Annotated+Bibliography

1.)Rich, Micheal, Dr. "How do video games affect behavior? ." //Youtube//. Web. 24 Sept. 2010. . Information: Micheal Rich is an MD and is also the Director of the Center for media and Child Health. It is an oral presentation of how he believes video games affect behavior in children.

Summary: Micheal argues that video games are a big cause of violent behavior in children. He has done several studies and he also covers how repetition is a contributing factor to behavior. He did research with a few children and came to the conclusion, children that play violent video games are more likely to express violent behavior.

Evaluation: The work is logical and very well-researched He stays with the topic very well and doesn't stray to much. The Arthur seems to take an unbiased stance and seems to be opened to other opinions.

Reflection: This oral presentation got me thinking about a lot of different things. This presentation helped me realize repetition is how children learn, and violently killing another player over and over is a form of learning repetition it can impact on how children think.

//During Development//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2010. Summary The Author thesis is to explain how video games have beneficial and negative effects on a child's developing mind. The author states that kids who have played more violent video games have expressed more violent behaviors
 * 2.) || Kooijmans, Thomas. //Effects of Video Games on Aggressive Thoughts and Behaviors//

Evaluation The work is very well researched The topic is done well and gets right to the point The author shows negative and positive effects and shows an unbiased view

Reflection I learned that not all video games have negative effects on small minded || 3.)//Jory Junacoba//: 6 Oct. 2010. Summary Jory explains the ages of common use of video games and what it means for there impression She has written several articles on the subject and has great knowledge of in the field of children studies

Evaluation It was an easy read and it was well organized She seems to have an unbiased view even with having kids of her own she can see the points of others

Reflection Video games are most commonly used by males of the ages 8-16 Most kids play around 13 hours a week i also need to search behavioral scripts

4.)CNN News, Anne Harding. "Violent video games linked to child aggression." //CNN// //HEALTH//: n. page. Web. 14 Oct. 2010. Information: The author of this paper is a well known journalist for CNN. The intended audience are viewers of CNN news. Summary: The author has a biased opinion that video games contribute to aggression in children from the ages of 8-15. She argues that children who spend more time playing violent video games tend to act in more aggressive manners towards peers and others. She has interviewed Dr. Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., of Iowa State who did a study showing how children and teen's video game habits at one time point related to their behavior three to six months later. Evaluation: I think the author wrote a great editorial on aggression in video games. But i feel like her stand point is to bias and close minded. She only interviewed one man who also had a bias view. The topic was clear and right to the point and it was a great read in spite of her bias stand point. Reflection: I did however learn something very interesting. Americans are not the only country suffering from the ordeal of children acting violently because of video games. It is also something very significant in other countries as well as ours. That is not something i was aware of and can defiantly mention in my paper.

5.) Kutztown University, DR Milevsky. "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhkQG9amWk." Address. Information: The person who did this study is a student in a children psych class and did this for a class room project. The purpose of this video is to show that children who play violent video games lead to aggressive behavior.

Summary: The creator of this video seems to have an unbiased view on their topic and are simply stating a question and looking for an answer. The question is" Does playing violent video games cause violent behavior?" It was concluded from what she saw with her own eyes that violent video games do in fact contribute to aggression in children.

Evaluation: The work she did is straight forward, Let one kid play a violent game and see how he reacts with another kid who doesn't. She seemed to have a good idea in what she was doing. She also seems to be very unbiased in her study. She simply asked a question and looked for an answer, definitely something i will refer to.

Reflection: This source was great information. It was short and sweet and was evidence that i could see that violent games in fact does contribute to aggressive behavior. . 6) Anderson, Criag A. //Effects of Violence in Video Games//. Ed. Craig ANDERSON. //http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/Talks/2001/SPSP.pdf//. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. Information: The athor of this informative paper is the president of the Society of Personality and Social Psycology.

Summary: The Author states that all violent material including TV shows, Movies, and Video games cause violent behavior. Not just video games The author argues that wether a person is contributing to the voilence I.e Video games. Or watching it on the big screen. It still impacts them and it influences what action the child perform.

