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How Strangers Fall in Love in Games: Affective Infrastructures and Platformed Intimacy in China
Social Media + SocietyIn the platformized era, digital games have become key arenas for romantic connection, yet their role in shaping intimacy between strangers remains underexplored. This study examines how such relationships are initiated, developed, and evaluated in Honor
Meng Wang
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Appareil, 2013 Cet article élabore une nouvelle structure pour permettre d’étudier les jeux (games) comme des lieux de rationalisation sociale, en appliquant la théorie critique de la technologie de Feenberg.
Sara M. Grimes, Andrew Feenberg
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Trouble in Watopia: Negotiating Community Wellbeing and Cheating in Zwift eSports Cycling
Eracle, 2022 This article examines Zwift (2015), a massively multiplayer online game that uses an indoor trainer to connect one’s bicycle to a virtual world. Using the trainer’s various sensors, the game translates speed, cadence, and power data into the movement of
Sarah Thorne
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Mom, Dad It’s Only a Game! Perceived Gambling and Gaming Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults: an Exploratory Study [PDF]
, 2014 Gambling and gaming are increasingly popular activities among adolescents. Although gambling is illegal in Portugal for youth under the age of 18 years, gambling opportunities are growing, mainly due to similarity between gambling and other technology ...
Alexandre, J, Calado, F, Griffiths, MD
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An evaluation of checkpoint recovery for massively multiplayer online games [PDF]
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2009 Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) have emerged as an exciting new class of applications for database technology. MMOs simulate long-lived, interactive virtual worlds, which proceed by applying updates in frames or ticks, typically at 30 or 60 Hz.
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles +6 more
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Historically videogames were simplistic, offering only a few ways to play a game, with limited chances to interact with others unless they were sitting next to you. This simplicity led videogame research to often use a simple approach of measuring how one variable affected another.
Patrick J. Ewell
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Analysis of context dependence in social interaction networks of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Rapid advances in modern computing and information technology have enabled millions of people to interact online via various social network and gaming services.
Seokshin Son +5 more
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In-game Social Interaction and Gaming Disorder: A Perspective From Online Social Capital
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background and Aims: Social interaction in the online games has been found to predict gaming disorder, but little research has examined the mechanism of this association.
Shupeng Heng +3 more
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International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.The phenomenon of online gaming, particularly its effects, has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies. League of Legends (LoL) is a game that has attracted a lot of attention due to its widespread appeal and impact on players and is a leading example of the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre.
Mirko Duradoni +12 more
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Fictional videogames as framing devices
EludamosIn this paper, I argue that the use of fictional Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests an understanding of MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication. To do this,
Julián Gutiérrez Carrera
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