Roots of Toxic Online Game Culture
- Streamers behave badly as a way to increase their views and likes, which in turn maximizes their profits and those of their company sponsors.
- Game companies cannot fully control who plays their games, despite Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings.
- Younger players play mature games and learn through their interactions with older and often toxic audiences.
- Cultural stigmatization of gaming leads to a lack of educator involvement in supporting prosocial and educational gaming spaces in schools.
- Lack of public access to data from game companies on the nature of harm on any game platform limits research and policy that could improve safety and trust.
- Online human moderation at scale is expensive and it is difficult to get buy-in from leadership to invest in it.
- Systemic bias in the design of technologies and representations work against diversity, reinforce player stereotypes, and ultimately limit the definition of who is a gamer.
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Raising Good GamersTechnical and Research Papers>Private Organization Report: Tekinba?, Katie Salen (September, 2020), Raising Good Gamers, Retrieved on 2021-03-03Source Material [clalliance.org]
Folksonomies: gaming digital citizenship 