Academic actors | violent-video-games

This is a mapping of references of academic articles about the Violent Video Games.

In the down right corner we have the purple and blues clusters of psychology. The green above represents articles that are more about psychiatries. The reds that are more towards the miccle generally speaks about culture and communication. The blue cluster even more to the left takes up more of the issues about fears, namely children and violence, shootings and tradegies. As is very clear here there are a lot of clusters. The others focus on respectively media, learning, criminology, pediatrics etc. The striking thing is that it seems like that there are numberous of discourses in discussing the issues in the controversy where many talk about the same fears but in different languages or terminologies where they link to one another in those different areas. Go explore for yourself the different academic approaches to the fears of the controversy.

The academic network of discussion

Here you see the major contributors to the academic side of the discussion. The authors Anderson, Ferguson, Bushman and Freedman are those that are referred most to and on the map we see how they refer to each other in their academic articles.