Contextual Studies

During my research for contextual studies, I quickly decided to write about gaming application for health and fitness, mostly focusing on the physical side. Early into the research, I found some toxic studies using very old quantitative number samples of BMI to claim gaming and television was a direct cause of overweight and obese children. Sadly, I found articles written this year, using information from 11 year old studies, which used 20 year old samples to claim they are relevant today, safe to say during my essay draft I went on a bit of a rant. Luckily upon reflection I was able to edit out my rant, sum the argument down to one sentence, contextualize it and move on.

I believe a weakness and a strength of mine during CS is that I research as I write, often I find many, many sources, but a lot of them end up getting replaced by better sources. Sometimes however I forget where I had a source and some information becomes almost irrelevant because I can't back up my point. For the most part, I managed to avoid that here.

Here are some of my sources for my essay;

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Lah, K. (2009). Tokyo man marries video game character. Available: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/16/japan.virtual.wedding/. Last accessed 14th May 2014.

McGonigal, J. (2010). Gaming can make a better world. Available: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world. Last accessed 14th May 2014.

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Official EA UK. (2010). EA SPORTS Active 2 TV Ad . Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da45dCKiWmQ. Last accessed 14th May 2014.

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Rowan, C. (2014). Ten reasons why handheld devices should be banned for children under the age of 12. Available: http://movingtolearn.ca/2014/ten-reasons-why-hand-held-devices-should-be-banned-for-children-under-the-age-of-12. Last accessed 14th May 2014.

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