GAD Year 2 Blog: Change in CS Idea

After Struggling with my Animal Cruelty essay, I decided to change my idea slightly. This is my new title:

Looking from a sociological and psychological perspective, can Violent Video games encourage Violent behaviour?

This is the research I conducted into this idea:

Past research shows that violent video game exposure increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal, aggressive behaviours, and decreases helpful behaviour. However, no research has experimentally examined violent video game effects on physiological desensitization, defined as showing less physiological arousal to violence in the real world after exposure to video game violence in the virtual world.

http://lol.medieraadet.dk/upload/mulige_aasager_social_hensynsloeshed.pdf

Evidence suggests that long-term players of violent games may become more likely to react aggressively to unintentional provocations such as someone accidentally bumping into them, they added.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214346/Violent-video-games-make-teens-aggressive-girls-affected-boys.html

Sociological study on the influence of media on adolescents.

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/26/perceptions-of-media-influence-on-self-and-others/

Mass media effect

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED246460&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED246460

Max Weber on violence

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Monopoly_on_the_legitimate_use_of_physical_force.html

The columbine shootings

http://www.howstuffworks.com/video-game-violence.htm

Decrease in shootings in foreign countries who play the same games.

http://www.richmondreview.com/lifestyles/206047261.html

Study on teens