SIO167: Studying Sexism and Video Games with Johannes Breuer
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 22 November 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Johannes Breuer is the co-author of a study which looked into the relationship between sexist attitudes and video game playing. To be as precise as possible and not misrepresent it, here is what they found in their words: "We found that the amount of overall video game use at time 1 was not predictive of sexist attitudes/beliefs about gender roles at time 2 (i.e., 2 years later) and that (sexist) beliefs about gender roles at time 1 were equally not predictive of video game use at time 2 (for sample of German players aged 14 and older)." So that's the bland tl;dr version, but we talk through the study, methodology, and what the implications are. We also talk a lot about what this study does NOT show, which is equally important and is easy to lose track of sometimes.
Here are the links to the book chapters where Johannes's work is featured, and here's a good writeup on the original study.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 167. I'm your host Thomas Smith and |
| 0:34.9 | today I bring you an interview with Johannes Brewer who it's not you'll see |
| 0:41.7 | how you actually pronounce that in a minute. I'm not going to try sorry I'm not don't know how to speak German or sound like I speak German. Anyway, he was a co-author of a really interesting study on gaming and sexism and it came to some conclusions |
| 0:58.5 | that I don't know you might find counterintuitive but it's a fully acknowledging it's a very complex area and there's |
| 1:05.9 | so much more to study. |
| 1:08.1 | But I think there's, this is a really interesting one and Johannes was kind enough to come on and try to walk me through it. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, again, as a non-academic, you'll hear me ask plenty of basic questions. |
| 1:19.0 | So sorry to all my academics listening that that will probably be a little basic for you but for everybody |
| 1:24.2 | else hopefully you're you know here as dumb as I am and then it'll be fine. |
| 1:29.4 | I want to thank Christy Winters for setting this up. |
| 1:32.0 | Christy is fantastic by the way. |
| 1:33.9 | She's sent me a few people over the, |
| 1:36.4 | I guess, a couple of years of our relationship now, |
| 1:38.8 | and they're always good. |
| 1:40.1 | So thanks, Christie. |
| 1:41.5 | And check out her channel on YouTube of course. |
| 1:45.0 | If you search her you'll come across a bunch of ugly anti-feminist stuff so you'll have to actually |
| 1:49.5 | find her channel which is Dr. K.M. Winters, you can find it on there somehow. |
| 1:55.4 | Anyway, thanks to Christie, and let's go on over to Johannes to learn more about this study. Yes, how are you doing? |
| 2:08.0 | Johannes, how are you doing? |
| 2:10.0 | Good, thank you. |
| 2:11.0 | Why don't you tell everybody how to actually pronounce your name? |
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