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Friday, June 17 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Quelling Extremism in Online Games

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The legacy of Gamergate has been a steady rise in toxicity and extremism in online games. Almost no title, from Roblox to Red Dead Redemption II, has proven itself exempt. Today, 98% of adult gamers experience positive social interactions online while 83% experience some form of hate and harassment (Anti-Defamation League, 2021). We have more than a decade of empirical research documenting how games are powerful vehicles for learning; so what do we do when such spaces are overrun with hate speech, harassment, trolls, and hate raids?
The Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center, with support from the UCI Confronting Extremism Program, recently hosted an academic summit on extremism in online games among experts across domains in conjunction with the GLS 2022 Conference. In this presentation, we report out on our deliberations to present (1) an agenda for research to better understand and therefore address extremism in online games and (2) a set of actionable recommendations for combating extremism in the gaming communities on our university campuses and beyond them, within the broader community.
Master of Ceremonies
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Aaron Trammell

University of California, Irvine
Aaron Trammell is an Assistant Professor of Informatics and Core Faculty in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. He write about how Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and board games inform the lived experiences of their players. Specifically, he is interested in how these games further... Read More →

Speakers
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Garrison Wells

University of California, Irvine
Garrison Wells is a PhD student in informatics at the University of California-Irvine, advised by Dr. Constance Steinkuehler. Gary completed his B.A. in Psychology at the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2016, and in 2017 earned his Msc. in Psychological Research from the... Read More →
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Constance Steinkuehler

Professor of Informatics, University of California–Irvine
Constance Steinkuehler is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine where she researches culture, cognition, and learning in the context of multiplayer online videogames. She is an ADL Belfer Fellow, Chair of UCI’s Game Design and Interactive... Read More →

Friday June 17, 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Pacific Ballroom A UCI Conference Center, 311 W Peltason Dr # A, Irvine, CA 92697
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