The Cultural Impact of Video Games: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an excellent article with great potential to inform our field. The authors are to be congratulated for tackling an understudied aspect and bringing rigor to the process. I have some suggestions that I think could strengthen the article:

How do games as cultural transmission tools differ or reflect other forms of media as transmission tools? What accounts for any differences? Your point about "participatory" media would seem particularly relevant to this, as is agency, identity, ownership and responsibility (we don't OBSERVE the ethical choices made, we MAKE those choices and observe the consequences).

What, also, should we make of barriers and access--whose culture is being ampified? Whose is not?

Very strange mis-use of words bordering on malapropism--"Processess that in turn vertebrate cultural processes" and "influenced the irruption of new tools." Punctuation/grammatical errors also abound. A strong final edit is required.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

I consider it a good work, with a clear structure and solid contents in terms of bibliometrics. The diagrams that establish relationships between different items are very interesting and clarifying.

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Reviewer 3 Report

This is a decently written systematic review of the cultural impact of video games. I didn’t find significant issues in the 2. Materials and Methods and 3. Results sections. However, I am not sure that this manuscript is within the scope of the journal Education Sciences since it lacks a pedagogical point of view (e.g., none of the 12 research questions are related to educational topics). Additionally, I have some comments regarding the clarity of the text:

1. All the references mentioned in the text should be numbered consecutively. A number is allocated to a reference in the order in which it is cited in the text.

2. “new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired, new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired, new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired, new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired, new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired, new ideas, new skills and new knowledge are acquired: new ideas, skills and knowledge are acquired” (Page 1, 35-39) - ?

3. “In his research he” (Page 2, line 90) - Who? I guess it is Jenkins [27]. However, The Last of Us (game) was released in 2013, but Jenkins’s paper was published in 2008.

4. The 4. Conclusion and discussion section is entirely out of the scope of the Education Sciences journal. 

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Reviewer 4 Report

This is a well written article with an original intersting idea on video games and their cultural impact through a literature review.

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Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

The clarity of the manuscript is improved. The authors added some clarifications based on my comments.