Category Archives: Study
New Research Finds Adult Men are Choosing Video Games Over Full-Time Work
It’s the end times my friends: Video games are destroying our economy. New research coming out the Princeton, The University of Chicago, and University of Rochester has found a correlation between the abundance of high quality video games and uneducated … Continue reading
An/Other: A Game That Simulates Everyday Racism
Video Game designer Jordan Sparks has created a game that simulates what it’s like to be black living in Toronto, Canada. The game “An/Other” is Spark’s attempt to demonstrate how racism is embedded in society through the interactive medium of … Continue reading
Pew Research Center’s Report on Gaming & Gamers
The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research group that conducts polling and demographic research, has released 17 page long report on their findings about Gamers and Gaming. This is an incredibly insightful report for anyone conducting sociological research on current … Continue reading
Time’s “Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong”
A new Time’s piece is claiming that everything you know about boys and video games is wrong. I don’t know if exclusive knowledge on either subject is false, but you may as well throw away all of your beliefs about … Continue reading
Video Games Being Used in New Medical Practices
It’s an interesting world we live in, one in which video games are constantly finding new ways to infiltrate our daily lives. We’ve already seen school utilizing video games for teaching purposes, and even video games serving as parts of … Continue reading
New Study Finds Positive Effects of Video Games on Social Behavior
This is it guys: A study that directly looks into the effects of video games on social behavior. What could be more relevant to this blog that this study? PROBABLY NOTHING. Coming out of The University of Oxford, the study explores … Continue reading
