“I Can be Who I Am When I Play Tekken 7”: E-sports Women Participants from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 155541202110053
Author(s):  
Umer Hussain ◽  
Bo Yu ◽  
George B. Cunningham ◽  
Gregg Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
Depth Interviews

Extant research on e-sports has focused on the growth and value of the phenomenon, fandom, and participant experiences. However, there is a paucity of e-sports scholarship detailing women’s experiences from marginalized communities living in various conservative Muslim countries. This shortage of literature remains despite different radical Islamic groups’ consistent demand for banning several online video games and the Muslim youth’s resistance to these calls. This study aimed to understand the motives and lived experiences of Muslim women e-sports participants from Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The authors collected data via observations of online video games and in-depth interviews. The study participants revealed that they use e-sports as a vehicle for an oppositional agency and personal freedom from the patriarchal system. The findings also suggest that participants are facing systematic marginalization and grave intrusion of post-colonization. The study contributes to the limited scholarship concerning Indian subcontinent Muslim women’s e-sports participation.

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Video Game Consumption in Turkey

2022 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Yasemin Özkent
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Leisure Education ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Video Games

Different precautions such as quarantine, social distance, and hygiene applications have been taken around the world to prevent the spreading of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. While these precautions brought many sectors to a halt, digital-based platforms have been used more actively. The pandemic changed daily work, leisure, education, and the time spent with families and how people distribute their time on these items. The interest toward digital games increased as the result of COVID-19 quarantine. As people spent more time at home, they tended to play games to socialize. This study aims to evaluate the changes and tendencies in the consumption of video games during the pandemic period in Turkey. Accordingly, the consumption of online video games in 2020 was analyzed through comparing with 2019. As a result, it was detected that more time and money was spent during the pandemic period on the digital game sector which was also important before.

scholarly journals What matters is when you play: Investigating the relationship between online video games addiction and time spent playing over specific day phases

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Triberti ◽  
Luca Milani ◽  
Daniela Villani ◽  
Serena Grumi ◽  
Sara Peracchia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
What Matters

scholarly journals Causes and Effects of Online Video Game Playing among Junior-Senior High School Students in Malang East Java

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
I Dewa Putu Eskasasnanda
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
Senior High School Students

Science and technology development causes a lot of changes in any fields including the form of popular games among the Junior and Senior High School students in Indonesia.The traditional games that are famous formerly have been replaced by the modern games like online video game.This article discusses the cause and effect of the online video game playing on the Junior and Senior High Schools students in Malang.This study reveal that students play video games online due to peers pressure; and online video games are liked because they are considered more modern, practical, realistic and varied. Initially, students play online video games to relieve the fatigue due to studying at school, but subsequently, they are becoming addicted, and reach a condition that they find it difficult to stop playing games.This condition will directly affect their achievement in school.

Stress System Response and Decision Making in Heavy Episodic Users of Alcohol and Online Video Games

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 1875-1885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Gilbertson ◽  
Dustyn J. Leff ◽  
Nathan A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Video Games ◽  
System Response ◽  
Stress System ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Online Video Games

Social Media and Online Gaming

2018 ◽  
pp. 220-239
Author(s):  
Pedro Ramos ◽  
Pierre Funderburk ◽  
Jennifer Gebelein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Video Game Consoles ◽  
Online Video Games

This article describes how the rise in technological innovation has allowed for transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) to expand their operations using virtual platforms such as social media and online video games. These virtual platforms are utilized by TCOs to conduct some of their traditional forms of crimes, such a money laundering. These criminal practices have found solace in technological innovation, mainly through the exploitation of rising technologies, such as online video games, video game consoles and peripherals, such as Virtual Reality headsets, inconspicuous electronic devices for children, Near-Field Communication (NFC), and finally, social media as tool for recruitment and immediate communication. TCOs have managed to utilize these mediums to conduct their criminal activities in part due to the lack or nonexistence of new or proper legislation that regulates how these new mediums can function without facilitating illicit activities and the germination of illicit markets.

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