Views From The Breezeway
Monday, August 11, 2003
posted by Phy @ 2:55 PM
Tycho from Penny Arcade railed about this and they responded to one stereotype by firing back with their own.
The truth is, I suspect, somewhere in the middle.
On the one side, we have a number of studies that show that playing games is not only good for improved hand-eye coordination, they can help today's youth prepare to multi-task better and make quicker decisions in this current age of continuous partial attention. On the other, it's just as wrong to simply blame the parents if Jr. *does* become a miscreant because they let their impressionable young play videogames as it is to blame the videogame industry for producing them.
I think dialogue is good and right but these knee-jerk stereotypes don't help anybody.
The truth is, I suspect, somewhere in the middle.
On the one side, we have a number of studies that show that playing games is not only good for improved hand-eye coordination, they can help today's youth prepare to multi-task better and make quicker decisions in this current age of continuous partial attention. On the other, it's just as wrong to simply blame the parents if Jr. *does* become a miscreant because they let their impressionable young play videogames as it is to blame the videogame industry for producing them.
I think dialogue is good and right but these knee-jerk stereotypes don't help anybody.
