Gamers are pretty normal people
Posted on July 08, 2003 @ 15:34 in Research
A recently released study by Pew Internet & American Life shows that on a whole college students who play video games, are pretty normal people. A quick quote from the summary of findings (like I did read the whole report!):
Students integrate gaming into their day, taking time between classes to play a game, play a game while visiting with friends or instant messaging, or play games as a brief distraction from writing papers or doing other work.
Yahoo and Wired report about it, and focus on the fact that a scientific study challenges the stereotype of gamers as reclusive nerds. Well, not that this one report is going to make a whole lot of difference to the image of gamers lodged in public imagination, but at least it doesn't hurt.
Meanwhile, in somewhat related news, Gamezone interviews James Paul Gee, author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, who talks about positive effects of some types of games, and why it might be beneficial for young children to play videogames.
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