Study Underway To Find Out How Violent Games Affect Teenagers

If you were given NZ$ 140,000.00 what would you do? Dr. Gareth Schott of Waikato University’s screen and media department, decided to run two video game clubs, but it’s for researching purposes only. His objective is to observe teenagers in a natural environment (Yeah, a game club is as natural as you get for 13-year olds). His study mainly deals whether and to what degree, violent games negatively affect the young. According to the good doctor, this study will finally give young people a voice in the debate about violent games.

As part of researching, he’ll be doing some interviews with gamers regarding their social lives in relation with the games they play, as well as the anti-violent game group members about why they hate these games so much. One of his main questions would be why teenagers are attracted to violent games. 

Maybe we can help Dr. Schott, we ask the teenagers out there: Why do you choose, interact with, and enjoy games with violence?

Via Gamasutra

If you were given NZ$ 140,000.00 what would you do? Dr. Gareth Schott of Waikato University’s screen and media department, decided to run two video game clubs, but it’s for researching purposes only. His objective is to observe teenagers in a natural environment (Yeah, a game club is as natural as you get for 13-year olds). His study mainly deals whether and to what degree, violent games negatively affect the young. According to the good doctor, this study will finally give young people a voice in the debate about violent games.

As part of researching, he’ll be doing some interviews with gamers regarding their social lives in relation with the games they play, as well as the anti-violent game group members about why they hate these games so much. One of his main questions would be why teenagers are attracted to violent games. 

Maybe we can help Dr. Schott, we ask the teenagers out there: Why do you choose, interact with, and enjoy games with violence?

Via Gamasutra