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Links between Video Games and other Media: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Transmedia Storytelling

open access: yesProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Design and Digital Technology, ADDT 2023, September 15–17, 2023, Xi’an, China
: In this study, we explore the unique role of video games within the realm of transmedia storytelling, a concept initially defined by Henry Jenkins in 2006.
Nuozhou Chen, Jiaqi Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rational Feelings for Virtual Things?

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the rationality of affective responses to virtual phenomena. I argue that at least some such responses can be perfectly rational, but that virtual realism and virtual irrealism—competing views about the metaphysics of the virtual—differ in their verdicts about the possible rationality of certain types of responses ...
Christopher Howard
wiley   +1 more source

Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating*

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Although singlehood is a desired lifestyle for an increasing number of heterosexual women and men, many are involuntarily single, struggling to find a partner. Meanwhile, popular debates about dating are sharply polarized along gendered lines. While “incels” see themselves as victims on a dating market ruled by women, relatively mainstreamed feminist ...
Lena Gunnarsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*

open access: yesSociological 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

From Consoles to Classrooms: Preliminary Insights About Pre-Service Teachers and Video Games

open access: yesEuropean Conference on Games Based Learning
Integrating video games into the classroom is a promising way to enhance learning experiences, as the market of serious games is expanding. European schools are investing in digital equipment, and the use of educational video games is technologically ...
Masiar Babazadeh   +3 more
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

open access: yesThe 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

Team Cognition Research Is Transforming Cognitive Science

open access: yesTopics 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

open access: yesWorld 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

open access: yesJournal 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

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

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