{"id":81,"date":"2003-07-08T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=81"},"modified":"2003-07-08T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T22:53:07","slug":"let-the-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Let the games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pew Internet and American Life Project just released their report: Let the games begin: Gaming technology and entertainment among college students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[EDIT\/Aside: CNN confirms Gamers not just male loners<\/a>. Well, thank goodness.]<\/p>\n

The report’s summary of findings:<\/p>\n

\nWhile the last few years have seen tremendous growth in gaming, for one segment of the population, college students, gaming is virtually a commonplace. Computer, video and online games are woven into the fabric of everyday life for college students. And, they are more of a social\/socializing activity than most suspected.\n<\/div>\n

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\nAll of those surveyed reported to have played a video, computer or online game at one time or another. Seventy percent (70%) of college students reported playing video, computer or online games at least once in a while. Some 65% of college students reported being regular or occasional game players.<\/p>\n

Students cited gaming as a way to spend more time with friends. One out of every five (20%) gaming students felt moderately or strongly that gaming helped them make new friends as well as improve existing friendships.<\/p>\n

Gaming also appears to play a surrogate role for some gamers when friends are unavailable. Nearly two-thirds (60%) of students surveyed agreed that gaming, either moderately or strongly, helped them spend time when friends were not available.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of respondents (65%) said gaming has little to no influence in taking away time they might spend with friends and family,<\/p>\n

Students integrate gaming into their day, taking time between classes to play a game, play a game while visiting with friends or instant messaging, or play games as a brief distraction from writing papers or doing other work.<\/p>\n

Gaming is integrated into leisure time and placed alongside other entertainment forms in their residence, and that it forms part of a larger multitasking setting in which college students play games, listen to music and interact with others in the room.<\/p>\n

Most college student gamers seem to associate positive feelings with gaming, such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pleasant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (36%), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exciting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d(34%), and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153challenging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (45%). Fewer students reported feeling frustrated (12%), bored (11%), or stressed (6%) by gaming.<\/p>\n

Close to half (48%) of college student gamers agreed that gaming keeps them from studying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153some\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a lot.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In addition, about one in ten (9%) admitted that their main motivation for playing games was to avoid studying.<\/p>\n

College student gamers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 reported hours studying per week match up closely with those reported by college students in general, with about two-thirds (62%) reporting that they study for classes no more than 7 hours per week, and 15% reported studying 12 or more hours per week.<\/p>\n

One third (32%) of students surveyed admitted playing games that were not part of the instructional activities during classes.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}