Applying the devotional–promotional model to the video game “Faithful”

Spaulding, Cylor

doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2016.01.004

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“…This practical implication spans beyond religious organizations and institutions. For instance, research suggests that soccer teams, video games, and political organizations encourage religious-like devotion to the team, politician, and game in similar ways that churches encourage devotion to the faith and God (Spaulding, 2016;Tilson & Venkateswaran, 2006;Xifra, 2008). Therefore, if a political organization faced a crisis, but also cultivated relationships with their stakeholders, had a history of trust between the organization and stakeholder, and cultivated the religious-like faith in the organization before the crisis occurred, then it is possible that the organization's stakeholders could respond in a similar way as founding members of Leadership Roundtable.…”

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Stakeholder-Formed Organizations and Crisis Communication: Analyzing Discourse of Renewal with a Non-Offending Organization

Morehouse

2020

JICRCR

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Scholars have examined the ways organizations practice post-crisis communication strategies, including deny, diminish, and rebuild. The current study explores the extent to which a stakeholder-formed organization utilizes post-crisis discourse of renewal to rebuild, recover, and renew the Catholic Church after allegations of sexual abuse of minors publicly surfaced in the United States. Open-ended semi-structured interviews with founders and executive committee members of Leadership Roundtable revealed stakeholders practiced discourse of renewal to help the Catholic Church, an offending organization, recover from a crisis. This study also assessed the extent to which God and religion motivated stakeholders’ responses. Results suggest religion is a critical motivating factor in stakeholders’ responses to a crisis.

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Stakeholder-Formed Organizations and Crisis Communication: Analyzing Discourse of Renewal with a Non-Offending Organization

Morehouse

2020

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“…2. Game developer effect: Core developer of a game can become an object of game fans admiration who motivates players approaching the game (Spaulding, 2016). While famous developers across the industry gets frequent interview requests from media like celebrities in other industry and been adored by peers as successful developer.…”

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“…Convention: Companies take the opportunity to release critical news to galvanize current fan base, attract new players and provide insider information so that players can claim special status. For example, Activision Blizzard has developed a convention for fans called Blizzard con to enhance the brand and allow fans to interact with each other and with developers (Spaulding, 2016). 4.…”

Section: Categorization Of Game Derivative Motivationmentioning

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Investigating deception and the impacts on online game players’ choice in China

ZHAO

Thadani

2021

Global Media and China

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This article aims to present and analyse the relationship between online game companies and players under four types of deceptions in Chinese game market: mechanism imitation, direct rip off, top-up enticement and negative marketing. The main purpose of this article was to understand how deception affects players’ decision and which type of player is ‘sensitive’ when deception happened. There are 356 valid survey results about attitude to deception collected from players on social network. MGPM* model is used as the data analysis method. Analysis revealed that top-up enticement reduces players’ motivation at highest extent. Players motivated by ‘derivative motivation’ are sensitive and more tend to quit game than those motivated by ‘general motivation’. This research indicates if game company figured out player group structure, when facing survival problem, it can adjust operation strategy by adding deceptions with innocuous effect to players’ motivation to cut operational cost. Meanwhile, the research supplied supporting evidence saying leading companies in game industry should adjust its strategy, changing cognition to growth, reducing deception separation among players and operating from the industrial health perspective.

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“…For example, ancient Chinese buildings use more wood than stones not out of technical problem, which indeed belongs to a cultural phenomenon. Personality and motivations for playing online games are very important [7], especially in the video games or online games [8][9][10][11].…”

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Cultural Characteristics of Traditional Architecture and Scenic Architecture in the Online Games

Du¹

2016

HSS

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Through several generations of development and evolution, online games have penetrated into every corner of people's lives and formed a new kind of consumption culture, thus they are likely to be not only required, but essential for the folk's daily life and broaden the horizon and knowledge of the players at the same time. Architecture scene in the online games is an important occasion and environment for the activities and performance of the game characters. Architecture scene includes time, location, and space, and it helps to show the historical background and the geographical environment from multiple perspectives. More importantly, it helps to show the relative architecture culture style and the architecture characteristics of the times. In online games' virtual world, exquisite architecture scene can not only set off the competition atmosphere, bring the players into the games' plot quickly, but also make the cultural connotation and the cultural emotion that the makers want to convey in the games sensed visually by the players. Online games should be treated rationally, because it is not only a media of entertainment but also a media of cultural transmission. With the emergence and popularity of many online games based on Chinese stories, we should pay more attention to the function of transmission of the online games.

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Applying the devotional–promotional model to the video game “Faithful”

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Stakeholder-Formed Organizations and Crisis Communication: Analyzing Discourse of Renewal with a Non-Offending Organization

Stakeholder-Formed Organizations and Crisis Communication: Analyzing Discourse of Renewal with a Non-Offending Organization

Investigating deception and the impacts on online game players’ choice in China

Cultural Characteristics of Traditional Architecture and Scenic Architecture in the Online Games

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