{"id":231,"date":"2006-01-26T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-10-21T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:46:22","slug":"when-where-do-people-play-what-games-using-which-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/01\/26\/when-where-do-people-play-what-games-using-which-device\/","title":{"rendered":"When, Where, do People play What Games using Which Device?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has just released a really good <a href=\"http:\/\/open.bbc.co.uk\/newmediaresearch\/files\/BBC_UK_Games_Research_2005.pdf\">in-depth report on how people game in the United Kingdom<\/a>.<br \/>\nNot only does it provide details for six age groups (6-10, 11-15, 16-24, 25-35, 36-50, 51-65) and two genders, they also make distinctions between different platforms down to cell phones, and let us get a peek at personal motivations for playing as well as important players find games compared to other media. It&#8217;s a treat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; How many people are playing games in the UK?<br \/>\n&#8211; How, where, when and why they play games?<br \/>\n&#8211; When is the family television used as a monitor for a console?<br \/>\n&#8211; The context in which gaming plays a role in people?s lives?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do people play games in isolation, or in a social situation?<br \/>\n&#8211; How does the public?s relationship with radio, television and mobile devices affect the games they play?<br \/>\n&#8211; What value do people place on the time spent playing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promising well for the future, the  6-10 and the 11-15 rank video games as the most important medium they are using.<\/p>\n<p>(Via Jose P. Zagal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has just released a really good in-depth report on how people game in the United Kingdom. Not only does it provide details for six age groups (6-10, 11-15, 16-24, 25-35, 36-50, 51-65) and two genders, they also make distinctions between different platforms down to cell phones, and let us get a peek at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/01\/26\/when-where-do-people-play-what-games-using-which-device\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When, Where, do People play What Games using Which Device?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}