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Taxation of Virtual Assets [PDF]
, 2008 The development of vast social networks through Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games has created in-game communities in which virtual assets have real-world values. The question has thus arisen whether such virtual assets are legal subjects of
Wisniewski, Scott
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Learning in virtual worlds : Using communities of practice to explain how people learn from play [PDF]
, 2009 Although there is interest in the educational potential of online multiplayer games and virtual worlds, there is still little evidence to explain specifically what and how people learn from these environments. This paper addresses this issue by exploring
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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2019 Background: Videogame addiction has been suggested as a tentative disorder in 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and was recently officially recognized as a mental health disorder by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Vasilis Stavropoulos +6 more
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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 534-560, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza +4 more
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Metacognition and Self-Scaffolding in MMORPGs: Case Study of an Adolescent Male Gamer [PDF]
, 2015 The genre of massively multiplayer online role-playing games has become increasingly popular with adolescent males. While researchers have studied the social aspect of online role-playing games, there is little known about the metacognitive and self ...
Monem, Ruba
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Videojugadores del League of Legends : el papel de la pasión en el uso abusivo y en el rendimiento [PDF]
, 2016 Los juegos Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) han suscitado preocupación por su potencial adictivo. Los Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) son un nuevo género poco estudiado, pero que goza de gran popularidad, en el que prima el
Bertran Martí, Enric +1 more
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Massively multiplayer online games and social capital: A systematic literature review
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenVideo gaming has historically been regarded as a pastime with addictive potential and has subsequently been the subject of public scrutiny, in media and academia.
Gilles R. Scheifer, Robin Samuel
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Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 381-390, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article draws from a one‐year connective ethnographic study that examined Brazilian transnational children's composing practices on a digital gaming platform named Roblox. Building upon research on digital childhoods, transnational childhoods, and play, the authors thought with concepts of relational bleeding, bending, and diffraction to ...
Mariana Lima Becker, Alex Corbitt
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Massively multiplayer online roleplay games for learning [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter explores whether massively multiplayer online role-play games (MMORPGs) can be usedeffectively to support learning and training communities.
de Freitas, Sara, Griffiths, M.
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Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 401-430, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study aims to enhance our understanding of the factors that predict well‐being in video gaming, a rapidly growing form of entertainment and social engagement. Using self‐determination theory (SDT), the research explores the behaviors of gamer consumers. Data were collected through an online questionnaire.
George Bogdan Drăgan +4 more
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