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Beyond pleasurable and meaningful: Psychologically rich entertainment experiences by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social Ulusoy & @morganellithorpe.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Daily Evaluation Threat and Instability in the Ability Self-Concept Among Stereotype-Aware Women by Meinderts, Veldman & Laar Related: How female gamers feel about their gaming abilities when they are often evaluated by their peers? This study provides clues doi.org/10.1111/jasp...

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@rijksmuseum.bsky.social peering through the American exhibition

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Hunter Schafer was ‘shocked’ that her new passport lists her gender as male, following President Donald Trump’s new gender policies. ‘I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration,’ she said.

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Hate speech and hate-based harassment in online games co-authored by @c0nstances.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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videogames-observatory.eu/en/2025/02/1...

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Corporate needs you to find the differences between this video and... youtu.be/Eb3ESfqvWgY?...

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This is making the rounds among my social media friends, and since we are mostly scholars and teachers from the humanities and social sciences, the response is mostly "Yeah." gizmodo.com/microsoft-st...

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#LootBoxes are reintroduced back into @PlayOverwatch. More of them are obtainable if you pay for the premium battle pass, so that is a PAID loot box. That makes two games that removed loot boxes and then put them back in. The other is @BrawlStars. 🙃 youtu.be/Cf5dPQ7YeE8?...

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PSA for academic researchers: Now is a good time to consider who has access to--and who is in control of--your research files. We must do what we can to protect participant information and science more broadly from bad actors and interference. #AcademicSky #commsky

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The damage Kotick to Blizzard is far beyond what anyone could imagine. Nothing about the allegations were "faked". The environment was toxic everywhere, and not just precious Irvine HQ, and the C-suite let it run its course and enable it for years

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Glad to have good trust and safety news: “It’s called ROOST from Google, OpenAI, Discord, Roblox and others. It’s a bid to revolutionize trust and safety with open-source tools. The commitments it has received from platforms suggest that it could well succeed. “ www.platformer.news/roost-open-s...

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"Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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One thing that regularly shocks me about the video game industry is hearing how much time and money is wasted because executives are unwilling or unable to make a decision and communicate it clearly. Anyway, don't miss my feature about the turmoil at Warner Games: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A fine case study for corporate communication

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There's no way to sugarcoat this: Yesterday was the single-worst day in American history in the fight against both kleptocracy and foreign influence campaigns. This is for many reasons—and for one large reason. bsky.app/profile/cjcm...

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Reminder: Gamergate was 10 years ago and it still matters. We're seeing the first group of people who were tweens and teens when it began - the kids who grew up with toxic gaming spaces being normalized and celebrated. Now they're awful "adults" working for a fascist regime.

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The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States by Neuhaus & O'Connor www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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new Alt-Right Playbook is live! DOUBLEWRONG - a collaboration with @theabigailthorn.bsky.social, wherein we talk about how people can be rhetorically STRONGER by being wrong on two fronts instead of one, through the lens of trans healthcare. youtu.be/IqeFeqInoXc

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Malicious compliance is a form of resistance ✊🏽

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Acts of political violence are committed, they should be responded likewise to an authoritarian government

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U.S. agencies are being bulldozed tonight and media is not covering this dangerous authoritarian shit. I understand there was another plane crash and am praying for everyone but please make time for the overthrow of our institutions

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Of relevance to @jessiegender.bsky.social and to parts of her Section 31 video youtu.be/1pMFJ37T08E?...?

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Preferences for facial femininity/masculinity across culture and the sexual orientation spectrum by Bjornsdottir, Holzleitner & Ishii psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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NEW PUB 🚨 Tijdschrift voor CW recently published an overview article [in Dutch] which summarizes my doctoral research on eudaimonic game experiences and motives in just 22 pages (compared to the 450+ pages long dissertation). It's available in open access through www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership by Gordon Kuo Siong Tan case study on Axie Infinity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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So excited to see this in print! A manifesto paving the way for responsible generalisation and co-authorship practices in open science - with an incredible team of scholars! Very much inspired by the benchmark Munafò et al. manifesto for reproducible science www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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TikTok's recommendations skewed towards Republican content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831

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Navigating toxic playgrounds: Managing reputational and financial brand safety in multiplayer video games by Bernritter et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A fantastic write-up of @amperjay.bsky.social's research and scholarship into AI and companionship, in her position here at Syracuse's iSchool: www.syracuse.edu/stories/ai-a...

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“They’re a Girl So Don’t Expect Too Much”: The Marginalisation of Women in Esports Videogames by Lee & Lee doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

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This is my Watergate wapo.st/4aBla0g

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My article "Sex as Reward in Games" can be found among great company in the recently published Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Games Studies by Bloomsbury. You can find more details and buy the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur... (if you're interested in reading my article dm me).

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A thoughtful, considered article on screens and “brain rot”:

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A rare but welcome evidence-based and nuanced exploration of tech panic - no, your smartphone/laptop is not making you stupid or 're-wiring your brain' despite endless subjective handwringing from frightened elite non-techies www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Hi Bluesky! Are you a) transfeminine and b) someone who’s experienced an attack in an online community that isolated you from that community? If so, I would love to speak to you; @michaelann.bsky.social and I are working on a project to better understand these attacks.

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NEW: OPM — the US govt's HR department — is now being run exclusively by Big Tech lackies, mostly from Elon Musk companies. Reporting directly to the chief of staff is a kid who just graduated high school & was recently a camp counsellor before interning at Neuralink. From @telliotter.bsky.social:

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