Videogames

Blog Post 6

Original paragraph from Draft 1: The single largest controversy facing the video game industry is their effect on players’ health. Particularly focused on violent video games and their negative contributions to mental health, there have been myriad studies performed over the past few decades on the…

Blog Post 5

Tom Bissell’s essay “Extra Lives” describes one man’s addiction to video games, which has been spearheading his indifference towards activities he once found enjoyable. Bissell’s struggle is one experienced by millions of people in our relatively new digital world. Recent reports of experiences like…

Blog Post #5

In the Chapter “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissel, he describes his experience losing himself in video games, specifically Grand Theft Auto. The entire chapter is a walk through of his time spent exploring the vastness of the virtual world and how it has affected his relationships. Bissel mentions the friends…

Blog Post #5

Jane McGonigal answers the “who cares” question within her TedTalk by stating that the whole audience needs to spend time playing video games. She also answers the “so what” question by explaining how the world has to play 21 billion hours of video games a week total in order to survive on the planet for…

Blog 5

Chapter 9 of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, a book by Tom Bissell, does not appear to answer any “so what?” or “who cares?” question. I suppose because the passage assigned was just an excerpt from a book, which could explain why this section is lacking both of the questions. The title suggests that video…

Blog Post Number 5

Teresa Piccolo

English 110

Blog Post Number 5

In the Ted Talk, the speaker, video game creator Jane McGonigal speaks of how video games could potentially help “save the world.” She tries to persuade the audience that…

Blog Post #5

The article, “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissell, describes how video games have overtaken this man’s life. He opens up the article by discussing how he wrote several books and published a mass amount of magazine journalism but that was “Once upon a time” ago. He begins to explain how once upon a time was a…

After listening to Jane’s Ted talk about video games being able to save the world, she cares a lot about her topic. She offers several examples of past and present researchers who care about how playing more video games could better the world as a whole. By doing this she shows that not only her but others care about this topic around the world…