Video games, frustration, violence, and virtual reality: Two studies

Ferguson, Christopher J.; Gryshyna, Anastasiia; Kim, Jung Soo; Knowles, Emma; Nadeem, Zainab; Cardozo, Izabela; Esser, Carolin; Trebbi, Victoria; Willis, Emily

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“…This has been confirmed in some studies that have found a correlation with violent gameplay and cognitive aggression, particularly in an environment with greater presence or immersion (American Psychological Association [APA], 2020; Anderson et al, 2010;Lull & Bushman, 2016). On the other hand, other studies show that the link between violent VR video games and aggression (cognition and behavior) is inconclusive (Drummond et al, 2021;Ferguson et al, 2021). However, as Haam and Spaaj (2015) have determined, the pathway to violent extremism is multifaceted, and it involves conveying personal and political grievances to supportive online networks and being enabled by charismatic extremists; therefore, these studies may not be viable in the context of the metaverse and its features.…”

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Malevolent Creativity & the Metaverse

Bajwa

2022

JICW

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The innovation of the Metaverse heralds a new milestone in the Information Age as investors move forward with the plan to bring the metaverse to fruition. The metaverse will offer a heightened experience in terms of interactivity, economics, and platform, while paving the way for greater immersion through virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. It is likely that as the metaverse develops, gaming will offer a unique social experience through its features such as virtual worlds. Based on this, it is important for policymakers to look at extremist subcultures that will operate in the metaverse through these virtual features. Due to the role played by fringe subcultures in facilitating the recent mass shooting event in Buffalo, this article aimed to examine the main features of the metaverse and how its immersive properties could influence the creation of future metaversal subcultures that could act as a gateway towards future mass shooting incidents. To that end, it applied the model of malevolent creativity to the extremist use of online spaces to gain insight on how such properties could aid online extremists towards mobilization. Results show that the concatenation of malevolent creativity, innovation, and subcultural extremism may bridge the gap between ideation of mass shootings and mobilization. Based on this, the implication of this research suggests that tech entrepreneurs for the metaverse should be mindful of the risks that disconnection from the real-world society can create for young, isolated users and aim to implement safeguards in integral areas of the metaverse seven-layer chain, such as spatial computing, discovery, and the creator economy.

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Malevolent Creativity & the Metaverse

Bajwa

2022

JICW

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“…More subsectors will probably emerge from this sector, but others will also start to use its knowledge more widely. The recent years (2020-2022) of the COVID-19 pandemic and the hybrid wars have meant that solutions are already being implemented more widely: the use of games in education processes (Haberlin and Atkin, 2022), the possibilities of new areas of behaviour analysis (Ferguson et al, 2022;Scolari, Pires, andMasanet, 2022), reality andvirtual design (Reer, Wehden, Janzik, Tang, andQuandt, 2022), development of cybersecurity (Khan, Merabet, Alkaabi, and El-Sayed, 2022), and others. Research on the directions of diffusion of knowledge from this sector is indeed the future of many areas of science.…”

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Strategy Approaches in the Video Game Industry. The Case Study of South Korea, the USA and Poland

Niemczyk¹,

Borowski²,

Nobel³

2022

Informatyka Ekonomiczna

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The problem of interested in these studies was to identify the approaches to strategies that dominate the gaming sector in the USA, Korea and Poland. Solving this problem is the main goal of the research, the results of which are presented in this article. The cognitive aim is to broaden the knowledge of approaches to strategy in new sectors, such as gaming, at various stages of its development. The methodological aim is to check the usefulness of the approach and the analysis based on the principle of the so-called "grey intelligence". The utilitarian aim is to indicate the directions of development of companies in this sector based on the theoretical projections of the strategy. The research was conducted in Q1 2022, and the result is a description of the dominant strategies in the gaming sector. The originality value of this research is to use theoretical approaches to strategy to identify strategies in new sectors and to verify the utility of these approaches.

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“…El fenómeno de los videojuegos es objeto de debate actual en la literatura académica (Ferguson, 2020;Ferguson et al, 2021). Investigaciones efectuadas a inicios del nuevo milenio han contemplado que el contenido y jugabilidad de los primeros videojuegos promovían estereotipos sociales y poseían cierta tendencia hacia la violencia.…”

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Videojuegos y empatía. Del contenido violento a la actitud empática

Orozco Marín,

Villavicencio-Aguilar,

Rojas-Preciado

2024

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Artículo de Resultados. Objetivo: Comprender la relación entre el uso de videojuegos violentos y la disposición empática en la adolescencia. Método: Enfoque cuantitativo de diseño no experimental, de corte transversal y de alcance descriptivo-correlacional. La recolección de datos se llevó a cabo a través de un cuestionario ad hoc para explorar los factores que componen al uso de videojuegos (α=0.951), y el Índice de Reactividad Interpersonal para evaluar las cuatro dimensiones de empatía (α=0,745). La muestra quedó conformada por n=400 adolescentes de 12 a 18 años de edad, 55,2% hombres y 44,8% mujeres. Se utilizó un muestro probabilístico simple. Resultados: La prueba H de Kruskal-Wallis determinó que el uso de videojuegos excesivamente violentos (+18; p-valor= 0,001) es un factor que varía los niveles de una dimensión de la empatía (Malestar Personal, MP), siendo mayor en quiénes actualmente juegan estos juegos. Discusiones: MP es un constructo que se relaciona negativamente con el comportamiento prosocial y el altruismo, y positivamente con una tendencia a evitar a las personas que están pasando por situaciones adversas. Considerando lo anterior, los adolescentes que disfrutan de videojuegos +18 son quiénes presentan una menor disposición empática, siendo congruente con investigaciones, donde se encontró que el uso de videojuegos violentos (UVV) redujo los niveles de empatía en niños y adolescentes, disminución que predijo una mayor frecuencia de conductas violentas. Así mismo, estudios regionales sugieren que el UVV aumenta los niveles de ira y agresividad, a la par que reduce la empatía.

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Video games, frustration, violence, and virtual reality: Two studies

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Malevolent Creativity & the Metaverse

Malevolent Creativity & the Metaverse

Strategy Approaches in the Video Game Industry. The Case Study of South Korea, the USA and Poland

Videojuegos y empatía. Del contenido violento a la actitud empática

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