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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We extend ecosystem theory to cases in which platforms are complementors to each other: inter‐platform ecosystems. Analyzing web traffic data on 241 European platforms, we identify and characterize demand‐side inter‐platform ecosystems, and propose a theory of why they emerge.
Bruno Carballa‐Smichowski +3 more
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Automatic mental processes, automatic actions and behaviours in game transfer phenomena: an empirical self-report study using online forum data [PDF]
, 2014 Previous studies have demonstrated that the playing of videogames can have both intended and unintended effects. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of videogames on players’ mental processes and behaviours in day-to-day settings ...
A Ichimura +25 more
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Cultural Geography and Videogames [PDF]
Geography Compass, 2011 Abstract While videogames have been a popular form of entertainment practice for a number of decades, it is only recently that they have been paid much attention by academics. Although there is a burgeoning body of scholarship that deals with videogames in new media and games studies, human geography is only just beginning to offer ...
Ash, James, Gallacher, Lesley Anne
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A machine for playing in: Exploring the videogame as a medium for architectural design
Design Studies, 2020 This paper aims to investigate what is unique about videogame spaces and their construction, and how they might be utilised by architects. This design-led study establishes videogames as an architectural medium through practice-based research projects ...
L. Pearson
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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Online Risk Behaviours Among Adolescents: Identifying Areas of Digital Vulnerability
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a period during which they undergo important physical, emotional and social changes, adolescence is of great importance for minors. In addition, adolescence is an initial stage in terms of children's use of their own mobile devices and their first access to the internet and social networks, an activity that becomes a generalised habit in ...
Sonia Carcelén‐García +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 Video-gaming is a common pastime among adolescents, particularly adolescent males in industrialized nations. Despite widespread suggestions that video-gaming negatively affects academic achievement, the evidence is inconclusive.
Aaron Drummond, James D Sauer
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"Gaming and the arts of storytelling" introduction [PDF]
, 2018 The title of this Special Issue of Arts makes use of some ambiguous terms: ‘gaming’ rather than ‘videogames’; the plural ‘arts’ rather than the singular ‘art’.
Jayemanne, Darshana
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Computer and Videogame Interventions for Older Adults' Cognitive and Everyday Functioning
Games for Health Journal, 2019 Objective: This study compared older adults' gains in cognitive and everyday functioning after a 60-session home-based videogame intervention with gains seen under formal cognitive training and usual care/no intervention.
P. Belchior +6 more
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