Myths and Controversies

http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html

The violent rampages and the school shootings that plagued the 1990s and 2000s have led to various questions and speculations whether these examples of violence are connected with the rise of digital media and the spread of violent computer games among youth in particular. Blaming computer games for making the kids more aggressive has even become some sort of trend in the recent years. I found this article quite interesting, as it tries to actually look at the problem more objective. While it does not and cannot prove that the computer game violence has no connection with certain incidents, it also shows that the reports of these games massively plaguing the psychology youth nowadays and transforming them into violent, bloodthirsty killers are an exaggeration. This article also tries to evaluate several other prejudices about the computer games and look at them from the more objective point of view.