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Darum ist Pokémon Go bei Muslimen verpönt
(This is why Pokémon Go is frowned upon by muslims)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, game, law, politics, privacy, threat
Summary | Many muslim authorities in varioius countries such as Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have declared Pokémon Go as wildly inappropriate for muslims. It references othher religions (with symbols) which allow for multiple gods along side each other, it propagates Darwin's theory of evolution, and most importantly: it constitutes gambling which is prohibited by the Qur'an. This does not mean that the state in Malaysia enforces that religious advice as a law. Non-muslim people are also worried about Pokémon Go but not because of ideological issues but because it can be seen as a surveillance scam and so a privacy breach hazard.
Image Description | Men playing Pokémon Go and portraits of a few male experts mentioned in the article.
Image Tags | game, male(s), smartphone
Kopfschuss: Glatte Eins!
(Shot to the head: A+!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, gender, school, threat, youth
Summary | A school in Norway is offering a course in E-sport, i.e. playing online team sports in shooter video games like Counter:Strike. The course is very popular among the male students (only one female student has taken the course) and has shown that students at risk of failing the year tend to do better in school overall when they are in a video game class. They get boosts of self-confidence because they can hold presentations about something they are passionate about. The school wants to reflect their students' reality in their curriculum and video games are a passion of many students and a future job for some of them. Shooter games are less stigmatized in Norway than in Germany.
Image Description | Image of male students playing video games.
Image Tags | game, male(s), school
"Wir wollen die Menschen aus ihrem Zombiesein aufwecken"
("We want to wake people up from their zombie existence")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 3.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game. It is different from virtual reality in that it uses the real topography around the player as the site of the game which is virtually enhanced with Pokémon which can be "caught". It was designed to make people engage with the outside world and each other while playing, to lead people into parks they never went to. The most effective way to do that nowadays is to create an incentive with the smartphone.
Image Description | Getty image of Pokémon Go players at night and a portrait of the interviewee.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Nach Spielen im Internet kann man süchtig werden
(One can get addicted to games on the internet)
Newspaper | General-Anzeiger
Date | 10.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, game, school, threat, youth
Summary | Internet games have a high addiction potential because one needs to spend a lot of time on it to succeed. Experts say that if one spends more than 4 hours a day on games, one has a problem and needs to seek professional help. Game addicts stop seeing their friends and let their school grades slide.
Image Description | Image of a boy sitting with his smartphone in his lap.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s), smartphone
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