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WhitepaperHindawi30 Jan 2024

Video Games as Awareness Raisers, Attitude Changers, and Agents of Social Change

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Video games can effectively shift social attitudes, as evidenced by a study of 98 undergraduate students where playing games like 'Against All Odds' and 'Papers, Please' significantly reduced 'denial' attitudes and increased empathy levels.See it on page 7
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While video games successfully influence emotional perspectives, they do not consistently improve factual knowledge; participants showed no significant difference in knowledge scores regarding the refugee crisis after gameplay.See it on page 7
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Player enjoyment and engagement are critical drivers for potential real-world action, as higher levels of 'Education and Enjoyment'—particularly noted in the game 'Against All Odds'—correlate with a greater likelihood of players seeking further information or taking action.See it on page 4
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Transportation theory, which describes the process of players becoming immersed in a narrative, serves as a primary mechanism for how games facilitate attitude transformation by allowing players to adopt the viewpoint of a protagonist.See it on page 3
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The study utilized three specific games—'Survival,' 'Papers, Please,' and 'Against All Odds'—to examine the refugee crisis, a global issue affecting over 1 billion people and involving 84 million forcibly displaced individuals.See it on page 1
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Future research is required to determine the long-term impact of these games, as current findings are limited by a moderate sample size and the potential for the Hawthorne effect among university students receiving course credit for participation.See it on page 8

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International Journal of Computer Games Technology Hindawi Volume 2024, Article ID 3274715, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/3274715 Video Games as Awareness Raisers, Attitude Changers, and Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Elena Shliakhovchuk; [email protected] Received 18 September 2023; Revised 14 December 2023; Accepted 16 December 2023; Published 30 January 2024 Academic Editor: Joseph Alexander Brown License, which per...

Video Games as Awareness Raisers, Attitude Changers, and Agents of Social Change

Video Games as Awareness Raisers, Attitude Changers, and Agents of Social Change

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