Monday, October 15, 2012

Gamer Revolution

A)According to the film, what are some positive aspects of playing videogames for individuals and societies?

For individuals:
-The positive aspect is video games are very powerful that make teenagers involved in the games, for example, there is a game that player can kill the cancer cell.That send messages that cancer cell is not good things.

For societies:
-The positive aspect is video games have gathered people together and make professional groups to be professional gamer to represent the country and participate the competition ,just like Korea and Taiwan.

-It has a function of propaganda. When people play gun games or some war games, they may engage in the games and want to be soldiers.


B)According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggression in the real world? Should governments have the right to ban certain games?

According to the film, there is evidence that digital games encourage aggression in the real world. There are some gun games showed in the film, and according to the MRI result, when a guy is playing the violence games, he will use the criminal part of the brain. That means the games affect human mind to stimulate some feelings about aggression.


C)What is a favorite video games played by a member of your group? What is good about that game? Does it have any aspect that could lead to bad real-life behavior?

Super Mario is one of the games we have been discussed.
It is less violence but still exciting.
In this game, as a Mario  you have to face some challenges like some monsters bordering you, after killing those monsters , you can rescue the princess.

The good thing about about this game is user-friendly, people in different ages can play this game because it is easy to play without using brain to consider and just test your reaction. Also, this game is very colorful to attract people's eyes.

You need to eat the coins to get the marks and life in this game, so may be it will make players over rely on the money.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

What is art according to Adams?Do you agree with his definition?

According to Adams,there are three types of art that he mentioned: literary arts,fine art and decorative art. He thinks that art is lasted long since it has aesthetic meaning that showed if it beauty or not. Furthermore, it has content to express something and let you feel something about it.Also, he mentioned that doing art is not a formula.

I agree with his ideas. As he said that art can keep a long time even forever,like ancient sculptures. If the things have defined as artwork, it is art forever. Art makes you feel something, even it is just still life painting, we can through the colors to feel the artwork.
However, is it possible that art is no content? I may say yes. There are few paintings called 'Sunrise' which painted by Monet, he just wanted to emphasize the changing of colors.It is a landscape ,a building but no content. It is still an artwork.