Evaluation: The work is clear and very well researched and is well done. its seems like an ubiased view and he is very motivated and strongly belives that all media can cause violence

Reference: This source was great i learned that not just doing soemthing can make you act violently. seeing things alone can also influence your actions.

7.)Funk, Jeanne. //Exposure to Violent Video Games and Desensitization to Violence in// //Children and Adolescents//. Diss. N.p.: n.p., n.d. //http://videogames.procon.org/sourcefiles/Funkscripts.pdf//. Web. 18 Oct. 2010. Information: Department of Psychology, University of Toledo This report talks about desensitization

Summary: The writer argues that violent video games contribute to desensitization The main argument is that the writer believes that children that are subjected to violent types of games show less emotion and are less sensitive A study the writer did was subject a child to violent video games for a certain amount of time while another child was not. The child who was not playing the video games showed more compassion for the object at hand.

Evaluation: The work of the author is very clear and unbias The writer was a part of a study that they allowed a child to play video games and another to read a book. She then showed the children a video of a cow being slaughtered. The child who was recently killing aliens on a popular game named " Half-Life2" was exstatic and thought it was "cool" the other child cried. Reflection: I had no idea what desensitization was. And I learned about it. I can use it during my project and presentation.

8.) SCHMIDGALL, Alicia. //EFFECT OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES ON AGGRESSION//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. . Information DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY The author did a study about violent video games

Summary The author did a study exposing 10 people to violent video games and 10 people to non voiolent video games then mad them do a test. The autho belives that not all video games contribute to agression just violent ones ad he is trying to what happens. When the test results came in thy found out that the most agrsson was in the men who played te violet video games. Although men playng any game showed moe violence then the women

Evaluaton The work is verry well researched and is a great study. The work is as unbiased as a study can be and the author of this paper made every effort to clearly state what he was aiming for during this study.

Reflection I learned that not only violent video games casue aggression, But any video game in general that cause frustration can cause violence.

9.) Huesman, Rowell, and Laurie Miller. //LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF REPEATED EXPOSURE TO// //MEDIA VIOLENCE IN CHILDHOOD// . N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. Information: The Author of this paper is the Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology, University of Michigan. THe writer did this to prove that exposer to violence in media can cause lots of long term issues. Summary: The Author belives that violent media contributes to long term violent thoughts. He argues that exposing children to those kind of violent images on games or on the big screen can cause long term mental issues for the child when they grow older. He also belive that prolong use of theese violent media images can cause a loss of empathy in the childs mind. The AUthor refers to the increase and crime rate over the last 20 years in populated city areas and analysis them with the increase in sale of violent games and concludes that there is some connection between the two. Evaluation: I love the edtor's work in this report. i especialy like how they have his lside notes on the paper and you can get a good look at his opinion. The author kind of goes off topic talking about the news and things like that but it isnt much of an issue but he does seem to have abias view towards media being at great blam for agression. Reflection: This is an intrestion source. It's states that Canadians are exposed to just as many violent video games yet their crime rate is less then 50% of that in the united states, so maybe it isnt al video games yet something that is on the TV?

10.) My 10 source I did it a bit diffrently. I interviewd my friend who, along with me, is greatly addicted to video games. I Interviewd my friend Charlie Mickles and he seems to feel verry strongly about this topic. Charlie states" I am a 17 year old high school student who has never even as so muched punched a kid, On my spare timei build robots and I play xbox 360 titles knowns as, Gears of War and Call of Duty, Wich are widly known for their violence and hardcore blood splatters". I asked charlie why people link aggression to video games and this is what he said," People as a whole look for things to blame, it gives them comfort and it just lets them blame something/someone. So when people see on the news that there was a violent soot in Columbine they automaticly assume it had something to do with violent games. I mean of course no one looks at the childrens mental stae, parents or friends or lack there of. It's simple. For the most part everyone has played a video game one time or another and its easy to blame something we all have in common." So talking to charlie it was opened up a bit more to me that maybe video games don't actualy cause violence in children as a while. But more so it may affect people diffrently. Sort of like prescription meds or things like that.