Intergroup contact, contact heterogeneity, and cross-group friendship: evidence from a global prosocial mobile game Abstract. Video games serve as virtual spaces where members from different social groups encounter each other and interact. This study (N = 3,612) tests in

🎉Check our latest JCMC paper on intergroup contact where we combined survey measures and in-game behavioral data from over 3,600 Sky players!

Intergroup contact, contact heterogeneity, and cross-group friendship: evidence from a global prosocial mobile game url: academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The day when all academics realised that their publications had been used for something ... it turned out Meta used them to train their AI models...

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Digital Games at the Forefront of Change: On the Meaningfulness of Games and Game Studies Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)

How can video games teach us something meaningful?

Our new open access issue explores how games function as cultural artifacts, social environments, and learning tools, examining their impact on identity, society, and the media landscape.

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Check out our latest cross-national study on Gen Z mobile gamers' experiences!

#NCA24 Testing the penetration rate of Bluesky among comm scholars...if you are going to NOLA for NCA, please stop by at 2:30 PM on Nov 11 for my talk on platform diversity strategy by AAPI nonprofit organizations! More happy to connect with old and new friends 🙌