Almost daily we see some news about children, they are being bullied at school, they are becoming submerged in social networks, and the one that caught my eye was that they are becoming more and more addicted to video games. There are a wide variety of different video games, ranging from computer games, cell phone games, hand-held games, to councils like Xbox 360 and Play Station. All of which have different maturity levels, such as an educational game for young children to games such as Call of Duty which is shooting game. My thought was why are children becoming so addicted to these games, what effects are these games having on their lives, and what exactly is the extent of how many children are addicted? In looking for this information I went to Illinois Central College online library and went to the SIRS website. I found many article on this topic such as “Study Finds Some Youths 'Addicted' to Video Games” by Donna St. George and “The Kidnapping of Play” by Jay Teitel. SIRS also automatically gives you a work cited of each article at the bottom of its page which will be extremely helpful. All of the sources I feel are very reliable because this website if designed specifically for research but also each article has a short description of the writer at the top. Lastly most of the articles quote ans site where they get their information from which I found was usually from a well known doctor, writer, or just someone who is heavily involved in the subject.
You need to look into Korea. It is a country that is aggressively trying to address this problem because their children are suffering. Check out their internet cafe places. It's off the hook.
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