The impact of voice in an online video game (Williams et al., 2007)

This relates to the kotaku article about players using teamspeak. This study is more related to the video games than the Sheeks & Birchmeier (2007) study. On that note from Kotaku about voice being a mood killer, it sounds like a nice hypothesis to check out. I should also check out the mostly-male players reactions [...]

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Shyness, Sociability, and the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication in Relationship Development (Sheeks & Birchmeier, 2007)

What does that got to do with computer games? Actually it relates to our communication with each other through computers. Kotaku wrote a nice post from Wired’s Clive Thompson about using Teamspeak over at World of Warcraft (I prefer the kotaku link first because of the funny picture, but kotaku still has the wired link). [...]

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Differences between playing a lot and addiction in MMOs (Charlton & Danforth, 2007)

This study is at least 3 years old now, it was published online in 2005 and only recently “officially” published in paper just last year. It’s really hard on me since I have to keep my library references up to date. Also, I haven’t counted the exact number of article published for 2007 that relates [...]

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Social evaluations of stereotypes in video games (Brenick et al., 2007)

Gamepolitics.com featured a Fox News show called Live Desk where they talked about the sexual scenes in Mass Effect. What got my attention is the study that Cooper Lawrence had mentioned.
“Darling, I gotta go with the research. And the research says there’s a new study out of the University of Maryland right now that says that boys [...]

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Relation of time spent on video games and other activities (Cummings & Vandewater, 2007)

This is to follow up on the previous post about video game use and academic performance. This article was also referred by gamepolitics.com.
 Abstract
Objective  To examine the notion that playing video games is negatively related to the time adolescents spend in more developmentally appropriate activities. Design  Nonexperimental study.
Setting  Survey data collected during the 2002-2003 school year.
Participants  [...]

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Video game use and academic performance (Anand, 2007)

Among gamers and public, there are differing opinions about video games and how it affects children’s academic performance. Most gamers say it has a positive or no effect on their academic performance, most parents and teachers I heard state the opposite. As for academia, well this article isn’t the first to look at video game [...]

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Appeal of violent video games to lower educated aggressive adolescent boys (Lemmens & Bushman, 2006)

This article came up in my mind while I was in my shower, I was thinking about the Konijn et al. (2007) article and one of its methodological limitation of using boys from a lower-echelon education level instead of a representative sample of the entire youth population. In any case, this article here looks into education [...]

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Simulating factors of aggression in video games (Tang, questions)

This morning or was it yesterday night. I was thinking of how we can manipulate real life factors of aggression and have them tested in video games. It’s much like a simulation similar to the zimbardo experiment where players would assume roles the game assigns them to. Sure, they’re individuals who can’t pretend to be [...]

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