The article “Hate speech in video games and online gaming communities – State of the art” signed by the Portuguese team of the European project Play Your Role: Gamification against Hate Speech, Susana Costa, Beatriz Isca, Filipa Cerol, Bruno Mendes da Silva and Mirian Tavares has just been published in the new issue of the […]
Continue ReadingInfographics about the Play Your Role Project
In order to spread awareness about the Play Your Role project a short summary of infographics was prepared based on datas presented and discussed in the Research Report.
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In The Project Toolkit were collected 15 pedagogical itineraries designed by our European team from France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal. Below you can find the single proposals for a more practical use:
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Tackling the topic of online hate speech is never easy: we need paths that help students to reflect and become aware. Video games can be allies: the challenge of the European project Play Your Role was to introduce video game practices into the contrasting paths of online hate speech. A European team (from France, Germany, […]
Continue ReadingPlay Your Role at DIGICOM 2020
The European project Play Your Role will be present at the DIGICOM – Internacional Conference on Digital Design & Communication on November 5-7. The 4th edition of Digicom, organized by the Design School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, aims to be a space for reflection and analysis on the constant challenges of digital […]
Continue ReadingPlay your Role in Gulbenkian Academies for Knowledge
The Portuguese team of the project Play your Role participated in a session of the initiative “World Reading Academy: Journalism, Communication and Me” (Media, Culture and Technology). The motto of the session was the presentation of the European project Play your Role – Gamification Against Hate Speech to a group of students from the middle […]
Continue ReadingFocus Group about Hate Speech Online in Lithuania
As part of the project Pay Your Role Research about the Hate Speech in Video Game (the full report might be found here), an online focus group with 44 participants (aged 12-19) has been surveyed in Šiauliai, Lithuania by VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI. The majority of respondents believe that you can learn certain knowledge, concentration, fast […]
Continue ReadingSurvey Analysis on hate speech online in the context of video games
This report reflects the result analysis of a survey applied to students from three countries – Portugal, Italy and Lithuania, with ages between 11 and 20 years. The survey was applied by direct administration with open and closed questions, divided into five groups. Download the PDF of the research
Continue ReadingPlay Your Role presented in a scientific meeting in Algarve University
Play Your Role – Gamification against hate speech was presented in “XIV Jornadas do CIAC” which took place in the University of Algarve, in Faro, on February 28th. In this fourteenth edition, the “Jornadas do CIAC” were dedicated to communication of science, art, literacy and new media. This is an annual event which brings together […]
Continue ReadingA Survey in Italian Classes
In the period October-November 2019 Centro Zaffiria administered a survey about hate speech in videogame. There were 9 classes involved in the research, the total of the participants is 195. At the very beginning, after a brief presentation, the operator explained to the students that they would participate to an important research about video games […]
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