Monday, 10 February 2014

unit 6 assignment 3 notes

this assignment is all about how video games affect the audience

The gaming industry has lots of negative media coverage.

Violent games make violent people

Need to know what we think.

Why video games are being accused of making someone violent

the affects model

find links to video games and violent behavoir

What is the opisitional reading of video games  (target audience) (news atricle's) (politicans) (parents groups)

positive impacts of games  (Educational games)



Negative effects-Call of Duty:
                                   
very strong violence with very real sound affects which sound like women and children screming constatnly throughout the mission.

guns and explostions with blood coming on the screen when the player is shot


Unit 6 Assignment 3 Prezi:

In grandtheft auto 5 running someone over

Running people over, killing people, beating them up with weapons, shooting them, blood is shown to make something violent.

Violence that is there for entertainment purposes Gratuious, Desensitisation ( you have an audience have seen that much violence it doesnt bother you.

Effects model is a thoery it can be wrong. hyperdermic needle, syringe theory (passive just happens)





http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/8-year-old-boy-played-violent-video-game-killed-90-year-old-woman-charged-cops-article-1.1435828


Moral panic:  video games are the new scape goat to blame bad things which happen on instead of horror films.





Green street hooligans

shocked music didnt fit the scene really violent and strong language very bad media image for influencing violence.

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