Digital Story

http://prezi.com/i7s1e0lq3qlc/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

FYS Digital Storyboard

http://prezi.com/x0tfj6kajxiu/how-video-games-change-childrens-behavior/

Edward Snowden: Traitor or Patriot Article

http://eaglerising.com/1174/edward-snowden-patriot-or-traitor/ (Link to article)

This article summarizes if Eric Snowden is an actual traitor to this country. If people believe in the NSA, then people should believe that he is most certainly a traitor. This article is very interesting that explains about Eric Snowden and the Obama Administration as well.

Coca, Onan. "Edward Snowden: Patriot or Traitor?" Eagle Rising. N.p., 13 Aug. 2013. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.

My opinion of gender roles

Since we did a Prezi about gender roles in class, I thought I give my own opinion about gender roles in advertisements. When I saw the video with the advertisements, there were some awkward moments in the pictures. Most of the awkward moments came from the vulnerable positions from the females. I remember one picture of three guys and one girl with the guy holding her on the ground in a firm position. This resembles that the males have power and it leaves the ladies vulnerable. Most of these pictures I never saw before, and to see these pictures for the first time, it was kind of surprising.  

In the video, they described some of the pictures as uncomfortable to some extent. I disagree with this statement because some of the pictures look very natural and beautiful. They describe the positions with detail and they mostly talk about the females. They talked about the touching, coloring, clothing, etc. Most of the pictures show great detail, as they try to sell the product.

The last thing I found interesting is that most of the models in the pictures are fake. They take ordinary people to take the pictures and as soon as they are done with the pictures, they edit them with photo shop to make the models perfect. I really didn’t realize this until now. Now when I look at current advertisements, I’m going to look at it twice and see if it looks real or not. Overall, the advertisements seem natural to me; however a few percent of them are bizarre.

Digital Story Annotated Bibliography

1.    Foster, Cormac. "Do Violent Video Games Really Cause Violent Behavior?" ReadWrite. N.p., 31 Dec. 2012. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.

A.                  The main point of this article was to show if this myth was actually true. They did experiments on certain types of video games, to see if it actually causes aggressiveness. The main experiment they tested was three video games that were called The Legend Of Zelda, Grand Theft Auto, and Missile Command. In the last section of the article, they said there is not enough evidence to make a conclusion if video games really cause violent behavior. I agree with this statement because people could react in different ways while playing violent video games. I chose this article because I’m going to compare different games that have violence and see how they change people’s attitude.

2.    DeNoon, Daniel J. "Do Video Games Really Spark Bad Behavior?" Fox News. FOX News Network, 19 Aug.           2005. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.

B.                  This article is a little similar to the article written by Cormac Foster. This article tells us readers that they tested the video game called Asheron’s Call 2 to see if causes a change in behavior as well.  As a result, it did show aggressiveness after a short-play. This proved to show that some video games do cause a change in behavior. They lastly tell us that most of the aggressiveness comes from the younger age group of kids such as 12 years old or younger. I chose this article because it caught my interest to see why violent video games cause more aggressiveness in young children.

3.    Keim, Brandon. "What Science Knows About Video Games and Violence." PBS. PBS, 28 Feb. 2013.      Web. 16 Nov. 2013.

C.                   This article summarizes the science behind the violence of video games. The more violent they are the more emotional changes will arise within children. This article is very interesting because it talks mostly about the first person shooter games. It says that it causes the most aggression within kids because of the gore and gameplay. I chose this article because I play first-person shooters and I can talk my experiences playing them.

4.    McGraw, Phil. "Dr. Phil.com - Advice - Children and Violent Video Games." Dr. Phil.com-Advice-      Children and Violent Video Games. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2013.

D.                  This article written by Dr. Phil tells parents how they can prevent their children from getting aggressive when playing video games. They can limit their time so they don’t get very involved or not let them play violent video games in general. I chose this article because I’m going to explain how aggressiveness can be prevented within in children, so they can grow up to become better adults.

Gender Roles in Advertising (Prezi)

http://prezi.com/zzyiprdjocr3/gender-roles-and-uncomfortable-poses/#

Digital Story Part 1

People in their free time usually do activities such as; watching television, hanging out friends, doing homework, or playing video games. They all sound great activities to do in a short period of time; however, 1 out of the 4 mentioned people abuse it very much. That activity is playing video games for a long period of time. For people abusing this activity, they have to be constantly playing for many hours a day. Psychologically, it can change their behavior.

My main topic is about how video games can change people’s behavior. The way it can change a person’s behavior is the violence or online communication through the internet in online play. This ties into digital media because video games developed dramatically over the years with technology. The technology created greater graphics, and more realistic gameplay to the get the gamer more interested. Social justice ties into this because this is a social issue that people do not realize. Children at a young age should not be playing a rated M (Mature) game. Every game is required by law to have a rating on their game. The ratings go in order as follows; E for everyone, T for teen, M for mature, and A for adult. As the ratings increase, the more intense the violence gets. As an example, the game Mario Kart is rated E for everyone and Call of Duty is rated M. These games are significantly different, with the way they are played and different the violence. Mario Kart has no violence in it because the game is made for younger kids. Call of Duty is mostly made for adults because they are more mature to handle the situations with the violence in the game.

The way I want to tell my story is how much the violent video games cause the most change in children’s behavior. They do not realize how violent they are, and sometimes this could be an issue because psychologically they might think it is alright to do similar things involved in the game. I’m going to do a study how much people get more aggressive emotionally after they are done playing the game, and do another study on younger kids playing happy non-violent games and how they react to that.

The two sources that I’m using are very interesting because there are studies that prove that they do change behavior. These studies are usually studied by students and PhD doctors. More studies should be made in the future because video games will continue to evolve and get more violent. Game developers do this because most of the popular games such as Call of Duty and Battlefield bring great investments to make more games in the future. The sources (located below) are two out of the four I’m going to use for the annotated bibliography. The other sources I’m going to search on is that if violent video games actually change their behavior is true.

 

Foster, Cormac. "Do Violent Video Games Really Cause Violent Behavior?" ReadWrite. N.p., 31 Dec. 2012. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.

DeNoon, Daniel J. "Do Video Games Really Spark Bad Behavior?" Fox News. FOX News Network, 19 Aug. 2005. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.