Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? Archives - WebTalkRadio.net

My interviewee this time is André Brock from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His recent article in Games and Culture called ‘‘When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong: Resident Evil 5, Racial Representation, and Gamers” was the topic of our conversation. Brock writes that, “videogames’ ability to depict cultural […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Racial representation and gaming appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

We revisit the question of video game play and subsequent violence in my interview with James Ivory. He writes that “much of my research focuses on the content and effects of new entertainment media such as video games. At Virginia Tech, I founded the VT G.A.M.E.R. Lab (Virginia Tech Gaming and Media Effects Research Laboratory), […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Violence and Video Game Play Revisited appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This time I spoke with Pål Aarsand who has a PhD in Child Studies and works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interest is in young people’s use of digital technology in their everyday lives. He has focused on game/play, identities, the parent-child relation and digital competences. […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Family Life and Video Game Play appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Luther Elliott, of the Institute for Special Populations Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY, and I talked about his work on how video game genre might be a predictor of problem use. In an article published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, he and his coauthors explored this new way of viewing […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Problem Video Game Play and Genre appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Andrew Przybylski and I chatted this time about how ones sense of ideal self can be encouraged with the play of video games. Przybylski is with the Department of Psychology, University of Essex, United Kingdom. He and his coauthors recently published a study in Psychological Science, the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology, exploring these […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video Games Let You Be All You Can Be appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This time I spoke with Adreine Shaw who is at Temple University . We talked about her research into video game identity and culture. This came out in an article in Games and Culture and has been the most downloaded and read article in the journal in the last few years. The article, “What is Video […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – What is a gamer identity or gamer culture? appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

On this show I chat with Hannah Marston who coauthored an article “Interactive Videogame Technologies to Support Independence in the Elderly” which was recently published in the Games for Health Journal. Dr. Marston is with the Institute of Sport Gerontology, German Sport University Cologne. She writes about her work that, “in recent years the use […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video game technology supporting the elderly appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

The author of “Getting Women in the Game”, Shira Chess is the focus of my interview this time. She is a visiting professor at Department of Mass Communication, Miami University, Ohio. Her article appeared in the National Communication Associations journal, Communication Currents. Her article “analyzes the advertising strategy use to market video games to women. […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Women in Gaming appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This show is a conversation with Dr. Roger Stahl who is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. Dr. Stahl has just produced a film about how political activism is occurring inside video games. His film, Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture, he points out that, “Video […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Culture-jamming activists in video games appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

In this show we are chatting with Fiammetta Rubin of the Naturopathic Educational Services in Philadelphia, PA. This interview is a bit of a departure from the video game theme of this show. It’s about how a lifelong artist found computers and incorporated computers into her art. She explains that her “digital prints are produced […] The post Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – A senior artists view of computers appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.