Screening of Gamer Revolution

a)According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing videogames for individuals and societies?

About the pros of playing videogames for individuals is the player can earn money from the

videogames competition. If they won the competition, they not only can won the prize, but they\can also enter to the company which is specially for make money Also, they may do more exercies through the  videogame, for example, Wii Sport. 

However, it has some cons of playing videogames for individuals and societies, especially

teenagers. Nowadays, many teenagers addicted in playing videogames, it may cause some

bad effect onthem. In the video (CBC documentary, 2007) recorded that the US game creator

created agame which kill all the iranian if you want to win the game. It may cause the

discrimination of Iran and the teenagers may think that iranian is the lower grade humankind.  

b) According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage
aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?

According to the film, there may have some ideas that is encourage aggressive value. For

example, some frame of this film show that the players can earn money through the competition, they must have the ambition of winning the game competition for getting the money. In all  competition, there contains competitive atmosphere, especially the result of the game is about money. Therefore, most people will have the ambition to join the competition and encourage the aggressive value.

Besides, most of the game contains the goals such as save the world, fight to the enemies etc. most of these game need us to achieve and pass all the tasks; some games even are multiple play, that means play will other players.  Therefore, most of these games must encourage the aggressive value.

Moreover, I think that digital game won't have the anti-actions in the real world. As I said before, some of the game are multiple players mode, they can play with other players. It also can raise the connection with other people. Besides, the film show that there are some competition in Korea. The players seems became an star of playing game, they also have lots of chances to have interactive with others. Therefore, I won;t think that digital game will have the anti-actions in real world, even there may raise the interaction with the real world.  

 

c) Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I won't think that government should have the right to ban certain games.

Majority of people will think that some type of games may raise the negative effects to teenages even the society. For example, a game which is first-person game. The players need to follow the beat and use the knife to jump over the fingers. (Link of this game: http://www.asiadog.com/game/violence/12.shtm) and the game which fighting with others till one of them died. (Link of this game: http://www.asiadog.com/game/fight/1.shtm)

However, I don't think the society or teenages' mind can be changed by those violence games easily, there must have other more violent things which exist in the society through other media such as movie. I think that the society must have those things, you cannot ban all of them easily.
Besides, their parents even can teach them through those games. What can do and what they should do. It may be a good chance for educating the teenages.