What do we look for when choosing a video game for our children, nephews, or grandchildren? Probably that it's not violent, that it's age-appropriate, and that it encourages creativity. However, we rarely stop to con… Learn more.
Digital social media, listening to music, video games, and TV series are all means of socializing, entertaining, and gathering information for young people. Through these activities, adolescents develop a shared cult… Learn more.
While online video games create new spaces for interaction between teenagers, they can also be a source of social pressure when the obsession with victory becomes too strong. 52% of 12-17 year-olds spend more tha… Learn more.
In late November, Australia’s federal parliament passed landmark legislation banning under-16s from accessing social media. Details remain vague: we don’t have a complete list of which platforms will fall unde… Learn more.
Are you worried about how much time your child spends playing video games? Do they “hibernate” for hours in their room, talking what seems like gibberish to their friends? Fresh air and life away from gaming a… Learn more.
The effect of video games on the social, affective and cognitive development of children and adolescents is of concern since they have become one of the main forms of entertainment at an early age. As an extreme cas… Learn more.
In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holid… Learn more.
The conversation around video games has been subtly shifting over recent years. Once almost universally slated as pointless at best, and at worst extremely harmful, video games have come in for what we now know to be… Learn more.
Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan in 1701. You have to make a difficult choice between an impoverished life in exile, or the prospect of almost certain death while trying to avenge the death of your dishonore… Learn more.
