Mainstream Media and Videogame Studies

[GamerDad]

Colleen Hannon's Mainstream Media and Videogame Studies article - http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=3573

[txa1265]

One of the closing lines in the article makes sense

Sometimes kids will get on and play for hours and hours and hours. That’s something parents should be concerned about.

That was from the researcher, who was led by the author into all sorts of places outside of his expertise throughout the article. He seems to continuously say 'that would be speculation' or 'that isn't in the scope of our study'.

To me, the scope and response seems to call this a 'screening' rather than a full experiment. Can we get a response? Yes, so let's go design a real study that will tell us something.

[m_hael]

good article/expose'

has anyone posted this link over at TCE ?

[Raedwulf]

One of the closing lines in the article makes sense

Sometimes kids will get on and play for hours and hours and hours. That’s something parents should be concerned about.

That was from the researcher, who was led by the author into all sorts of places outside of his expertise throughout the article. He seems to continuously say 'that would be speculation' or 'that isn't in the scope of our study'.

You hit the nail on the head
I'm not so much concerned that my step-son is bonking some shambling horror on the head repeatedly in Guild wars, it's how long is he doing it. Is it intefering with his homework? Is he getting some exercise?
Is it necessary for parent s to remind kids that a conversation can have a topic other than video games?

[momGamer]

That's the core problem here with these studies and the mainstream coverage of them. They're vague hints at best, but they're getting written out there as if they were proven truths, and then the non-gamer parents have nowhere to go.

[afa3]

Interesting research report on gamers here from the British Board of Film Classification.

I found it in an article at ars technica, which gives a summary.

It's a survey of gamers' opinions, motives, and habits. It's deliberately non-judgemental, just reporting on what they learned from interviewing gamers.