In this final entry, I would like to recommend you my top 5 favorite blogs that I witnessed so far.
1) https://evgianamedia.blogspot.cz
In her post, she writes about influence of media on people. I loved the fact that she mentioned russian online suicide game called "Blue Whale", which is totally shocking and in order to know more - check her blog.
2) https://nosymonkeys.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/drugs-in-media/
Seong wrote in his blog about drugs and how they are represented in media. I am totally against drugs, but it was quite interesting topic to read. Before i did not know that drugs were portrayed that negatively in media. Also you can find out reasons in his blog
3) https://musicstreamingsociety.wordpress.com/
Ondra wrote about music industry which I am totally in love with and it is one of the reasons why it caught my attention first, when I was looking for blogs to read.He was writing about changes in music industry, especially such innovation like music streaming online (spotify). He also wrote about negative sides of that, which you can see in his blog
4) https://effectsofmediaonchildren.wordpress.com/
Tomas in his blog was writing about influence of media on children and adolescents. It is quite an important topic due to the fact that the easiest group of people that get influenced by information floating around is children. You should definitely check his site in order to find out more about impacts of media.
P.s his blog also has a fantastic design. Loved it.
5) https://hiddensideofmedia.wordpress.com/
In her blog, Natasha, focuses on hidden sides of mass media, more specifically the negative one. It is definitely interesting blog to read, because she points out issues with social networks and how fake beauty influences people. Besides that, she also mentions cyber-bullying, which is a huge problem and there is a lot of negativity around the net because of that.
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Monday, 1 May 2017
My view
Coming to my 6th and final post, I am going to talk about my point of view about gaming. As you can probably understand from my previous posts, video games have been playing a huge role in my life. However, not everyone shares love to gaming like I do. There is an overabundance of hate and criticism towards it in the media. And a question rises in my mind: why does the mainstream media hate video games so much?
Firstly, I feel that gaming industry is like a new phenomenon which gets bullied by bigger industries.Video games are a direct threat to the medias bottom line. People playing video games are NOT watching media and the fewer people watching the media, the less sponsorship - and therefore potential for fewer advertising dollars.So competition is a thing here. it's just that video games are the new kid on the block and thus gets blamed for everything wrong with the youth. It happened with novels, rock music, dancing, hip hop, comic books, violent movies, and now video games. It'll pass soon enough. It remains to be seen, however, whether video games will turn into the modern equivalent of comics (no longer blamed for society's ills, but struggling to be taken seriously by the general public) or modern music (accepted as an art form by pretty much everyone, even if some genres aren't respected as much as others).
Secondly, I would like to mention an understandable reason of hate towards games. Overusing video games can cause serious health problems to individuals. With no physical activity, children and adults are at risk of developing certain kinds of disorders. For instance, children and adults might develop cardiovascular disorders because of the cholesterol build up in their hearts. In addition, some people would even play in front of their computers for hours with their junk food at their side which causes them to gain a huge amount of weight. This leads children and adults of becoming obese. Moreover, the physical endurance and agility of both children and adults become poor. Hence, an over use of video games can cause serious health problems for children and adults. On the other hand, it also depends on the person, whether she/he is good enough with time management and self motivation.
Finally, there is also a bunch of positive reasons why people should play games. One of the most positive effects of video games is increasing the dexterity of a child and improving his or her hand-eye coordination. As mentioned earlier, the new video games that are coming out are extremely complex and they involve the movement of many different kinds of sticks and buttons on the controllers. These can be very good for children as they learn to make fast connections between what they see and what their hands and fingers are doing. This allows them to think quickly and improves their reflexes. The newest games are very precision-based and it takes very minute and accurate movements for the children to control the characters. This helps in making the children much more adept at handling and operating real-life machinery and objects.So skill plays a huge role here. It is not simply pressing random buttons.
To conclude, i suggest people to not be influenced or biased by what media says. It portrays us as anti-social people, who are stick to their computers or consoles and do not care about real social life outside of gaming world. I am a gamer, I love playing video games. But I am also a very sociable guy who does sports and simply enjoys life. I communicate with a lot of people in online games as much I do in real life.
And to you, my dear reader. I would like to thank you so much for taking your time on reading my blog. I truly appreciate that.
Firstly, I feel that gaming industry is like a new phenomenon which gets bullied by bigger industries.Video games are a direct threat to the medias bottom line. People playing video games are NOT watching media and the fewer people watching the media, the less sponsorship - and therefore potential for fewer advertising dollars.So competition is a thing here. it's just that video games are the new kid on the block and thus gets blamed for everything wrong with the youth. It happened with novels, rock music, dancing, hip hop, comic books, violent movies, and now video games. It'll pass soon enough. It remains to be seen, however, whether video games will turn into the modern equivalent of comics (no longer blamed for society's ills, but struggling to be taken seriously by the general public) or modern music (accepted as an art form by pretty much everyone, even if some genres aren't respected as much as others).
Secondly, I would like to mention an understandable reason of hate towards games. Overusing video games can cause serious health problems to individuals. With no physical activity, children and adults are at risk of developing certain kinds of disorders. For instance, children and adults might develop cardiovascular disorders because of the cholesterol build up in their hearts. In addition, some people would even play in front of their computers for hours with their junk food at their side which causes them to gain a huge amount of weight. This leads children and adults of becoming obese. Moreover, the physical endurance and agility of both children and adults become poor. Hence, an over use of video games can cause serious health problems for children and adults. On the other hand, it also depends on the person, whether she/he is good enough with time management and self motivation.
Finally, there is also a bunch of positive reasons why people should play games. One of the most positive effects of video games is increasing the dexterity of a child and improving his or her hand-eye coordination. As mentioned earlier, the new video games that are coming out are extremely complex and they involve the movement of many different kinds of sticks and buttons on the controllers. These can be very good for children as they learn to make fast connections between what they see and what their hands and fingers are doing. This allows them to think quickly and improves their reflexes. The newest games are very precision-based and it takes very minute and accurate movements for the children to control the characters. This helps in making the children much more adept at handling and operating real-life machinery and objects.So skill plays a huge role here. It is not simply pressing random buttons.
To conclude, i suggest people to not be influenced or biased by what media says. It portrays us as anti-social people, who are stick to their computers or consoles and do not care about real social life outside of gaming world. I am a gamer, I love playing video games. But I am also a very sociable guy who does sports and simply enjoys life. I communicate with a lot of people in online games as much I do in real life.
And to you, my dear reader. I would like to thank you so much for taking your time on reading my blog. I truly appreciate that.
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