Studies in psychology show that people do get too involved in films and videogames to such an extent they think they are part of it. This has happened in the film Natural Born Killers.
The film was released in 1994 and is said to have influenced Columbine High School Massacre in North America and a couple who went on a killing spree in France.
With video games becoming more and more lifelike, I think people will start to copy things in videogames. Howeverer, I think it is all dependant on the person and how they think. The percentage of people who play videogames and are influenced by them is a lot lower than people who play videogames just because they enjoy them.
As TV and games advance in technology, such as 3D, it will keep progressing until it is a virtual reality and appear as the people are actually in the game. I think this will lead to problems and the players will become too involved and may leave behind their sense of reality.
Haven't some people already left behind a sense of reality when they become engrossed in games, or will people always remind themselves that they are playing a game?
ReplyDeleteRead this article to think about the history of this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent
Will we always blame media for societal issues?