Video games: technology and social issues.

From: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction

Video games are a major part of the culture of the United States and of many other countries throughout the world. Play is a natural human phenomenon, that leads the person or animal to develop skills to be used later in life, as well as often being enjoyable at the time. Games would seem to involve play plus the addition of more formal rules than is involved in play per Se (Frasca, 2003; Southern, 2003; Kampmann, 2003). Video games help people sharpen their perceptual and/or motor skills, as well as enjoy themselves. The United States military uses things much ...

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