Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

"Do Violent Video Games Boost Aggression? Study Adds Fire to Debate."Fox News. FOX News Network, 25 Mar. 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

                      This is an article from a journal done by Fox news. That makes this a credible source that includes evidence from studies done by scientists and the refute of other scientists. This article shows research that supports the belief that exposure to violence in videogames leads to more aggressive behavior in children later. The opposing side claims that there is no link what so ever and that these studies have flaws in them. Then there is a section of the article that speaks to the parents about having to decide what is best for their own family and respecting the decisions of other families. This is a suggestion that violence in video games has a different effect on everyone. Some may be greatly influenced while others may have no effect at all. This may prove the research flawed or define a new kind of test for scientists to evaluate with more accurate results.

"Violent Video Games Don't Lead to Increases In Violent Crimes, Study Finds." GameSpot. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.

                     

                      This is a more recent article, from this year, from a gaming website about a recent study on violence in video games. This refutes the studies trying to prove a connection between violence in video games and violent behavior in children and teens. This article shows that video game, both with and without violence, have increased sales dramatically.  What the studies on behavior often don’t mention that this article does is that violent crimes in teens have been on the decline as the sales of these games goes up. This means more people are exposed to the violence and this is becoming common for people to play violent video games and fewer teens committing crimes. This may be contributed to the violence in the games creating an environment for the violence to occur. The article claims that playing these violent games have no association with behavior or crimes as most people have played them making the studies irrelevant.

Carey, Benedict. "Shooting in the Dark." The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2014.

This article is from the New York Times which is a very well know source making it a credible place for information. This online article talks about different studies that have been conducted to find the connection between aggressive or violent behavior and violence in video games. In one study covered by this research the scientists found that high crime in teens were higher about a month after a spike in video game sales. This is thought to be the aggression coming after playing these games. Some studies were done about giving someone hot sauce after others playing the game Mortal Combat. The general analysis was that the ones who played the game were more aggressive about giving the person the hot sauce. This is said to show the immediate correlation between the game and aggressive behavior. Overall this article is covering multiple experiments showing a relation between violent behavior and violence in video games.

            ProCon.org. "Violent Video Games ProCon.org" ProCon.org. 6 Oct. 2014. Web. 22 Oct. 2014. <http://videogames.procon.org/>.

All the pros and cons are listed in this article about violence in video games contributing to violence in youth today. It gives facts about the amount of games sold to different ages. It also gives many statistics about the increase of video games sold over all. This is a credible source and has its own testimonials page with many credible people advocating the use of this site including many well-known figures such as Time magazine. This website also gives other pro and con issues and shows both sides to the argument. At the end of the article this page also shows all of the sources and documents used in creating these pros and cons. This shows many people who are against the violence in video games and why, but also the people who refute the opposing side and why. Many of the sources used in this document are studies and documents form previous years that are credible and produced by scientists, giving more credible sources to these factual sides.