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Games on Games. Game Design as Critical Reflexive Practice

G|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies, 2016
Can video game design be compared to more formalized practices of scientific research or speculation within game studies? And, by virtue of an intellectual leap that in itself calls for discussion, can video games be considered as an efficient vehicle ...
Giovanni Caruso, Riccardo Fassone, Gabriele Ferri, Stefano Gualeni, Mauro Salvador   +4 more
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Exploiting the "video game craze": A case study of the tobacco industry's use of video games as a marketing tool.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundVideo games have grown in popularity since the 1970s, and tobacco imagery is present in a substantial subset of games, including those oriented to youth. Much like exposure to tobacco content in films, exposure to tobacco content in video games
Patricia A McDaniel, Susan R Forsyth
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Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains ...
Deborah A. Potter
wiley   +1 more source

When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Impact of Perceived Challenge on Narrative Immersion in Video Games: The Role-Playing Game Genre as a Case Study

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This paper explores the intricate interplay between perceived challenge and narrative immersion within role-playing game (RPG) video games, motivated by the escalating influence of game difficulty on player choices.
José Miguel Domingues, Vítor Filipe, André Carita, Vítor Carvalho   +3 more
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Team Cognition Research Is Transforming Cognitive Science

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract About 30 years ago, the Dynamical Hypothesis instigated a variety of insights and transformations in cognitive science. One of them was the simple observation that, quite unlike trial‐based tasks in a laboratory, natural ecologically valid behaviors almost never have context‐free starting points.
Michael J. Spivey
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of audio versus audiovisual stimuli with or without face masking on judgements about different varieties of Asian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
wiley   +1 more source

Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
wiley   +1 more source

Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
wiley   +1 more source

“They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a kinship anthropology of policing framework to analyze the complexities and contestedness of police reform trajectories. Kinship is approached in a processual sense, made through practices and performances, and I contend that police officers act as a kin‐like group who engage in kinning.
Tessa Diphoorn
wiley   +1 more source