Ohio Professor Says Videogames Alone Don't Cause Shootings

[Jamous]

Fair enough. Because, strangely enough, in cases where all you need to cause a killing spree is a trigger, video games can act as said trigger. We can't really avoid that as much as we love our medium. That said, we should also acknowledge that this does not, in any way, make videogames culpable or in fact the actual cause of that violence. No more than literature or film or any other arts anyway. Nice little article.

 

[frizzlebyte]

Bushman goes on to reference his own study in which college students played violent videogames for 20 minutes each day for three days. Bushman reports they became more aggressive.

Some more information on this would be useful; I imagine it'd skew the findings fairly far if it was competitive and/or multiplayer, as opposed to simply violent. For the amount of time as well, I can imagine the test subjects ending up with a somewhat more 'focused' aggression than from, say, an hour's gameplay.

I'd also like to see studies done on "frustrating" vs. "non-frustrating" gameplay, detached from violence. From personal experience, I'd imagine aggressive behavior would be more prevalent in the "frustrating activity" group, despite the lack of violent content. Violent games tend to engender frustration (especially when linked with competitive features, such as multiplayer), so that element may be where that finding is coming from, rather than the violence itself.

This is, of course, not discounting the tendency of people (especially kids) to mirror the violent activities they see in media (Power Rangers used to hype me up pretty good as a kid), but that in itself does not make for real-world violence.

 

[frizzlebyte]

We were playing pictionary, by the way, she never played videogames.

Is it a jackal? A jackal, a jackal, is it a jackal?

Pictionary can be the most aggravating of games in my experience lol.

IF IT WASN'T RIGHT THE FIRST TIME YOU SAID IT, WHY THE HELL WOULD IT BE RIGHT THE NEXT TEN TIMES?!?!?!




GAUGH!!!

 

[Strazdas]

Nope nope nope. Sorry PROFESSOR but you are wrong. Your little PHD means absolutely squat when compared to the average savvy of ambulance chasing journalists, agenda pushing politicians, or random internet posters. The problem is guns games and a violence obsessed culture. Stop trying to wave that red herring of a shoddy mental health system or a self absorbed "don't want to get involved" culture in our faces. That man could have been mad as a balloon and a threat to no one if guns and violent video games hadn't existed. Stop using the mentally ill as your scapegoat. Shame on you Sir!

Save us from these ivory tower scholars. What next PROFESSOR? You going to blame people themselves for being overweight because they eat too much garbage food and don't exercise, when the real villain is of course the massive junk food industry and the existence of hamburgers?

your irony was so good i only understood what your doing by 3rd sentence. well done!

IF IT WASN'T RIGHT THE FIRST TIME YOU SAID IT, WHY THE HELL WOULD IT BE RIGHT THE NEXT TEN TIMES?!?!?!

Because people like this:

Wow, just 20 minutes a day for 3 days? Considering my weekly gaming time I should have became a raging psychopath ages ago.

Wait, so your telling me its not normal that i became i raging psychopath?

 

[Amir Kondori]

Did you know that all of the shooters wore clothing on the day of the shooting? I think it is clear we need to start thinking about regulating clothing, especially for people who may be prone to mental health issues and violence.

 

[frizzlebyte]

IF IT WASN'T RIGHT THE FIRST TIME YOU SAID IT, WHY THE HELL WOULD IT BE RIGHT THE NEXT TEN TIMES?!?!?!

Because people like this:

Um, you do know that my above quote is what Stewie says to the guy who keeps saying "Jackal" in the episode, right? I mean, I get the joke, that's why I said that.

Your video reply confuses me. :\

 

[Strazdas]

Um, you do know that my above quote is what Stewie says to the guy who keeps saying "Jackal" in the episode, right?

No, i dont. I havent even seen that episode and saw this video linked before and remmebered. My mistake this time.

 

[likalaruku]

Video games are Mentos. If you put it into water, nothing happens. You have to add a lot of shit to water to make into a soda before the Mentos will make it explode, & that water is a slow combination of nature & nurture.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I'd agree about this being a breath of fresh air, but this is hardly surprising. Fox says Black, CNN says White. One researcher and some talking heads approach games like it's Rock and Roll or comics in the 50s, and another tries and have a more sedate approach. They bicker, State senators and governors bankroll their constituents' fears for a while, talks of legislation are made, then the electoral basin stops caring. The deciders stop caring. Something else briefly becomes the Right wing's straw man.

Then another kid dies, and it breaks out that Gosh Gee Willickers, Batman, his killer had the gall to breathe in a game console's general direction, sometime prior to the murder he committed. Fox smells viewership gold and drags its usual Gray Eminences in.

It starts all over again. I'm tired of this shit. As in - literally weary.