Tag: digital games
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Reviewing the Virtual Worlds Entertainment Study
These thoughts were produced at the end of my time on this project, in May of 2012, for the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University. These thoughts involve my reflection on the project that I completed as part of the research group, and do not reflect the thoughts of anyone else involved with the…
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Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power
[This paper comes from 2007 and was completed for a qualitative methodology course at Ohio State University under the amazing Patti Lather. She encouraged us to try different methods of communication research results; so I did a comic book, which you can see here.] What is digital game addiction? A number of approaches, theories, and…
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Digital game players’ preferences: Concluding thoughts
(Part one of this paper can be found with the literature review here, while part two with the method and analysis sections can be found here. The full paper, with references, can be found here.) DISCUSSION In undertaking this study, our purpose was to address several questions in regards to our understanding of players’…
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Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender
(The literature review for this paper can be found in this previous post.) Study overview As indicated above, our purpose for this study was to enter the literature on gender differences in game playing with two variations on the extant literature. One of these was to include male and female assessments of game playing gratifications…
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