Editing University of Oregon students’ post on violent video games (Tang, 2008)

For the past few days, Google alerts e-mailed links to first-year students blog posts on violent video games and I’ve spent late at night reading them and giving them my feedback. I feel like a salary-free teaching assistant. Anyways, these students all came from Tiffany Gallicano’s class of Mass Media and Society.
From what I [...]

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Some articles for video games & language learning blog (Tang, 2008)

I can’t help myself to help others and to drop everything what I’m supposed to do like getting my next article post ready. One of Barlett’s study is already published and I haven’t even started reading it. Sigh…
Anyways, my google alert e-mailed a link to a blog called “I married a communist” which is [...]

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Stereotyped-bodies of male and female video game characters affecting body self-image (Barlett & Harris, 2008)

I meant to post this three weeks ago, but a lot of things happened since the last post: my first restaurant job (Last week was full of crap), volunteering in a second lab, juggling my lab time with the first lab, preparing the logistics for my independent research project, researching potential advisors for my second [...]

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