University of Michigan claims media violence is second only to smoking in terms of public health danger
A recent study by Professor Rowell Huesmann of the University of Michigan has claimed that viewers of violent TV and video games are more susceptible to increased aggression, according to Science Daily.
"Exposure to violent electronic media has a larger effect than all but one other well-known threat to public health,” the report reads.
“The only effect slightly larger than the effect of media violence on aggression is that of cigarette smoking on lung cancer.
"Our lives are saturated by the mass media, and for better or worse, violent media are having a particularly detrimental effect on the well-being of children. Children are also spending an increasingly large amount of time playing videogames, most of which contain violence. Videogame units are now present in 83 percent of homes with children.”
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That sounds like fighting talk to me. :)
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Well, blame the parents them not the games. I'm 30 years old and have been playing games since I was about 7, including so called violent ones, but I turned into the biggest pacifist there is. There weren't violent games around when I was very young admittedly but I know if there were I wouldn't have been allowed to play them.
Game makers make the violent games for people of my age, parents shouldn't be so stupid and naive to buy 15 & 18 rated games for their young children and then blame the game makers. There are enough kiddy games around like Mario for them, yet they continue to pick up games with high ratings off the shelves, with images of guys with guns on the cover and then try and plead that they didn't know it was violent. Parents are so dumb sometimes.
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Soooooooo obesity, drug abuse and alcohol abuse don't make it but video games do....... interesting!!
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I'd love to know the methodology of this study, generally when you scratch the surface of most sociological studies you find that the methodology used is akin to that of dropping a ******ed hedgehog into a tank of piranhas to study the impact of water on mammals...
Th fact is that most start with the still unproven assumption that the media effects model actually works. This is just "common sense" which as any decent scientists will tell you is a very bad thing to start with. The notion that if you keep accelerating there will be no limit to your speed is common sense, but it's also false...
Also, lets not forget the terrible impact of rock and roll, and in ages past, bicycles...
And with a little looking...
Ah a meta study, which is where you just take whatever results everyone else over the years got and ma**** into a result...if only I could get paid for such useless stuff.
Self publicist rubbish.
It is about time that someone did a study into games being a catharsis, thus reducing violence amongst players.
The biggest correlation of violence and exposure of young children must be television cartoons. From birth almost children are propped in front of the one eyed childminder. This is something that demands a government enquiry led by a TV presenter. Michael Barrymore, for instance.
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utter nonesense. what kinda of idiot "scientist" comes up with this stuff. I've been playing violent videogames all my life and it hasn't hurt me. They really are stupid. It makes me wanna kill them all. Now where's my BFG?
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