This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of the medium as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video games. The diverse array of contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.
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| Series Editor's Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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1 The Demanding Nature of Video Game Play |
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2 Video Games and Cognitive Skills |
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3 The Role of Engagement in Facilitating Games-Based Persuasion |
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4 Research on the Emotions Caused by Video Games Demands Integration |
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5 Gaming Is Awesome! A Theoretical Model on Cognitive Demands and the Elicitation of Awe during Video Game Play |
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6 Behavioral Demands as Behavioral Affordances in Video Games |
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7 Applying Psychological Theory to In-Game Moral Behaviors Through the Development of a Purpose-Made Game |
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8 A Communication Model of Social Demands in Video Games |
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9 Tandem Play: Theorizing Sociality in Single-Player Gameplay |
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10 Social Demand in Video Games and the Synchronization Theory of Flow |
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11 Explicating the Electricity of eSports: Motivations for Play and Consumption |
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12 Live Streams and Revenue Streams: Twitch as a Hybrid Gaming Culture |
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13 Development of the Video Game Demand Scale |
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| Appendix A |
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| Appendix B |
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Nicholas David Bowman (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University, where he founded and directs the Interaction Lab (#ixlab). His work considers the intersection of communication technology and human interaction, and the manner in which mediated communication places a variety of different demands on users. He has authored or co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters related to these issues, and his work has been recognized by regional, national, and international associations. He is the current editor of Communication Research Reports and is an associate editor of Journal of Media Psychology, and he serves on a number of editorial boards, external review panels, and grant committees.
