“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal level research with no harm to humans, large numbers of experiments and participants, and make long… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“Since the boom days of World of War-craft and Second Life, there has been a strange, stagnant lull in terms of virtual worlds. I think gamers and academics have kept wondering what would come next in either the online gaming… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that lead to… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This… — Nick Yee Copy Share
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17” — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.” — Nick Yee Copy Share
“As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference[s]” between male and female gamers.… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on by gendered… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how… — Nick Yee Copy Share
