Academic Ramblings: Avatar Identification
If you’ve ever played an RPG or really any game that allows you to customize your character you’ve likely shared a similar experience: you go through the sliders and try…
Posts tagged “Academic Ramblings”
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Academic Ramblings: Uses, Gratifications, & Motivations of Game Play
Read MoreThis month’s Jargon Schmargon was about game motivations, which is intimately tied to a theory we use quite a bit in game studies called uses and gratifications. Uses and gratifications…
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Academic Ramblings: Frustration Aggression Hypothesis
Read MoreOn today’s episode of Academic Ramblings, we are going to explore the Frustration-Aggression hypothesis. Now, you may be saying, that sounds more like a topic for a jargon schmargon. Don’t…
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Academic Ramblings: Video Games and Friendship
Read MoreIn this episode of academic ramblings, we are going to explore the relationships between (online) video games and friendship. There are a lot of discussions in and around friendship formation…
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Academic Ramblings: Impact of Mental Health Representation in Games: Stigma and Stereotypes
Read MoreIn this episode of Academic Ramblings we focus on the ways in which mental health representation in the media, and games specially, impact the larger discussion around mental health and…
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Academic Ramblings: Unintentional Learning in Games
Read MoreIn this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore unintentional learning in games. While the focus of media effects research has long been on what negative thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours video…
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Academic Ramblings: Parasocial relationships and the Unique Case of Streaming
Read MoreIn this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore how traditional parasocial relationships differ when discussed in the context of streaming. Parasocial relationships is a term developed in the 1950s to…
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Academic Ramblings: The Appeal of Social Deduction Games
Read MoreIn this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore the appeal of social deduction games. Social deduction games (also known as social deception games) are games where players attempt to uncover…