Tackling the topic of online hate speech is never easy: we need paths that help students to reflect and become aware. Video games can be allies: the challenge of the European project Play Your Role was to introduce video game practices into the contrasting paths of online hate speech. A European team (from France, Germany, […]
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The European project Play Your Role will be present at the DIGICOM – Internacional Conference on Digital Design & Communication on November 5-7. The 4th edition of Digicom, organized by the Design School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, aims to be a space for reflection and analysis on the constant challenges of digital […]
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The Portuguese team of the project Play your Role participated in a session of the initiative “World Reading Academy: Journalism, Communication and Me” (Media, Culture and Technology). The motto of the session was the presentation of the European project Play your Role – Gamification Against Hate Speech to a group of students from the middle […]
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As part of the project Pay Your Role Research about the Hate Speech in Video Game (the full report might be found here), an online focus group with 44 participants (aged 12-19) has been surveyed in Šiauliai, Lithuania by VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI. The majority of respondents believe that you can learn certain knowledge, concentration, fast […]
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This report reflects the result analysis of a survey applied to students from three countries – Portugal, Italy and Lithuania, with ages between 11 and 20 years. The survey was applied by direct administration with open and closed questions, divided into five groups. Download the PDF of the research This research report is available also in Italian […]
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Play Your Role – Gamification against hate speech was presented in “XIV Jornadas do CIAC” which took place in the University of Algarve, in Faro, on February 28th. In this fourteenth edition, the “Jornadas do CIAC” were dedicated to communication of science, art, literacy and new media. This is an annual event which brings together […]
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In the period October-November 2019 Centro Zaffiria administered a survey about hate speech in videogame. There were 9 classes involved in the research, the total of the participants is 195. At the very beginning, after a brief presentation, the operator explained to the students that they would participate to an important research about video games […]
Continue ReadingThe research, framed in the European project Play your role, proposes the study and analysis of the state of the art in video game panorama, focusing the tendency to the use of hate speech by the young players. The immersion of the player in the symbolic arena of the game, where everything becomes possible, raises […]
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