Unit 6 assignment 3 notes

Why do you play video games?
When you have nothing to do
Being competitive
Social (virtual)
Entertainment
Accomplishment
Virtual reality

This assignment is about the effects of the audience -
Violent games make violent people
need to know what we think - opinionated
Find things why people are made to be violent
read articles

The article has to talk about the effects model
The fist bullet point is a work sheet that we will do in class
Get a list of games that have linked to violent behaviour - and find the complaints
oppositional reading of general video games - find negative readings of video games- news articles - videos from

Research about positive video games
Educational games - brain training - wii fit
Give your opinion about certain video games - good and bad
Have a debate about effects model - any relevance to video game
Link to all video links or anything you read that has helped you come to an opinion

Negative effects - Call Of Duty
Shooting innocent un armed people
Showing the dead people lay in a pool of their own blood
Hearing the loud screams of woman and children
Blood slaters on the screens
Grandes
The amount of people that die
Shooting a police
Terrorists

What was the last violent act in a media product?
it was a film called whitehouse down There shooting,hostages,grandees,blood,death
What do you define as a violent acts?
Shooting, things with blood,stabbing, punching,kicking
Gratuitous -
violence that is there to enjoy ,
entertainment
Informative - 
the violence should inform the audience
Desensitisation
The audience has seen so much violence the audience don't care or even find it funny
Effects model 

This is a theory which is an idea the media would effect how people behaved

This is sometimes the hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe because the frankfurt school believe the media injects the audience with ideas

This makes the audience passive  

Discuss if the effects model is relevant 

For some people if they already have some issues then they might be more prone

http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/videogame-call-of-duty-influenced-oslo-murders - Man kills 77 people because of Call of Duty Modern war fair 2
Moral panic is creating a panic about something whats happened to create panic

Video games are good for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_video_games
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/top-10-fitness-video-games/
Call of duty - helps improve eye sight
Brian academy helps memory
Mind craft - helps to be creative
Sprax helps cure depression
xbox kinect - fitness
Nentendogs -  helps look after pets
wii fit - helps improve fitness
Brain training- competitive - want to improve brain age
Cooking mama - helps people cook
super Mario brother - increase motor skills
Zumba - helps fitness and you can do this from your own home

There is no prof that video games make to violent

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

 White house down

Makes us feel entertained because there is lots of action throughout the movie but also shocked because of how much it features in the film.