Beyond Self-Selection in Video Game Play: An Experimental Examination of the Consequences of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Play

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Experimental Examination ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Video Game Play: Practices of Teenaged Players from Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 270-294
Author(s):  
Aniqa Ali ◽  
Dr. Noshina Saleem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Play Action

The present research study aimed to examining gender differences in gaming patterns and preferences of teenage gamers in Pakistan. The gaming patterns involve frequency of game play and time spent on game play. The video game preferences were measured by exploring game genres and style(mode) in which game players mostly play. The study was quantitative and survey is conducted by using purposive research method as only game player were selected as sample from schools of Islamabad, Pakistan. The close ended questionnaire adapted from ‘Media Self Report Questionnaire’ used by Elliot (2006), Bajovic (2012) and Hodge (2019) was filled by 576 respondents. The study found that teenage girls and boys significantly differ in terms of frequency of game play and time spent on video gaming. It was found that boys mostly play in multiplayer mode and prefer to play action, role playing game and sports game genres. On the other hand girls’ prefer single player mode and adventure, action and horror game genres. The present research can be used as baseline exploratory study for future studies in the domain of video gaming.

scholarly journals Learner interaction in a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG): A sociocultural discourse analysis

ReCALL ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Language Output ◽  
Interactional Features ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

AbstractThis exploratory study investigates the linguistic and social interaction of four intermediate EFL learners during game play in a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). Twelve illustrative episodes drawn from the participants’ text chat, collected in four 70-minute sessions held over a one-month period, are analyzed from a sociocultural perspective. Qualitative analysis reveals the presence of interactional features associated with the development of sociocultural competence. Throughout this study the learners successfully engaged in collaborative social interaction involving dialogue, conducted exclusively in the target language. Participants made appropriate use of politeness involving greetings, informal language, small talk, humor, and leave-takings, as a means to support the operation of collaborative interpersonal relationships. These relationships appeared based on reciprocity, friendship, and teamwork. They were effective in facilitating the creation of a low stress atmosphere characterized by social cohesion that was conducive to co-construction, and the consistent production of coherent target language output. The data indicates that the learners were able to jointly establish, and maintain, states of intersubjectivity through the use of continuers, and requests for assistance relevant to in-game tasks. Learner feedback was positive, and suggests that although the participants found the game play challenging, as this research progressed they became increasingly comfortable as their familiarity with the game increased. Aspects of participation identified by the learners as beneficial included opportunities for risk-taking, enhanced fluency practice, and exposure to vocabulary not normally encountered in regular language classes. The analysis suggests that the game provided access to an environment conducive to forms of collaborative target language use and social interaction identified as beneficial in the sociocultural account of language development.

Relationships between video game play factors and frequency of lucid and control dreaming experiences.

Dreaming ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Sestir ◽  
Ming Tai ◽  
Jennifer Peszka
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
And Control
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