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How Do World of Warcraft-Players Experience and Give Meaning to Their Activity? An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

open access: yes, 2011
With its 12 million players World of Warcraft (WoW) is one of the most popular computer games to date. The game s versatility makes it a unique phenomenon for scientific and even philosophic exploration. However, the public's attention has mainly been directed to stories of players who are portrayed as victims to the games seductiveness.
Skouverøe, Knut Joachim Mår   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Extension of Isoconversional Analysis to Diffusion‐Controlled Epoxy Cure Kinetics: Comparison With Model‐Fitting Approaches

open access: yesPolymer Engineering &Science, EarlyView.
Extending isoconversional analysis of DSC data to diffusion‐controlled regimes captures the rise in apparent activation energy upon vitrification and yields TTT diagrams of RTM6 epoxy resin that remain accurate when diffusion, rather than chemistry, governs the cure rate.
Didina‐Ramona‐Casandra Cârstea   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sources of Strength for School‐Based Suicide Prevention: Key Implementation Strategies Based on School Professional Perspectives

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As concerns for rising rates of youth suicide and suicidal thoughts and behaviors continue to grow, there is a need to prioritize school‐based suicide prevention programs. Despite evidence documenting the effectiveness of school‐based prevention programs for reducing suicide‐related risk in adolescents, schools face numerous barriers to ...
Marisa E. Marraccini   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Enjoyment and Vitality as Mediators of Cognitive Flexibility and Reflective Teaching in EFL Teachers: A Mixed‐Methods Serial Mediation Analysis

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Reflective teaching (RT) is influenced by a range of cognitive, pedagogical, and psycho‐affective factors in second/foreign language (L2) education. However, empirical evidence on the influence of psycho‐affective variables on teachers' reflectivity remains limited.
Lili Qin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Cutting Edges to the Cutting Edge: Knowing and Theorizing Through Collage Inquiry

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by ongoing debates about the need for more novel and pluralistic management research, this paper explores the different ways of researching, knowing and theorizing emerging from the arts‐based method of collage inquiry. We used a problematizing approach to examine how collage inquiry has been used in management research and ...
Georgia Stavraki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resonance and Psychic Affirmation: A Comparison of Hartmut Rosa's and Daniel Haybron's Conceptions of Human Happiness

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
wiley   +1 more source

The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

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