{"id":324024,"date":"2017-05-31T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324024"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:10:57","slug":"one-in-two-young-online-gamers-bullied-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/one-in-two-young-online-gamers-bullied-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;One in two&#8217; young online gamers bullied, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 22% said they had stopped playing a game as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Ditch the Label surveyed around 2,500 young members of the virtual hotel platform Habbo, aged between 12 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>One 16-year-old gamer, Bailey Mitchell, told the BBC he had experienced bullying while playing online games since the age of 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re going to school every day and you&#8217;re being bullied in school you want to go home to your computer to escape,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if you&#8217;re getting more abuse thrown at you it&#8217;s going to put you off doing anything social &#8211; it has for a lot of people I know, me included.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s regular, every other game you&#8217;re in, there&#8217;s always someone who has a mic or types in chat. They&#8217;ll call you some random abusive thing they can think of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Death threats<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Mitchell said he regularly received death threats but enjoyed playing online as the competition against others made the games more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, when I get things, I&#8217;ll reply with something funny or ignore it. But when I was 10 it was like: who are these people, why are they being mean to me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ditch the Label chief executive Liam Hackett said his charity was launching a global campaign to try to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bullying within online gaming environments is a real issue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are standing for acceptance and tolerance within our games and making the internet a better place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report also found:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">47% of those surveyed said they had been threatened in an online game<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">38% said they had been hacked within a game<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">74% said they would like the issue to be taken more seriously<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">29% said bullying and trolling did not affect their enjoyment of online games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Around half of the respondents said they believed extra human moderation would help prevent bullying from occurring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Online games are often violent and based upon conflict,&#8221; said Dr Ian Rivers, a psychologist at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However this study also shows us that we also need to look at the ways in which people interact online while gaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games. 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