Unravelling the physical, social, and psychological effects of digital games…
Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior? Can online games help us learn?When it comes to video games, these are often the types of questions raised by popular media, policy makers, scholars, and the general public. As, for over a decade there has been a widening gulf between research on the effects of video games and the experience of game-players themselves. Finally, with this book, we see media studies that aren’t themselves born of media effects. In The Video Game Debate