Perceptions of Race on Video Game Covers
Timeline
2019-2020
About the project
Material such as video game covers are sometimes the first pieces of media people encounter before playing a game. In this project, I collaborated with undergraduate students from across the U.S. and a research mentor, Dr. Daniel L. Gardner, a doctoral graduate from University of California-Irvine. This research project was developed through the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3 program), a research and professional development program for underrepresented students interested in Information Science. In this project, we explored people’s perceptions of race on video game covers and the implications on people’s perceptions of their own social identities, others’ social identities, and gameplay.
My role
This research project began in the summer of 2019 and continued through 2020. During the project, I served as the project manager for several months where I organized and assigned tasks, meetings, and paper writing. I also helped create and disseminate a survey and analyzed the survey data.
Publications
Gardner, D. and Corvite, S. (2023). First Impressions: Effects of Representation on Video Game Covers. In the Proceedings of the 2023 Digital Games Research Association Annual Meeting
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