Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)
Professor James O'Higgins Norman:
Yes. I was going to say that we have not conducted our own research on that topic. However, in gaming, for example, where young people are online playing games, it is not so much even the content of the games but rather some of the behaviour of the people who play games and the way in which they relate to women and talk about females within gaming. The research has shown that that and the perception of misogyny and sexism that comes across on gaming platforms can be quite negative. One statistic I found was that if you speak with a female voice when playing an online game, you are three times more likely to receive negative comments and harassment. That is very much linked to how females are perceived in that space, so there is more work to be done there.
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