Video Games and Violence Literature Review

Anderson, Craig & Dill, Karen, 2000 states that there is a clear relation to increase aggression and violence when people play violent video games. They also state that in their experiment where they aloud students to play two type of games (Wolfenstein- a violent game and Myth- a non violent game) that when the students were being blasted or attacked by other students they was getting annoyed and aggressive as they allowed the students to pick a noise if they win a battle. The result from them was picking a noise lead to people who were losing making a louder noise when they eventually won.

However Jackson, Paul 2007 thinks that the gaming industry is often blamed for everything negative that comes out of all media and thinks that they are very responsible and keen on creating games that are suitable for the intended age group. Also Braben, David 2007 thinks that gaming tends to get singled out for these acquisitions and believes that research only takes into account gaming, only one type of media that people use.

Aidman, Amy 2005 believes that boys incorporate violence from early stages of their development from all types of media (TV,Games etc). She believes that boys (Almost half from her study of 70 boys) incorporate violence, threat and conflict from media and incorporate that into their imaginary worlds.

Anderson, Craig & Dill, Karen - Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts 2000 on About.com

Jackson, Paul and Braben, David- Games Study Violence is Launched- Article

Aidman, Amy – Media and the Make Believe World of Children – Book published 2005

Mind Map of some Topics that are going to be in Report

Here are some of the topics that are going to be addressed in my video games and violence report

Reflection on your learning style

The Vark Questionaaire aims to find out something about peoples preferences for the way people work with information. Different people will have a preffered learning style and one part of that learning style is peoples preferences for the intake and output of ideas and information.

My results from the Vark Questionairre are as followed

• Visual: 2
  
• Aural: 9
• Read/Write: 6
  
• Kinesthetic: 1

As you can see from my results it shows that I am a Aural Learner which means that I prefer to listen to the intake and output of ideas and information.

I have to disagree with the findings of this Questionairre. I learn better from actually doing activities (Kinesthetic), reading books and writing up notes (Read/Write) and actually seeing the information and what has to be done (Visual). I would actually say the Aural Learning Style is my weakest point as sometimes I find it hard to listen for long peroids.

I am not sure that the Vark Questionnaire is a effective tool in evaluating your preferable learning styles as the Questions to be answered seemed to vague. However to be a effective learner you have to learn all the styles of learning and the Vark Questionnaire has made me re-evaluate my worst learning style(Aural as talked about above) and made me want to work on this weakness even though it said it was my Preferred Learning Style