NEGATIVE VIEWS OF GAMING:

Despite being very popular since the 1970s, videogames were not taken seriously by academics until 2001. Before that time they tended to be seen as a children’s medium and looked down upon as examples of ‘low culture’ - with simplistic storylines and stereotypical characters.

Comments from Mrs Cole

Ben,

You have some interesting information on here at the moment. Start to also look at how war is reported in the news and the links between realism in games and the reality as presented in news broadcasts. Remember though, that even the news is a constructed production which will have an angle or view that it is trying to present to the auidence.

Think about issues that could arise with children thinking what they are playing in games is relaity and the distortions that could occur.