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Gaming: A Battle Over Anorexia In World of Warcraft

June 6, 2014 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

June 7, 2014 This coming week I’m attending the colossal gaming #Gsummit in S.F., a four-figure fee fandango (won in a drawing) that I’m eagerly sweeping my slate for in order to learn from ‘the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: #Gsummit2014, Addicting-Games, adolescent body image, anorexia, behavior change, Bigorexia, boys body image, cognitive science, crisis text line, Erik Martin, Erik N. Martin, game addiction, game based learning, gamification, gaming for good, GSummit, Inspire Foundation, kids mental health, male eating disorders, MIT Vanished Game, MMORPGs, MMOs, nature deficit, NEDA, PersonalZen, Persuasion-Technology-Lab, ReliefLink, SuperBetter, teen depression, therapeutic benefit, video games get kids hooked, videogames, Virtual Reality, Workout App, World-of-Warcraft, WoW, WoW as therapeutic tool, YthLive

Virtual-to-Real World Play Patterns; Sims Used For Solutions?

July 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Shaping Youth Correspondent Sara Grimes (at left) our hands-on research pro in the gaming arena and a smart as a whip academic to boot, (here's scholarly Sara at ACT Lab) has helped us ALL by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: BJ-Fogg, Bob-McGinley, Club-Penguin, Club-THE-Penguin, Disney-VizWoz, Game-Simulations, HopeLab, Izzy-Neis, MMORPGs, Persuasion-Technology-Lab, Play-Patterns-Kids, Researching-the-researchers, Sara-M.-Grimes, Terra-Nova, TIA, Virtual-Peace-.org, Virtual-to-real-world-play-patterns, Virtual-World-News, Virtual-Worlds, Virtual-Worlds-Kids, VizWoz, VWN