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Posts tagged “Academic Ramblings”

  • Academic Ramblings: Avatar Identification

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Oct 13, 2021 · Research

    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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  • Academic Ramblings: Uses, Gratifications, & Motivations of Game Play

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Sep 8, 2021 · Research

    This 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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  • Academic Ramblings: Frustration Aggression Hypothesis

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Aug 11, 2021 · Research

    On 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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  • Academic Ramblings: Video Games and Friendship

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Jul 14, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of academic ramblings, we are going to explore the relationships between (online) video games and friendship. There are a lot of discussions in and around friendship formation…

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  • Academic Ramblings: Impact of Mental Health Representation in Games: Stigma and Stereotypes

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Jun 9, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of Academic Ramblings we focus on the ways in which mental health representation in the media, and games specially, impact the larger discussion around mental health and…

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  • Academic Ramblings: Unintentional Learning in Games

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · May 12, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore unintentional learning in games.  While the focus of media effects research has long been on what negative thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours video…

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  • Academic Ramblings: Parasocial relationships and the Unique Case of Streaming

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Mar 17, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore how traditional parasocial relationships differ when discussed in the context of streaming.  Parasocial relationships is a term developed in the 1950s to…

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  • Academic Ramblings: The Appeal of Social Deduction Games

    By  Dr. Rachel Kowert · Feb 10, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of Academic Ramblings, we explore the appeal of social deduction games.  Social deduction games (also known as social deception games) are games where players attempt to uncover…

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