Via College Fix:
A researcher at the University of Saskatchewan claims the lack of characters of color in contemporary video games has an effect similar to that of “everyday” racism.
Cale Passmore, of the university’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab, says he was “driven” to find out how about the health and psychological effects games’ lack of diversity has on individuals.
“We started out talking to friends, people of colour, we created a survey that asked the types of questions that are on people’s minds but get buried or not approached,” Passmore told CBC News.
The result was a 92-question survey which ultimately was tested on 300 Americans. Passmore said the results “showed that the lack of diversity affected people in different ways depending on their own experiences.”
“The same long-term effects of depression, detachment, disengagement, low self-worth are present as outcomes, as you would see in everyday, daily racism,” he said.