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…
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Jargon Schmargon: Self Determination Theory
Read MoreIn this episode of Jargon Schmargon, we discuss Self-Determination Theory in the context of video game play motivations. Self Determination Theory, or SDT, is something I have talked about in…
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Video Games in a Post-COVID 19 World
Read MoreIn the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the general discourse about video games in the public and media seems to have shifted in relation to the uses and effects…
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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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Jargon Schmargon: Play Motivations
Read MoreIn this episode of Jargon Schmargon, we take a look at play motivations. What motivates us to play games, beyond the simple act of “having fun”. Several play motivation models…
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State of the Research: Violent Video Games
Read MoreIn this all new State of the Research, we tackle the big kahuna: Violent video games. Specifically, we tackle the three broad issues associated with claims of violent video game…
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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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Video Games in a Post-COVID 19 World
Read MoreIn the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the general discourse about video games in the public and media seems to have shifted in relation to the uses and effects…