teenangels - new rochelle chapter 1 1 interactive gaming by: maeve k. modupe p. veronica w

Teenangels - New Rochelle Chapter 1 1

Interactive Gaming

By:Maeve K.

Modupe P.Veronica W.


Objectives

• What age groups mainly play interactive games?

• What games do they play?• How often do they play the games?• What privacy settings, if any, do they

make use of?• Have they ever been bullied online or

contacted by another person inappropriatley?


What are Interactive Games?

• Games in which you can communicate with other people

• Communication can be on:– Message boards– Typed Chat IM– Voice Chat– Etc…


Students Surveyed

• Total surveyed– 185 students

• Age– Age 11 = 28.8%– Age 12 = 38.0%– Age 13 = 19.0%– Age 14 = 14.1%

• Gender– Female = 56.0%– Male = 44.0%

Age of Gamers

Gender of Gamers


Types of Interactive Games

• Many tweens play interactive games

• but the games that they play varied

– Xbox Live– DS Wii– PSP– Halo– Club Penguin– World of Warcraft– Runescape– Webkinz– Disney’s Pirates


How often do kids play these games?

• Majority – one to two hours a week (49.5%) several times a week (32.4%)

• About 12.5% play over ten hours a week

• About 17.0% play several times a day

• 25.5% say the longest time playing in a single sitting is an hour of less

• 28.3% (majority) say their longest time was five hours or more


What games are entertaining?


When did they start playing?

• 6.5% began between 13-14



• 24.5% began at 8 or younger


Keeping yourself safe

• Privacy settings

• Parental controls

• Voice masking

• What do parents know?

• What do parents think?


Communicating with Others• 29.3% communicate with

anyone• 13.0% communicate with

people they got to know in the game

• 57.6% communicate with people they know in real life

• 94.6% say no one has tried to meet offline

• 5.4% say some have tried to organize meetings offline


Cyberbullying in the Games


Gaming Experiences

• “I was playing Halo and one day this guy asked, ‘Do you want to meet at the mall?’”

• “Someone hacked in and used all my coins”

• “People started a rumor that I smoke pot and my dad molests me”

• “I get yelled at because people are trying to act cool”


Future Research

• Survey more students from outside Westchester County, NY

• Find out what other interactive games they play

• Survey people above age 14 to see how the results vary among age groups

• Research more ways for players to stay safe on these games.

teenangels - new rochelle chapter 1 1 interactive gaming by: maeve k. modupe p. veronica w

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