So honestly, I attempted to find the article that we had to read. I know this is not what we were suppose to do, because I cant find the article, that I was suppose to read and write about. In my attempts I wanted to do a blog because I have to. ( so professor. jones I did try to email you but for some odd reason I have bad luck with many situations, including my email. Please be understanding and take in consideration my situation and my initiative for still acknowleding my homework and doing this blog. Thank you)
Since in class we have talked about many situations with the media including the effects of video games, like world of war craft, second life, and other entertaining "video games" that People engage hours and hours in. I ended up having an intellectual conversation with a fellow student and their major and how they feel like the media mainly video games that intrigue us to the point where we dont live out our "real" lives effects their aspect on the major they are going into and why people are the way they are ( example obesity in up and coming generations). I also will add that this fellow gentleman was an phys Ed major and had believed that it isn't mainly genetics that is making a majority of us ( younger ones mainly) obese but its the parenting in letting the children spend hours and hours at a time with only excersizing their thumb muscles.
Yes new tehcnology and special effects can take our breath away, but it could also seems to put our lives at jeopardy! With our health, social skills, and our overly all warped perseption of whats real and whats not.
Little by little their could be less and less children outside, and more of them inside zoned out to a t.v. screen. The parents need to change, and gym in schools must be more informative with health foods, and just intense.
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I've decided to comment on Ream's blog because even though it didn't directly address the article (sorry Ream) she still made some good points that I think can be used to argue against what McLuhan has said about media. Although I agree with him about his theory of Technological Determinism and how it shapes how our society organizes, learns and perceives things, I don't agree with his ideas about "hot" and "cool" media. He says that hot media (such as photos and films) are ones that don't require much effort to be interpreted while cool media takes some "imagination, effort, and emotional involvement" to understand. I agree that all of those things ARE healthy for someone as he points out, but to what extent should we be experiencing these through a completely fabricated world such as video games?
Ream said "video games that intrigue us to the point where we dont live out our "real" lives" was a major reason why many children and even adults today waste away up to 16 hours a day in front of a computer or tv screen playing games and getting fat. I think this is because people ARE emotionally involved as McLuhan points out and DO feel like they're a part of the game so they feel like they're actually doing something which can be a problem when you think about how eating healthy and exercising might be taking a backseat to all this game play. I agree that the occasional video game played for stimulation is not a bad thing, but how much interaction does it really take for your brain to tell your right pointer finger to press 'X' to shoot and left thumb to move the analog stick?
So, no one seemed to know what article we were blogging about, including me, and Ream is the only one so far who attempted something haha...
I think that Ream brought up some very good points and i do agree that there is a problem with the families of America and children being unactive. It is becoming an epidemic in this country and it is something that people need to be made more and more aware of.
In response to Joe, I definitely agree that people do use video games and tv as an outlet to make them feel like they really are getting something accomplished and it really is a very scary thought. People need to be taken out of this mindset and shown how this type of lifestyle can effect them severely.
This "fabricated world" needs to be made aware of in the lives of everyone so they can take the steps necessary to live a healthy life that just integrates tv and video games as a way to have fun, but not the only way to escape from the problems of everyday life.
I agree and disagree with people on this subject. Yes many people blame the tv and video games on kids not having live and being fat. But alot of younger kids cannot go out and buy a tv or a game system. It the parents who buy them all these things. My buddy grew up with his parents having him only watch about 2 hours of tv a week, and would have to write term papers about the books he read over the summer, geeky i know, but believe it or not he actually has a B.S. degree in computer sciences and has a very good paying job and very successful. And you cannot blame the video games on making you addicted to them, just like ciggaretts nobody makes you smoke them or play them. If your old enough you buy them and your the one wasting your life away playing those games.
ME, I like playing video games, sometimes its relaxing and I usually play them late at night when there is nothing else better to do. Or like when there is a blizzard outside and you cannot go anywhere, my buddy and I like just buy a case of beer and play video games and have a cold one. I dont see any of my life wasting away from that. Im sure there are a lot worse things in peoples lives than playing video games. Unless of course you are that kid on the news who only gets off his butt to go to the bathroom. Then you need serious help
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