The prevalence of digital media use among children and adolescents is indisputable. One medium to which children and adolescents dedicate a sizeable portion of their time is that of the digital game. Accordingly, digital game play continues to grow as a ...

Exergaming (a portmanteau of “exercise” and “gaming”) is a relatively new genre of interactive video gaming that stimulates an active, whole-body gaming experience. Exergaming could have a significant positive impact on youth as across the globe youth are ...

Almost all children play video games at some point and many play regularly. Not only are games ubiquitous in children’s leisure environments but the motivational and skill-enhancing potentialities of this technology are being exploited increasingly in ...

Millions in taxpayer and foundation euros and dollars have been spent building and testing educational video games, games for health, and serious games. What have been the fruits of this frenzy of activity? What educational video game has had the reach ...

Recent research suggests that video games and social media may influence youths’ lives in ways that deserve attention from psychologists, mathematics educators, and learning scientists. For example, positive effects on engagement, which can increase ...

This article provides a synthesis of a group of research studies conducted to better understand in what ways children’s entertainment video game play choices relate to their creativity, motivations, problem-solving strategies, learning preferences, and ...

In this section we present examples of current research projects related to young people and media. Each of these projects uses media to improve the knowledge of the user. There are examples of games to encourage interaction between young people and ...