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What Personality Says About Virtual Game Play Motives

Interactive media & Gaming

The Potential of ‘Exergames’

Videogames that are also a form of exercise, the so called ‘exergames’, offer new possibilities to improve children’s physical health. Question is, how successful are they?

How Breakfast Cereal Manufacturers Use the Internet to Target Children

The Internet is more and more used by food companies as a marketing tool to target children. A Journal of Health Communication study tried to map the different techniques...

Parents’ Media Use Affects Media Taste for Life

Media have become an important leisure time activity. However, everyone has a different kind of media source and content they like. Some prefer watching films and series and others enjoy reading

Using Computers for non-Academic Activities Leads to Better School Grades

Teens’ recreational computer use is often portrayed in the media as having a negative influence on students’ school grades. However, the research literature shows opposite results.

Mobile Educational Games: Much More Fun and Just as Effective as Traditional Board Games

Educational game apps pop up like daisies in Google’s Play and Apple’s App Store. The question is, are mobile educational games just as successful in transmitting knowledge...

Recreational Computer Use Improves Teens’ Computer Skills

28 February 2013

Playing computer games and using social networking sites have become important leisure time activities for teens. Although critics blame this recreational computer use for...

Why Students Play Social Network Games – or Not

22 January 2013

As the use of Social Network Sites is growing, so is the popularity of Social Network Games: online games that can only be played by social network site users. In a study in Cyberpsychology

Do New Media Technologies Cause Poor Reading Habits?

08 January 2013

Many are concerned that new media technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have a bad influence on children’s school performances. Others claim new media might have a positive impact.

iPreschooler: The Possibilities of Digital Play

29 October 2012

Tablet apps for preschoolers are getting more and more popular. Most parents embrace digital play tools and value their educational potential. According to a study in e-journal He Kupu, however,...