Friday, December 23, 2005
Video Game Myths Debunked
Henry Jenkins, MIT professor, has written an excellent, well documented, and not too terribly long essay on eight different myths about video games and why they are myth, not fact. The myths that he debunks are:
Go read the article now! What do you think?
- The availability of video games has led to an epidemic of youth violence.
- Scientific evidence links violent game play with youth aggression.
- Children are the primary market for video games.
- Almost no girls play computer games.
- Because games are used to train soldiers to kill, they have the same impact on the kids who play them.
- Video games are not a meaningful form of expression.
- Video game play is socially isolating.
- Video game play is desensitizing.
Go read the article now! What do you think?
