Do Mobile Games put Chinese Youth and Education at Risk?——From the Perspective of Narrative Inquiry

Author(s):

Chenglan Lin(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2019

Network:

19. Ethnography

Format:

Poster

Session Information

19 SES 05.5 PS, General Poster Session

General Poster Session

Time:

2019-09-04

12:15-13:15

Room:

Poster Tent

Chair:

Contribution

In 2015, Chinese game industry became the world's first market.In the following years, the game industry continued to grow rapidly, with mobile games accounting for the largest proportion.(IDC,2018)Unlike traditional computer games, these mobile games are more convenient to use, capture potential players through social communication, and have a series of addictive mechanisms in design, so they are very popular among young people.(lixin Ma,2018)Since 2017, a series of reports about college students indulging in mobile games and children stealing their parents' mobile phones and spending huge sums of money to buy virtual item have caused great anger and doubts from the Chinese public.The mainstream media People’s Daily published a series of articles accusing Chinese largest game company’s phenomenal mobile game, “Glory of the Kings” ,of harming the lives of children and youth.In addition, the public also began to pay attention to protecting rural left-behind children from indulging mobile games.It seems that mobile games have an impact on China’s youth, whether urban or rural. In the past few decades, psychology, sociology, communication, education and other disciplines have done a lot of research on online game motivation, online game behavior, online game addiction, online games and learning, online games and social capital, and emotions in online games , gender and ethnic issues in online games.The core issues of these studies are online game behavior and its influencing factors.(Shaohua Huang,2016)These studies have enhanced our understanding of the online games and gamers' practice and emotions in this virtual world.But for Chinese youth who are at risk because of mobile games, their everyday life, their school education, family education, growth experience and the impact of games on their growth have not been taken into account.Outside the government, parents, and the general public, the voices of these young people are lacking.This study aims to address the following research questions: How do they examine their gaming experience, school education experience, and family education experience? What role does games play in the growth of these youth?

Method

In this study,the description of the real life state and game experience of the research object requires a large number of events and details. Through the collection of existing materials and personal oral memories, narrative methods are used to describe and organize youth growth experiences, including in-game, family life and school life.Narrative research applied to thick description(Norman K.Denzin).

Expected Outcomes

Expected outcomes: A narrative research paper focusing on Chinese young people's games and growth

References

Huang Shaohua,Xu Jing.A Review of Foreign Online Game Research——Taking MMORPG as an Example[J].Journal of Huaiyin Teachers College(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition),2015,37(01):106-114+140.

Author Information

Chenglan Lin (presenting / submitting)

East China Normal University

Institute For Advanced Studies In Education

Shanghai

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