Assistant Professor Teresa Lynch and PhD Students Annie Dooley and Matt Erxleben publish research showing video game characters with more sex appeal are more disliked. 🎮 comm.osu.edu/news/research-…

Congratulations to Elizabeth Dorrance Hall for winning this year’s Distinguished Journal Article Award! This award is for her 2018 article “Reconsidering Family Closeness: A Review and Call for Research on Family Distancing". doi.org/10.1080/152674…

🚨Job alert🚨 The University of Toronto Mississauga is looking for a tenure-track assistant professor in game studies, to begin July 1 2025. Focus may include game communities, analog games, streaming practices, experimental & avant-garde games, and more. More info 👉jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

Packed house for the first ecrea_eu games session!

Oh cool! Spotted in the wild, Jaime Banks 's PAR model at #ecrea

Grab a coffee or tea and join us for our second session of the day on “Free-to-play and mobile games” (📍FU7). #ECREA2024 #ECREA10

Oh wow ECREA_DGR ! I was today years old when I learned that there is a Google Doodle library: doodles.google/search/ Neat!

Don’t miss our session on “Motivations and emotions” right now! (📍FU7). #ECREA2024 #ECREA10

Some updated ways to look at boredom, via Rowan Daneels at #ecrea2024!

If you'd like our slides on the eudaimonic motivations, they're online at docs.google.com/presentation/d… - included in there? OSF links to our literature search! #ecrea2024

Always fun to represent our team! Slidedeck with links to our notes and analyses, freely available at docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Now at #ECREA2024, Jaime Banks is asking us to recall that "favorite place" in a video game and folks I'm telling you the answer is youtube.com/watch?v=Du15B0…. Don't @ me. =)

A few more from ECREA_DGR - @rdaneels x Jaime Banks

Nick Bowman (包尼克) - bowmanspartan.bsky.social Jaime Banks Ooh, so many spaces to choose from... The first one that comes to mind (and that isn't Super Mario Land 2 on my old Gameboy) is the warp or loading room from Crash Bandicoot 3 #ECREA2024 ECREA_DGR

Nick Bowman (包尼克) - bowmanspartan.bsky.social Jaime Banks

We are 30 days out from the 2024 U.S presidential election. Interested in reading about how polls can affect voters' expectations about election outcomes? Turns out, both polls and prior election results matter! JMPxElections econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/18…

Why can't I find any Mexican news on YouTube? Twitter used to be better with global coverage... but alas... smdh How is Mexico doing with the hurricane? US news is only covering florida....??? I get it but dam