The topic I’m pursuing is the same topic I wrote about in the rhetorical analysis. The correlation between violence in adolescents and violent video games has been reoccurring in the past year. Personally I am a gamer and this relates to me in a certain perspective. Due to the various mass shootings and growth in aggressiveness in youth (according to statistics) many mass media outlets have put the gaming industry at fault. Thus for this assignment I want to prove that there is no relationship between the two . I see me approaching this issue in two ways, the scientific approach and political one. The most popular approach seems to be scientifically when disapproving this “theory”. Many academic journals and popular articles that disprove the theory by bringing up several experiments. The second approach would be stating the laws protecting youths against violence in video games. (Essentially what’s actually intended to help children, but not working.)As a result ,my intended audience will be parents for this assignment. The parent’s responsibility of their kids seem to be the common ground both sides can agree upon. Therefore I think it’s important for the parents to be informed. Since my intended audience are parents I will be using severally academic sources. I still consider myself a child, so parents probably wouldn’t listen to me unless I have good proof from credible sources. My main query nonetheless is why people correlate violence in youth with video games. Violence has been apparent in the movie industry several years before the gaming industry even debuted. Many politicians have made the connection between the two topics and as a result people are greatly influenced, due to the politicians credibility. Hence a leading question would be why politicians are blaming video games? As you can see this is a topic that has a very far reach in who it impacts. Thus I will try to shed some light on this topic.
