Clip of no russian from Call of duty
Discussion on violent video games and hypodermic needle
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Task: Create a blog post titled Unit 6 assignment 3 research about violent games; find 3 - 5 video games that have been linked to violent behaviour, you should try to link to videos, newspaper articles or websites to explain what was the blamed linked to. This will help you with your article for your assignment
Feedback to small groups one of your video games and what you found out about it
I showed class my list of video games linked to violent behaviour and the daily mail article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2246478/Playing-violent-video-games-just-20-minutes-day-encourage-aggressive-behaviour.html
Class discussion: why are video games good for you?
Individual task, try and find some proof of video games being good for you and add your links to your post underneath the stuff on violent games
Preferred and oppositional meaning recap: preferred = agree with oppositional = diasgree with.
Can you have one or the other or both readings of different games?
I have a preferred reading to Alien colonial marines and Halo, I like to blow stuff up in game. I have an oppositional reading to the game KZ Manager which was about concentration camps and you decided who to murder, that was appalling in my opinion and disgusted me
Articles about video games adn moral panics you can quote in your blog post
http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/448017_2
http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/01/study-moral-panic-behind-attempts-to-link-games-violence/
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-07-01/news/os-ed-violent-video-games-070111-20110630_1_violent-video-games-youth-violence-moral-panic
Teaching notes that go with the prezi
The Frankfurt school, set up in 1923, were concerned about the possible effects of mass media. They proposed the "Effects" model, which considered society to be made up of i individuals who were easily influenced by the media in that it would alter their behaviour. The Frankfurt school saw the media as a syringe, and the contents of the media were injected into the thoughts of the audience, who just accepted the attitudes, opinions and beliefs in the programmes, films etc and allowed it to change their behaviour. Researchers in the 1950s were concerned over increases in the showing of violent acts on television, which, they said correlated with increases in violent acts in society. In the 1990s, there was considerable concern over what were called "video nasties". these were graphic horror films with lots of blood and gore. The tabloid papers created a moral panic over whether particular violet films could influence child behaviour – and whether Childs Play 3 influenced the child killers of Jamie Bulger.
MORAL PANIC
A moral panic means creating a panic about something that is seen to be damaging our society
A Moral Panic is part of a cycle, a scapegoat is used to blame an issue on; then people are persuaded that this issue is happening everywhere; increasing the panic and never really solving the problem.
Video games breed violent behaviour is an example of a moral panic, often crimes appear so horrible that the media look to try and make sense out of why someone could commit such an awful crime, society looks for a scapegoat and Video Games are often blamed. There is not really any proof to suggest that video games make people violent and a lot of media coverage is based on rumour and suggestions.
List of Video Games linked to violent behaviour
Many incidents that are speculated to be related to video games in recent decades have helped fuel controversy.
- On November 22, 1997, thirteen-year-old Noah Wilson died when his friend stabbed him in the chest with a kitchen knife. The mother of Noah, alleged that her son was stabbed to death because of an obsession with the game Mortal Kombat.
- On April 20, 1999, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher in the Columbine High School massacre. The two were allegedly obsessed with the video game Doom.
- In April 2000, 16-year-old Spanish teenager José Rabadán Pardo murdered his father, mother and his sister with a katana, proclaiming that he was on an "avenging mission" by Squall Leonhart, the main character of the video game Final Fantasy VIII.
- In February 2003, 16-year-old American Dustin Lynch was charged with aggravated murder and made an insanity defense that he was "obsessed" with Grand Theft Auto III.
- On June 7, 2003, 18-year-old American Devin Moore shot and killed two policemen and a dispatcher after grabbing one of the officers' weapons following an arrest for the possession of a stolen vehicle. At trial, the defense claimed that Moore had been inspired by the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
- On June 25, 2003, two American step brothers, aged 14 and 16 used a rifle to fire at vehicles killing a 45-year-old man and wounding a 19-year-old woman. The two shooters told investigators they had been inspired by Grand Theft Auto III.
- On February 27, 2004 in Leicester, UK, 17-year-old Warren Leblanc lured 14-year-old Stefan Pakeerah into a park and murdered him by stabbing him repeatedly with a claw hammer and knife. Leblanc was reportedly obsessed with Manhunt.
- In October 2007 in Ohio, 16-year-old Daniel Petric shot his mother and wounded his father. Defense attorneys argued that Petric was influenced by video game addiction, and committed the murder following the fact that his parents had taken the game away from him, the court dismissed these claims.
- In December 2007, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts and 16-year-old Heather Trujillo were accused of beating a seven-year-old girl to death. They are said to have been imitating the moves taken from the game Mortal Kombat.
- In December 2007, a Russian man was beaten to death over an argument in the MMORPG Lineage II. The man was killed when his guild and a rival one challenged each other to a real-life brawl.
- In June 2008, four teens allegedly obsessed with Grand Theft Auto IV went on a crime spree. They first robbed a man, knocking his teeth out and then they stopped a woman driving a black BMW and stole her car and her cigarettes.
- In May 2010, French gamer Julien Barreaux located and stabbed a fellow player who had stabbed Barreaux in the game Counter-Strike. The judge at his trial called him "a menace to society."
- On April 9, 2011 in The Netherlands, 24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in a shopping mall, releasing more than a hundred bullets with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, killing 6 people and wounding 17 others, after which he also killed himself.A fair amount of attention was given to the fact that Van Der Vlis had been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and to the alleged similarities between these events and the controversial "No Russian" mission in the game, where the player can choose to (or choose not to) partake in the killing of a large group of innocent people inside an airport terminal.
- On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik perpetrated the 2011 Norway Attacks, detonating a car bomb in the executive government quarter, and then travelled to a summer camp for teenagers, where he proceeded to stalk and kill a large number of people. 77 people were killed in the attacks. Anders himself admitted in court that he had deliberately used the 2009 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to train for the attacks, specifically by practicing his aim using a "holographic aiming device".
- After the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, initial media reports mis-identified the shooter as Ryan Lanza, the brother of the true perpetrator. After discovering that Ryan had liked Mass Effect on Facebook, an Internet mob immediately attacked the game's Facebook page, labelling the developers "child killers".[147] Once it was discovered that it was his brother, Adam, who had carried out the massacre, initial news stories claimed a link to two video games, Starcraft and Dance Dance Revolution, neither of which are on the more violent end of the spectrum.[ After a UK tabloid claimed that Lanza had a Call of Duty obsession, this was widely repeated across the Internet. Subsequently, a small town near Sandy Hook organized the collection and burning of video games in exchange for a gift certificate. The official investigation report, released November 25, 2013, discussed video games only briefly in the 48-page report and did not suggest they contributed to Lanza's motive. The report revealed that Lanza played a variety of video games, although he was most fond of non-violent video games such as Dance, Dance Revolution and Super Mario Brothers.
- On Wednesday March 24, 2012, 14 year-old Noah Crooks was accused of shooting his, 32 year-old mother; Gretchen Crooks During the dispatch call to 911 shortly following the murder, Crooks revealed that Gretchen Crooks had taken away his 'Call Of Duty' video game because his grades got bad and that is why he snapped.
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