DAILY MAIL & GUARDIAN ANALYSIS.

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DAILY MAIL:

  • Shooter games cause brain damage, Super Mario improves the game.
  • Supports effects theories:
  • Cultivation theory; they tested children for 90 hours and this seemed to lead to brain damage and possibly alzheimer's
  • Moral Panic = stirring up fear for parents, scaring them to think their kids are getting brain damage from this game. 
  • PROBLEMATIC:
  • Real ethical problem by saying the kids will get brain damage and alzheimer's and then forcing them to play the games so they would most likely get these problems in the future. 
  • We don't know the background of these kids, are they happy? are they violent at home?.
  • There is an after brain scan and no before brain scan.
  • Data is very weak, no solid data, no statistics.
  • Very shaky piece of evidence. 
GUARDIAN:
  • Looked in more depth at a study that seems to suggest 
  • Spoke more about children of the 90s
  • States Gaming is not real, suggests kids know this. 
  • Looked to see if the children WERE actually engaging in violent behaviour.
  • Saying that kids had emotional problems, which could be a reason for conduct disorder. 
  • Couldn't work out whether it was worked out by gaming/bullying or family issues.
  • Suggested that ''naughty'' kids are more likely to choose violent games.
  • This refutes effects theories, because it was going against allegations that gaming has effects on children. 
  • Saying it is other stuff that has effects on children.
Daily Mail is more celebrity based.Guardian has more deeper analysis, more hard evidence.

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