A-C-R paragraph Evseeva Evgenia

ARGUMENT	COUNTERARGUMENT	REBUTTAL
virtual space guarantees safety for solving conflicts	disputes in the net have negative emotional impact	violence in the net is less severe than in real life
way of increasing self-esteem	self identity in virtual environment does not match with the real life	more chances that people will support your opinion in the net

In contrast to social relations in the material world, which are handled according to conventional norms and laws, communication in the Internet has no regulations. That is why issue of violence and verbal aggression is so common in virtual space.  Despite its negative features, Internet violence has a positive impact on Internet users and proves to be a  secure way to express discontent.  As conflicts are inevitable part of human life, it is safer for the person to overcome some quarrel through the net than go through it in the real life. Still, it should be remembered that emotional disputes in a public area network (chat rooms, and forums) are often degenerated from a conflict to psychological terror. Unexpected hostile and abusive attacks lead to strong emotional suffering of the victim. However, according to the numerous findings of scholars, the manifestation of violence through the net is less severe and emotionally harmful for the person than the abuse in the real life. Firstly, there is no risk to be wounded or killed. Secondly, people experience humiliation on the Internet much easier than when talking to the abuser face-to -face. Online users allow themselves to show aggression and fuel conflicts on the forums, thereby increasing self-esteem and the importance of their own point of view.On the other hand, in such a way people may build illusions about their own personality, when their self-identity in virtual space does not correspond to their actual identity in the real life, which often results in discrepancy and depression. Nevertheless, there are more chances to find the radical proponent of some opinion in the net among hundreds of users, who can view the articulation of this standpoint than search for them among the restricted number of people in the social surrounding.

Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). The effects of media violence on society. Science, (295) 2377–2379.