środa, 21 października 2009

Literature Review

The articles I am reviewing suggest a link between the repeated playing of video games and display of anti-social behaviour and/or criminal behaviour. Scott Daugherty describes an 18-years-old Burnie who was sentenced to seven years in prison after driving at two boys. Burnie stated that he was inspired by Grand Theft Auto into perfoming a 'door check',(opening the driver's door whilst moving at high speed to cause an impact with pedestrians). DolphGB, a contributor to the PS3 Attitude Forum suggest in his article that there is no such thing as 'door checking' in GTA and that in the Burnie case this was not a contributory factor.

Craig Anderson states that there is a significant relationship between playing video games and aggressive behaviour but it doesn't have to be the only factor. There can be many other issues such as biological factors, family factors, neighborhood factors, and so on.

References

DolphGB 2009 www.ps3attitude.com
Daugherty, S 2009 The Capital www.hometownannapolis.com
Anderson, C 2003 The Influence of media violence on youth

2 komentarze:

  1. An interesting literature review, you have provided the name of the person you are citing in the text but not the date. You must give the year that the article was written.

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