Skip to main content

Home/ Gaming and the liberal arts/ Group items tagged adolescents

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Ed Webb

Watching violent TV or video games desensitizes teenagers and may promote more aggressi... - 4 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...101018211820.htm

gaming games violence K12 adolescents

shared by Ed Webb on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 19 Oct 10
     
    Hmmm. I'd like some expert opinion on this...
  • ...1 more comment...
  • Brett Boessen on 19 Oct 10
     
    Well I wouldn't call myself an expert, although I _have_ looked at this issue several times before with students. The usual elements are here: very small sample size, heavily controlled experiment, undefined categories ("low," "mild"), and murky description of the results (although that could definitely be the fault of the journalist reporting the findings, too). However, these are all possible issues with any social science experiment. There are some other things that often come with media effects specifically. If you haven't seen David Gauntlett's "Ten Things Wrong with Media Effects Research," it's worth a look: concise but packed with criticism (and easy to use in class). http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm Otherwise, to me this sounds like the same research that occasionally comes out about games and violence, and has been so for at least a decade. The new wrinkle here could be the MRI readings, and I'll admit I'm no expert there either. But given the limited degree to which science really understands the relationships between thought, behavior, and brain activity, I'm not sure the correlations they're showing in the evidence are all that helpful either.
  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Oct 10
     
    I don't have much to add to Brett's fine comment. Yeah, this is part of a kind of study which shows that well-produced media tends to elicit emotions. Er, yes. There are some hilarious stories about porn like this. But yes, the big deal is MRI, over time. I don't know if the rest of the boys' experience has been successfully gapped out.
  • Ed Webb on 19 Oct 10
     
    MRI will maybe change things. Not for the better, I fear. I'm watching the emerging field here: http://www.diigo.com/user/edwebb/neurocinematics
Ed Webb

Excessive internet use linked to depression, research shows | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...essive-internet-use-depression

internet addiction socialmedia bullshit idiocy

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • a small proportion of internet users were classed as internet addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users.
  • The mean age of the 18 internet addicts, 13 of whom were male and five female, was 18.3 years.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 04 Feb 10
       
      They found 18 adolescents who are somewhat depressed? Astounding!
  • Ed Webb on 04 Feb 10
     
    I call bullshit. Yes, you heard me - bullshit.
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page