Is Media Violence a Problem? | Violence in Video Games Is a Serious Problem
Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. is a professor of education at the University of Miami and the author of Children and Hyperreality: The Loss of the Real in Contemporary Childhood and Adolescence.
Summary: “First-person shooter” games such as Doom and Quake allow players to simulate the act of shooting people. The more people you can kill in these games, the better your score. These games effectively act as teaching machines that desensitize players to violence and make them better at killing. As computers become more sophisticated, the realism of these...
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