The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …
This study examined male and female sexuality in video game characters. The top 20, best selling console (Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation2, and Nintendo GameCube) video games …
We document the need to examine digital game play and app use as a context for cognitive development, particularly during middle childhood. We highlight this developmental period …
FC Blumberg, SM Fisch - New directions for child and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The authors present reasons why developmental psychologists should care about children's and adolescents' digital game play. These reasons may be identified as: a) digital game play …
Video games often contain sexist content that may be connected to negative consequences for female video game players, such as internalizing negative attitudes and beliefs about …
SM Fisch - Media effects, 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
All too often, discussions of the effects of electronic media on children focus solely on the negative. Some critics have argued-with little, if any, basis in empirical data-that exposure to …
R Weber, KM Behr, R Tamborini… - Journal of Computer …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Multiple studies have been addressing effects of playing violent video games. However, most such studies neglect users' individual experiences. In fact, each player's gameplaying …
Imagine yourself living in the United States as an asylum seeker from Haiti; an Indian green- card holder; a Polish-American citizen with legal paperwork issues and a record of a …
T his chapter aims to conceptualize and systematize the past decade's theoretical and empirical work on digital games. 1 We focus on the social scientific perspective, with special …