User:Jo wells spring 2008

1)Obective: I will be doing a Flickr project with Hannah Walker.

2) I will be discussing how video games have an impact on people's social life, their health. and their participation in society. I have been around sports all my life, and when I came to Athens and see some of the people who play constanly, it surprises me.

3) I have skills in how society works, how to take pictures and get my point across.

4) I will be doing this with one more person.... hannah walker

5 We will be discussing concepts from starks like social loafing and how you take the back seat to your society and are fine with it. We will also be talking about some causes from video games with the sinificants with interaction theories. The causes with playing to much and getting overweight causes self esteem to go down, then you are looked as lower your stratification status. we will be also talking about looking glass self and social interaction.

    a) I used chapter 3 (Microsociolgy) a lot.  Some of the terms were looking glass self (74), social interaction (72) , and socialization (68).  All these terms have to deal with society changing because of technology.  You see more and more people doing a certain thing then it feels like its all right to do.  I feel like the definition of norms will change and effect what we have today.

6) I will also use the studies I've notice of being around my buddies who overwelmthere day in playing video games. We also have some information from social loafing from a internet site. We use these showing the effects of being in a virtual world to much, and obesity comes around too. Some games also so to much violence.

     a) Vandewater, E.. "Science Direct." Linking obesity with over use of television and video games 27, 1February 2 Jun 2008  
     b) Anderson,Craig,Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2000 Apr Vol 78(4) 772-790