Video Games a New Challenge or a New Chance: How Digital Values in Video Games Can Instill Globalization Values in Your Children?

Abstract

The main purpose of this cross-cultural study of socialization is to examine  local cultural factors against  global cultural factors, by investigating  the nature of relationship between north  digital values in  video games  and   Egyptian children values  and beliefs .

Content  analysis  of north  digital values in  video games  was carried out to describe the following tasks:  surrounding environment , beauty  values, gender relationship , closes type , goals  and   goals  tools . Meanwhile   survey  study was carried out January 2016  in greater Cairo “ Cairo-Giza governorates” - Egypt .

Study results show  that value of getting money and getting gender relationship are the most important winning values.  Also there are  significant relationship between acceptance degree of  north  digital values in  video games  and the habit of using video games .  One-way Analysis of variance was used to examine effects of gender, school types and  parents participation , on the privacy relationship , all examined factors were significant, which gives a good indication of how local social factor can play an important role in minimizing north values impact on Egyptian children values structure

Keywords

Cross-cultural communication , Egyptian children values , North  digital values, Video games PlayStation , Socialization , Center periphery and Symbolic environment.