Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? Archives - WebTalkRadio.net

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? Archives - WebTalkRadio.net

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April 15, 2013 23 mins

My interviewee this time is André Brock from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa....

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We revisit the question of video game play and subsequent violence in my interview with James Ivory. He writes that...

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This time I spoke with Pål Aarsand who has a PhD in Child Studies and works as a senior lecturer...

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Luther Elliott, of the Institute for Special Populations Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY, and I talked...

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Andrew Przybylski and I chatted this time about how ones sense of ideal self can be encouraged with the play...

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This time I spoke with Adreine Shaw who is at Temple University . We talked about her research into video game...

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On this show I chat with Hannah Marston who coauthored an article “Interactive Videogame Technologies to Support Independence in the...

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The author of “Getting Women in the Game”, Shira Chess is the focus of my interview this time. She is...

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This show is a conversation with Dr. Roger Stahl who is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies...

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In this show we are chatting with Fiammetta Rubin of the Naturopathic Educational Services in Philadelphia, PA. This interview is...

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In this show we will be discussing the borders between virtual and real. My guest is Dr. Greg Garvey who...

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Denise Doyle, of the School of Art and Design at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom is my...

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This week we’ll be discussing the relationship between the visual arts and gaming. Here I do not mean the graphic...

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Dr. William Gibbons, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University, chats with me about the role of music in...

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Our interview is with Chris Hewett, Founder & Executive Producer of a new social media and self-development tool, Mindbloom. A...

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This interview is with Garth Chouteau who oversees all surveys and research related to the health benefits of video games...

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This is Dr. Jayne Gackenbach and this week on Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? we’ll be discussing avatars. What...

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This time we will be talking with the editor of a new journal devoted to games for health, Bill Ferguson....

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In this show we’ll be talking about various perceptual and cognitive advantages to gaming. Dr. Walter Boot is the director...

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In this show the use of games in the military is explored. In a recent study in the journal, Military...

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