In a long term study done by Dmitri Williams, he states that their is "No Link between Games and Violence." The study showed that after playing a game called Asheron's Call 2 their was no difference in behavior between the people who played the game and those who didn't. Now in my research of the game, the game doesn't look violent to a stand point. It has some violent content but is not violent to the point of a game like Grand Theft Auto or Gears of War. This game, Asheron's Call 2, is something like Runescape. Not very violent but has some content like fighting people with swords and other medieval weapons.
But a greater thing is happening. While researching for graphs about video game violence increase, it shows something else. Tom Wright stated,
"I think it's interesting to note that when you step outside of an experimental setting, and you graph the rate of video game usage (which I assume has been going up over the last ten years) along with the rate of juvenile violent crime (which has been dropping over the last ten years), you get a different picture. I certainly don't mean to imply that violent video games turn us into pacifists, but neither do I see an overall negative effect on society" (Wright ).
Now that is really weird cause if that is true then is video game violence actually affecting the violent acts of our youth and the adults that lose contact with the real world and their fantasy becomes a reality to them. But so far there is a line between the argument of Video game violence and Real World violence.
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Terdiman, Daniel. "Study: No link between games and violence." 12 07 2005 12 05 2008
Wright, Tom. "Video games and violent crime." 29 03 2007 12 05 2008
1 comment:
Eric there are many people that say video games are the thing taht is driving this world into the ground.The violence in games are not the proablem people they use video games as a cover or there past.Eric let me now if u answer the qustion.
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