Video games, violence and real world effects: Leveling Up On Knowledge.
In this amazing and balanced podcast, Cosmos journalist Jacinta Bowler goes deep on video game violence.
Bowler speaks with experts including Associate Professor Michael Kasumovic from the University of New South Wales and Associate Professor Jim Sauer and Senior Lecturer Aaron Drummond from the University of Tasmania.
The episode travels through a wide range of evidence based research and arrives, where all scientific based research is arriving:
(1) The better the study is designed the less likely any connection will be found between video games and real world violence.
(2) In many cases, violent video games are being connected with macro reductions in real world violence.
(3) If there is any connection to violence with gaming it would be no more of a connection than between RW violence and playing sports. (Read: very very very small to unmeasurable).
Treatment design is often counterintuitive, but if the goal is to truly help people, sometimes you just gotta push through the fear and rhetoric.
Here we go…
Source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/computing/video-games-violence/
