Photo Credit: Youth Radio Tom Selvi, game programmer, presents to Youth Radio. By: Kayla Garrett Could video games save the environment? Maybe wit...
I don't like to think of the heart as a piece of plumbing, a pump, even though I come from a family of plumbers. The heart is the seat of the soul. Nor do I think of golf as mere physical exercise or as a meaningless game. With a certain frame of mind, you can see it as a spiritual practice.
This social network allows teens with cancer to join other cancer patients who are the same age and begin to find that sense of normalcy again. Through this online group they won't feel isolated or different, and they will be able to talk to other kids about something they enjoy -- video games.
Although video gaming should certainly be supervised, there are good reasons why you should let your kids spend a few hours a week building cities or battling aliens.
It feels like a sequence in a Sci Fi film or a bonus stage in a video game.
Hours spent staring at a screen may be detrimental if it cuts into family time, physical activity, real-world socializing and engaging in other important brain-developing activities. At the same time, some access to technology can provide skills that are necessary for a child to thrive in the 21st century.
Instead of putting in the mental exertion or time commitment to try and solve a puzzle -- and develop their critical thinking at the same time -- a kid's first recourse is to beg Dad to go online for a cheat code.
Which has a greater influence on shootings: video games or easy access to guns? Let's pretend for one second that we live on a planet where that question isn't absolutely, batshit insane.
Media, like language, are processes through which information is stored, accessed and presented in certain ways to the relative exclusion (mastery) of others.
Dear U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, You are concerned about the effect of violent video games on children, so I wanted to explain.
Have you ever thought you missed your true calling in life? That instead of flipping burgers/washing dishes/defrauding investors you should have been ...
A timer just isn't going to do it anymore, folks. Not for doctors, and not for parents. We have to stop thinking of all screens as "bad" and think about media the way we think about food. That's right, we need good media nutrition!
Aside from being a regular fixture on Kevin Smith's Smodcast network, Jason Mewes has been keeping busy as an actor, taking the persona that started as a philosophical dope peddler in Clerks and growing and maturing it in myriad ways.
Worthwhile as gun control is, America also needs to address violence from the other side -- the side of our culture.
Lamorne Moore plays roommate Winston on New Girl, and our guest hosts Lance Bass
Gamification -- or the use of game, loyalty and economic concepts to engage consumers and employees -- has its fair share of detractors. But good criticism should be grounded in facts and a shared desire to make the world a better place.