Thanks Aileen, I will have a look :-)
marc > On Sunday 02 August 2009 13:00:50 marc garrett wrote: > >> We need more women in games. >> > > On that subject I highly recommend "She's Such a Geek", one of my favorite > books: http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781580051903 > > Enjoy, > Aileen > > >> Guardian article. >> >> A new study shows that females are missing from videogames, in which 85% >> of the characters are male. Videogame players may be more diverse than >> ever, but for game characters the digital realm is still very much a >> white man's world. A study published this week looking at gender, race >> and age has found that female and minority characters are severely >> under-represented. >> >> US researchers examined the top 150 games from March 2005 to February >> 2006, including titles such as Doom 3 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. >> They discovered that 85% of characters are male, compared to just 49% of >> the US population. The figure rises to 90% for player-controlled >> characters. >> >> Black, Hispanic and Native American characters also fail to reflect >> their real-life counterparts, and mainly appear in sports games or >> titles that reinforce racial stereotypes, such as 50 Cent Bulletproof. >> Turning to age groups, children and the elderly are almost non-existent >> in games, with adult characters making up nearly 87% of the total. >> >> Previous studies have examined questions of representation in games, but >> this new research is the most comprehensive so far. The findings also >> take sales data in to account by weighting the most popular games as >> more important, under the assumption that they have a larger effect on >> players. >> >> Dmitri Williams led the research, published in the journal New Media & >> Society. He suggests that media under-representation can be an indicator >> of social inequality. >> >> more... >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/31/videogames-gende >> r-balance >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
