An ESRC-funded project on the blurring between gaming and gambling
We’re currently recruiting children and young people in the North East of England to talk to us about their experiences of gaming and in-game purchases. Specifically we’re interested in youngsters who have bought loot-box style items. Loot-boxes are digital items in games that you buy with real-world money and contain random contents of unknown value…
Dr James Ash (Newcastle University) and Dr Sarah Mills (Loughborough University) have secured funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to undertake vital research to understand how children and young people use and respond to gambling style systems in games in their everyday lives. The project is concerned with whether these systems cause gambling-like…