Week 6-video games as in life

I started reading, Youth and Young Adults Find News and Information Online, and found a number of statements that pertained to me. One of the pages talked about how online interaction is occurring more, like on Facebook and email, but the physical interaction is decreasing. We are finding ourselves spending more time in our own electronic worlds.The basis for this article, was to show us what source of media each age group uses to find their news. I think what we are going to see in the future is that the internet will take over and so many more people are going to use the internet for a multiple of things. One of the main topics we will see more of on the internet is the political world and how they use the internet to campaign.

One of the best examples is in Introduction: The Digital Revolution, the Informed Citizen, and the Culture of Democracy. In Jesse Ventura's campaign when he was running for governor of Minnesota, he used the Web to construct an online community where his supporters could go and discuss about the campaign. He also offered detailed position papers for his supporters to see. This in turn, caught the attention of the younger voters and brought them to the polls. I think in order for us to catch the attention of the younger voters they will have to advertise on the websites they spend most of their time on. This article also says that the Web has already had a powerful influence on how the public gets government documents and allows candidates to communicate with their constituencies.

In, A Social technical Vision of Democratic Knowledge Exchange, it talks about the IS example and how the computer field is not growing rapidly as everyone would have thought. IS stands for Information Systems like E-bay and YouTube. More Technology usage has created more jobs, but Information Systems faculty has been redeployed around the world. As the article said in the beginning, we need to becoming up with new ideas and not using our old one. We can always use the community for a resource as I think the politics will need to use more of. Just like in the first two articles I talked about I think the the internet is going to be a good source for finding communities to talk about the politics.

The Civic Potential of Video Games it states that of teens that had a greater number of civic gaming experiences, 70% of them go online to get their political information but 55% have infrequent gaming experiences. This goes to show up that the internet is becoming a useful source for information. One of the paragraphs talked about how educators can use games to reach children in learning about politics and what they can do. When we use tools that grab the children's attention, like video games, we are surely going to have a better response in learning about politics which can be boring.

The games I played was Fat World which seemed exciting and fun at first but then when I started to play it, I was disappointed. I think the topic of this game is a good one because obesity is present and more people need to take life more seriously when it comes to what they eat and how much exercise they get. But this game was slow moving and there was too much to do before you could even start playing. I was done before I even got started. If people are going to make these games they need to be a much more appealing.