Year 13 Critical Investigation proposal form

Working title
The hidden truth about gaming.

Angle
The positive impact of gaming on one’s brain and behaviour.

Linked production piece
Documentary-

Research plan (media texts and academic texts)

Media Texts

TV documentaries

Academic texts

(Study at the University of Rochester and Nottingham Trent)

Jane Mcgonigal:Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World(2011)
 

Jennifer Comet Wagner: The Gamer Generation: Reaping the Benefits of Video Games (2012)

Barrie Gunter: The effects of video games on children: the myth unmasked (1998)

Peter Vorderer, and Bryant Jennings: Playing video games: motives, responses, and consequences (2006)