Video Games Aren't Violent

In 1831 Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work to prove that electromagnetic communication was possible, and they marked a new era; An era of television, computers, and video games. Here in 2011, people are trying blame the criminal acts of teens on all the things that evolved from Henry's and Faraday's work. People never cease to see that sometimes they are just looking for something to blame what there kids do or other kids do. Some don't see the real reason a crime was committed because of hate but they instead blame it on something that there kids have seen on TV or played in a video game. Violence in video games to this point has not been proven to raise aggression, therefor they do not cause crime, and the results of the research that has been done is way off target.

People are now blaming the crimes teen's commit on video games, violent video games. Some try to blame it on violent television shows, but recently it has turned primarily to video games. In attempt to prove that this is a major cause, they have tried doing controlled laboratory tests where students play a game for 45 minutes. They take different steps to measure the aggression of the students. When one plays a video game it is a voluntary self-directed activity (Garvey, 1991), an experience that probably can't be captured in a laboratory experiment. What this means is that no one wants to play a game on command, the reason people play games is for enjoyment, usually in the comfort of their own home or a friend's house. As you read over the laboratory experiments one thing one would notice is that none of the tests consider that the students probably aren't enjoying playing the game.