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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Gamer"”.
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The Gamer
… girlfriend. She also happens to be an awesome gamer. She enters the tournament, but Drew doesn't know. Will Drew and Travis get to go to college?</p>
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The Gamer Culture: An Exploration of Gamer Archetypes and Their Relationship with Coping Strengths
… was to investigate the relationship between gamer personality types, preferred coping strategies, and levels of resiliency as a means of beginning to understand the psychological factors making up the gamer culture. This study used a demographic questionnaire, the BrainHex Gamer Personality …
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Game Appropriation: Where does the gamer fit?
… Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) into gamers’ daily practices, including the nature of their gameplay. Gaming is not viewed as a set of defined moments of participation but as a dynamic activity, directly interrelated with a gamers’ everyday life. Therefore, a broad perspective on …
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The travelling gamer : an ethnography of video game events
This thesis is an ethnography of video gamers and video game events. It considers the social and cultural practices of video gamers away from the video game screen, and in particular focuses on those who participate in, and attend, various video game related events. Previous studies on video games …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
… in turn constructs and disciplines the woman gamer subject in specific ways.
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Playing with Power: An Autoethnographic Study of "The Last of Us" as a Black Gamer
… the game through play and interacted with gamers in communities of play. This experience made me realize that my initial research concerns were focused on an academic lens, but as an avid media consumer, I also connected deeply with the gaming experience. My study/play borrows from Arthur …
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Fequência gamer: o impacto da inteligência artificial nas profissões dos games e a interseção com a comunicação
O uso da inteligência artificial (IA) está crescendo em diversas áreas, incluindo nas profissões da indústria de videogames. A IA, que funciona por meio de algoritmos de machine learning, é alimentada por dados e está transformando o trabalho nos games. Por ser uma tecnologia recente, é importante …
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Factoring in gamer identity : the application of social identity theory and flow to understanding video game violence effects
… and processing of video games between three gamer types: non-gamer, casual gamer, and core gamer. A careful review of previous literature was conducted to explore research involving violent video games, various effects caused by video game play, and how video game research has been utilized …
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The Rise of the Cybercelebrity: Understanding celebrity production and the construction of authenticity on YouTube using YouTube Gamer Mini Ladd
… from the videos they upload. Using YouTube Gamer Mini Ladd as a case study for analysis, this thesis evaluates how the construction of a strong brand image founded on a consistent performance of personal authenticity affects parasocial relationships (Giles, 2002; Rojek, 2016) created with …
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Understanding Online Trolling Exposure's Impact on Purchase Intention: The Case of the Xbox Tax
… – on consumer purchase intentions and how gamer identity level and platform preference influence this relationship. Using a two-phased, quantitative research design, Phase 1 employs a survey of U.S. and U.K.- based video game consumers (N=289) to validate key constructs related to social …
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Videojuegos y currículo: análisis y estrategias para la construcción de la ciudadanía global en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
… personas adolescentes videojugadoras, la cultura gamer y el espacio que se abre en la educación, y en espacial en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria para el uso de los videojuegos orientados a la construcción de la ciudadanía global. La metodología de esta tesis utiliza un enfoque mixto de …
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J4CK MERED34TH
… <p>J4CK MERED34TH follows 19-year-old gamer and hacker Jack Meredith in a near distant future in which virtual reality has been achieved. After a small routine job, someone breaks Jack’s security and steals his identity. This novel seeks to explore the concept of identity and its …
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Gender, sex, and race in the gamespace of live action role play
… to experts on the subjects of identity, play, gamer theory, feminist theory, and critical race theory. I contend in this thesis that games, including live action role play games, are not free from societal oppression, but that interactive games such as live action role play can offer creative …
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Not just in it to win it : inclusive game play in an MIT dorm
… negotiates their identities in relation to the "gamer" stereotype.
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The Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors among Sorority versus Non-Sorority Women
… in conjunction with the Eating Attitudes Test (Gamer & Garfmkle, 1979).</p> <p>The research hypothesis stated that sorority women would demonstrate a higher prevalence of disordered eating behaviors than non-sorority women. Participants were recruited during sorority chapter meetings and class …
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Detecting Learning Styles in Video Games
… able to adapt themselves to the individual gamer. Learning styles are a set of models used to categorize people into different types of learners to explain why some people learn better through different methods. Since learning and exploration are such fundamental parts of the video game …
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Cheating in Multiplayer Video Games
… the globe. Cheating has evolved as well, since gamers no longer have the luxury of monitoring the person sitting next to them; anti-cheating mechanisms are built into most online systems and suspicious behavior is monitored by gaming companies. Most of the current research has surrounded ways in …
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Law enforcement professionalization: the accreditation of law enforcement
… Agencies were asked a series of questions to gamer opinions on professionalism, credibility, accreditation and the importance of these items for law enforcement. The majority of accredited departments observed a rise in citizen support and a decrease in citizen complaints after accreditation. …
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