video games – Petri Lankoski

Talk “Sexism and sexuality in games” by David Gaider

Many nice details about the reactions to the romances in Bioware games: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/194571/Video_Sexism_and_sexuality_in_games.php GDC Vault video (not behind a paywall)

Malena Ivarsson et al. put 12-15 year old children to play Animaniacs and Manhunt to see if there is different effects on playing these games (http://www.su.se/forskning/ledandeforskning/samhallsvetenskap/stress-arbete-och-halsa/valdsamma-dataspel-paverkar-kroppen-1.79509) Can you see any issues here? The Pegi rating of the Manhunt is 18, because it contains extreme violence. Hence, it is not meant to be played by 12-15Continue reading “Unethical Research?”