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Sandi Visnov Professor Hobbs Mass Media and Children Response Paper Revision __Statistics: __ Name: Stuart (Father) Danny Child) Ages: 55 and 11 Location: Blue Bell, Pa Occupation: Business Owner and Student Race: Caucasian Physical/ Psychological Illness in Family: None __Questions: __ 1.  Do you feel that after your child plays high-violence conditioned games that it makes him more physical towards his peers, uncooperative or negative affects? 2.  When he plays low-violence conditioned games what is the difference between that and high-violence conditioned games? 3. Do you feel that it would be to your benefit (and your child’s) to take away these high-violence conditioned games? 4. After you did take away the games for a particular time did you notice any difference in your child’s behavior with others? Towards yourself? 5. After doing this experiment would you recommend this to other parents? Why? Interview a parent or relative about their views about the influence of media violence on attitudes and behaviors.  After speaking with my dad about the effect of violence in the video games and the effect that it has on my younger brother, these were the answers that I had gotten towards my questions.

__ Answers __  1. Yes, not to the fullest extent but he is much rowdier and more aggressive around the house ( Miami Nights: Life in the Spotlight ). Only once in awhile is he uncooperative. But I do think that the video games are a contributing factor from the violence that he is seeing on the screen and then what is processed and taken about into “real life.”  2. He has a DS game (Animal Pet: Paws and Claws Best Friends) that he plays which is about dogs and animals and I have never noticed a change in him after he has played those games. There is a much different response also, after the game is played regarding to the two different games  3. I do not feel that it would benefit him to take away the games, ( Miami Nights: Life in the Spotlight  or Animal Pet) as long as he knows what is real and what is fake (the video games). I think also that video games have taken a change for the worse. They are more violent and seem to have very high levels of killing, blood and violence.  4. I would recommend in general that children not be exposed to high levels of violence at any age. Especially at a younger age is most important because this is when they are most vulnerable and do not exactly knowing the full impact of what the game is ensuing.

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__ Analysis __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My dad did not feel that the violence in the video game fully impacted my younger brother but he did recommended that children not be exposed to high levels of violence at any age. I agree with what he has to say. I think that the more the child is exposed to at a younger age, the more they learn about that certain topic (shooting, drugs, violence etc) and the more trouble they can get themselves into. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Craig A. Anderson and Karen E. Dill discuss how, "long term video game players can become more aggressive in outlook, perceptual biases, attitudes, beliefs,and behavior than they were before the repeated exposure or would have become without such exposure. (Anderson & Dill 774).

This is relevant in my article because the interview that I did with my dad about my brother represents this slightly. When Danny (11) is playing low impact/ violent video games he is less aggressive but with a higher violence video game he can and has sometime become more aggressive. Studies have shown in Craig A. Anderson and Karen E. Dill that with long term use of video games, players can be more aggressive. I believe that because my younger brother has not been playing video games for long periods of time this is why he is not as violent and the more violent video games do not have as much of an effect on him as someone else who has been playing video games for a longer period of time. The younger the child is exposed to the violent video games the more trouble they can get into because they are being exposed to dangerous situations at such an impressionable age.