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		<title>The virtual census: gender and ethnic representation in internet casual videogames (Wohn, 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who only play casual videogames do not necessarily and sufficiently have the gaming capital to call themselves gamers, I call them casual gamers. But, the label is to strictly differentiate from the proper gamer. I play casual videogames, mostly on Kongregate and the specials on Steam. However, I have some gaming capital that makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1627&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gotta catch ‘em all: videogame studies of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to my citeulike search, I have picked up 205 videogames articles published online in 2011, an astonishing increase from last year’s 133 articles. There are many explanations for this growth: better search algorithms, increasing academic attention to videogames, indiscriminate tagging where some may not be actually about videogames, expanding inclusion of certain publications, some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1620&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Longitudinal study on Canadian adolescents&#8217; videogame play and aggression (Willoughby et al., 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developmental Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last week, I came back home to Montreal and went into a long hibernation. On the subject of Canada, the Adolescent Development lab (Teena Willoughby, Brock University) have an in-press paper in Developmental Psychology on data from their longitudinal-sequential survey of Canadian adolescents. As far as I remember, this is the first Canadian longitudinal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1596&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The effects of violent video games. Do they affect our behavior? (Bushman, 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Bushman (Ohio State University) wrote up an article at the International Human Press about violent videogames effects citing well-known research studies and the 1972 Surgeon General&#8217;s warning of the adverse effects of violent television. Well, the writing is straightforward and addressed many common questions and retorts that many often see (e.g. I play violent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1593&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher J. Ferguson&#8217;s words for Christmas (Ferguson, 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I have an inbox overflowing with potential articles waiting to be skimmed over and tagged away in my library. I came across a recent piece in the Times by Christopher J. Ferguson (Texas A&#38;M International University) about his most recent research for the Holiday season. Whilst he cited studies that showed no effects between violent video [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1586&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Children From Dangerous &#8220;Free&#8221; Speech &#8211; Video games and the teenage brain (Pollard-Sacks, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/protecting-children-from-dangerous-free-speech-video-games-and-the-teenage-brain-pollard-sacks-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Bushman (Ohio State University, this blogger&#8217;s advisor) sent me a Pacifica radio podcast (KPFT-FM, Houston, TX) about the effects of violent videogame effects and the recent Supreme court case (Brown vs EMA). It&#8217;s 30 minutes long. The host is Prof. Deana Pollard-Sacks, the other radio guest is Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California &#8211; Irwin). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1580&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Videogame industry in Canada</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/the-videogame-industry-in-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An infographic by Techvibes Media (found in reddit). Now, if only I could count the number of video game social scientists, apart from people I remember: Paul Adachi (Brock University), Bart Simon (Concordia University; sociologist), Robert Biddle and colleagues at Carleton University, Amanda Bolton (somewhere in the Atlantic provinces) and some people from the West Coast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1573&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three studies on attention bias and its relation to online videogame addiction</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/three-studies-on-attention-bias-and-its-relation-to-online-videogame-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, I posted a study on videogame addiction and its relation to cognitive bias towards videogame words. Following Decker &#38; Gay’s publication, two similar studies were published during the past summer of which they made references to Decker &#38; Gay (2011). Not wanting to leave out those two studies, I decided to review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1567&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing to win or to hurt and aggressive behaviours (Adachi &amp; Willoughby, 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in late August 2011, news about Paul Adachi and Teen Willoughby’ (Brock University) study went through the media circuits which elated many gamers about the effects of competitiveness and violence in videogames. I was busy with other priorities and since the actual article was publicly available, it lessened my need to expedite a review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1553&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Beats! and attitudes and behaviours towards organ donation</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/angel-beats-and-attitudes-and-behaviours-towards-organ-donation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anime and manga are my second interests and I was meditating on its academic merits in communication science and media studies during my first year of graduate shool. Anime is becoming popular in the West with anime conventions popping up across the States and Canada (there’s one in Montreal) and that had me thinking its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=994159&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=vgresearcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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