Doug Gentile

[Ichi]

This thread isn't necessarily about Gentile but about his research with Craig Anderson

It seems as if every piece of research o cited by game critics is always with them in it somewhere. On my blog, A Gamers Thoughts, I am trying to email people and find out if they use their research by asking them for the research they base their claims on them.

If you wanna check it out I already have one person from the SayYesToNo watchdog group.

[Ichi]

the url for the blog is at

gamespeech.blogspot.com

I'm asking if people could help me find more people who do in the hopes of an eventual effort to introduce some new research of a higher quality, u can find my email there, just send me the person u found who uses the research

[Soldat_Louis]

Once, I created a thread (http://forums.theeca.com/showthread.php?t=537) dedicated to researchers on effects of video games. It included Craig Anderson, Doug Gentile, Bruce Bartholow, Karen Dill.

To me, Doug Gentile is certainly not an "anti-game crusader". Indeed, in his articles and speeches, he always reminds that the purpose of his work on "violent video games" is no to say that "video games are bad". Plus, he also works on the positive aspects of video games in general, including their effects on the efficiency of surgeons.

To be honest, I don't think that Craig Anderson is an "anti-game researcher" either. In fact, I don't think that the problem lies in Anderson's or Gentile's studies and book, although I disagree with some of their thoughts. I think that the problem lies in their "interprets", i.e. the people who review their work for mainstream media. When Anderson's and Dill's pioneer study on "violent video games" appeared in 2000, The Observer reported it claiming that research showed that "video games made people violent". In fact, almost everytime a study on negative effects of "violent games" appears, the mainstream media never questions its content, and worse : they interpret it as a study on negative effects of video games in general ! This is why I say : never trust mainstream media on that issue, and contact researchers directly in order to know what they really think.

This being said, I plan to contact Anderson and Gentile too, in order to know if they can make studies on video game genres and gameplay. To me, studies that focus on "violent vs. nonviolent video games" lack of precision, and negative effects attributed to "violent games" or violent content can be nuanced by game genres, or the way the game is played.

[Soldat_Louis]

I update this thread because of Doug Gentile's last article (http://www.thefreeradical.ca/Public_Policy_and_the_Effects_of_Media_Violence_on _Children.pdf) (co-written with Craig Anderson).