Games Beyond the Screen

Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch018 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 377-396 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William Zachary Wood

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Western Countries ◽

Game Designer

This chapter introduces a phenomenon that has gone largely unaddressed in research since its emergence in western countries in the last decade: festivals of games and play. The bulk of the chapter is drawn from interviews with people involved in these festivals, including founders, current organizers and game designers, using this data to build on the work of researchers on play and playfulness. Taking an autoethnographic stance, the author speaks from personal experience as a participant and game designer in order to convey these festivals' unique qualities and potential as sites for public play.

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Coping accountably in a dangerous world

Health Economics Policy and Law ◽

10.1017/s1744133107004240 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 449-455

Author(s):

DAVID CHINITZ

Keyword(s):

Health Policy ◽

Health System ◽

Organizational Theory ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Western Countries ◽

Policy Evolution ◽

The World ◽

Dangerous Place ◽

Systematic Framework

The world is a dangerous place, and so is the health system; hospitals in particular.This was not self evident to this author before observing 20 years of health policy evolution in Western countries, together with some personal experience. This perspective is furthered by the two volumes reviewed here. In the view of this author, health policy is moving beyond, or at least supplementing, the structure and process emphasis, provided mainly by economists, but with under-girding from other disciplines, that has dominated during the last two decades. The new focus in health policy is not only on quality, but on what to do when quality breaks down and we cannot rely, however much we desire, on a clear systematic framework of standards, incentives, regulations, and controls (Chinitz, 2002). How do we go forward in a realm where the stakes are so high? While not providing all the answers, the two volumes examined by this essay certainly lay out the dilemmas and provide some realistic propositions, for moving forward in health policy and management. And, not surprisingly, economics loses its pre-eminence to other disciplines, especially law, organizational theory, and management.

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Accentuating Your Masculine Side

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000144 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 103-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Chongzeng Bi ◽

Oscar Ybarra ◽

Yufang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Gender Role ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Western Countries ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Two Samples ◽

Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

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