The Ultimate Game: What We Learned from Mobilising Gamers During Brazil’s Elections
The Gamer Impact Lab’s first initiative conducted Brazil’s first-ever behavioural research on different segments within the gamer community and their involvement in political action.
Playing Against Radicalisation: Why Extremists are Gaming and How P/CVE Can Leverage the Positive Effects of Video Games to Prevent Radicalisation
The potential nexus between gaming and extremism is an increasingly important concern for researchers, tech companies, policymakers, and practitioners working in preventing and countering (violent) extremism (P/CVE). While the exploitation of gaming content and spaces by extremist actors is a relatively new phenomenon and research in this area is sparse, it has become clear that […]
Can Serious Games Make a Difference in P/CVE?
Video games and gamification have become key tools of extremist actors’ recruitment arsenal and have taken a central role in their modus operandi. Analyses have pointed out how terrorists employ gaming elements in staging their attacks, or how violent extremists create full-blown video games fraught with hateful narratives and include opportunities to annihilate various social and ethnic groups.