Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Racial representation and gaming
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 ...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Jayne Gackenbach PhD
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Video games. Sometimes demonized, always compelling – and wildly popular, video games have become ingrained as part of our society. Yet it is still largely unknown how these games affect the minds of those who play. Find out the truth, the questions, the research – and what we don’t about this highly controversial part of our society and what they may mean for both the future and for our dreams.
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Violence and Video Game Play Revisited
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 th...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Family Life and Video Game Play
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, S...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Problem Video Game Play and Genre
Luther Elliott, of the Institute for Special Populations Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY, and I talked about his ...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video Games Let You Be All You Can Be
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 De...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – What is a gamer identity or gamer culture?
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 ...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video game technology supporting the elderly
On this show I chat with Hannah Marston who coauthored an article “Interactive Videogame Technologies to Support Independence in the Elderly” which wa...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Women in Gaming
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 Commu...
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Culture-jamming activists in video games
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....
Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – A senior artists view of computers
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...