violent video games to teenagers. The article also specifically states that video games cause addiction, violence as normality, positive behavior, and other factors.

"Games" by Steven Johnson

The article "Games" by Steven Johnson talks about how video games and books. Johnson argues that video games can be good and bad for children because it may promote eye-hand coordination in children, and video games can also promote aggression and violent responses to conflict. Johnson also brought up McLuhan’s observation about "the problem with judging new cultural systems on their own terms is that the presence of the recent past inevitably colors your vision of the emerging form, highlighting the flaws and imperfections"(Johnson, 2011). In this generation more and more gadgets are coming out that distracts children and takes most of their time. But if we all think about it most parents thinks that all new things are bad for children weather its a type of gadget or a type of clothing style. Johnson mentioned a thought experiment where video games were invented before books; what would parents, teachers and cultural authorities would say about reading? In my opinion Steven Johnson article has a very valid point on how most people judge newly invented objects. I also think that if video games were invented before book everyone will say that books are not good for children because books isolates children from the outside world and it prevents kids to socialize with other people. Books require its reader's full attention to engage with the reading. I personally think that we should balance our time between reading and gaming. I honestly think that parents should let their kids play during the day and read before bedtime; Because having your reading skills in place will help us in the long run especially most employers hire people with a great reading skills.