Videogame Violence
Essays

On January 13, 2007, thousands of television viewers watched a late night news program in horror as two teenagers were shown beating a homeless man to death with baseball bats. The incident, caught on surveillance…

The growing social phenomenons' regarding violence among children and especially such heinous crimes as murder is beginning to startle the culture as a whole. The world, not the just the United States is desperately…

Violent Video Games Don't Cause Kids to be Violent Introduction Do violent video games cause young people to become violent after playing the video games? This has been a hot topic of debate in the United States for several years. There are valid opinions on both sides of the issue, but this paper takes the position that violent video games do not cause kids to be violent.

The objective of this work is to write a research proposal relating to the effects of media on culture.

Guiding Question: Should the government have to be involved in legislation regarding video game content?

Italy is a cultural hub of gender identity where issues of feminism and masculinism have been deeply entrenched for many years. For centuries Italy has been considered a more masculine country, though the majority of…

¶ … Speed (NFS), the popular racing game that has arrived, I think, at its eighth version already (without mentioning sidetracks such as Need for Speed Underground). The game is highly successful and it incorporates…

Video Games were first introduced in the 1970s and rapidly caught on as a major leisure activity especially among children within a decade. Children these days spend more time watching TV or playing video games than any…

This essay examines the imperial practice of extraterritoriality in the cross-media character of James Bond. By tracking how Bond exercises extraterritorial liberty across media and time, one is able to see how the justifications for that liberty change. In particular, one can see how the justifications for Bond's extraterritoriality shift from the lingering assumptions of colonial Britain to the overblown rhetoric of the War on Terror.

¶ … Violence in Web-Based and Computer Games on Adolescents