Morality and involvement in social virtual worlds: The intensity of moral emotions in response to virtual versus real life cheating

Gabriels, Katleen; Poels, Karolien; Braeckman, Johan

doi:10.1177/1461444813487957

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“…Hybridization means that virtual and actual forms of social, moral, and cultural life mutually influence each other. Although virtual activities and interactions do not physically occur in the actual world, they are interacting with it (Gabriels, Poels and Braeckman, 2014). Hybridization affects the way people make sense of their virtual identities: they do not start their in-world lives from a 'blank slate', as they are always rooted in autobiographical, social, moral, and cultural contexts.…”

Section: Acknowledging Hybridization: the Interplay Of The Virtual Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual gossip: How gossip regulates moral life in virtual worlds

Gabriels

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2016

Computers in Human Behavior

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a b s t r a c tThis article explores to what extent the functions of interpersonal offline gossip can be mapped on to the virtual community of Second Life and its subsequent in-world and out-world interactions. A long-term hybrid ethnographic study was conducted that involved recurrent actual and virtual meetings with informants. The main objectives are, first, to look for similarities and to explain dissimilarities and, second, to gain some much-needed insight into how moral life is structured in social virtual communities and how important the role of gossip is. Results show overlaps between online and offline gossip concerning uses and functions. Gossip is important as a means for reputation management; as a cultural learning system; as a sanctioning system; and as entertainment. Just as in traditional offline communities, gossip is a central mechanism to regulate virtual moral life that stretches out to blogs, websites, and face-to-face meetings. Yet, technology amplifies the effects by creating new possibilities such as logging the evidence in order to spot cheaters. This way, in-world gossip becomes an inflated form of traditional gossip.

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Section: Acknowledging Hybridization: the Interplay Of The Virtual Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual gossip: How gossip regulates moral life in virtual worlds

Gabriels

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2016

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Players feel psychologically connected to their avatar and react with guilt and shame when their player character behaves immorally (Grizzard et al 2014;Hartmann, Toz, and Brandon 2010;Mahood and Hanus 2017). Players also express distress when their character is the victim of morally reprehensible acts (Gabriels, Poels, and Braeckman 2014;Wolfendale 2007). In an iconic case from 1992, a woman reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress after her online avatar had been sexually assaulted at LambdaMOO, a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple players are connected simultaneously (Dibbell 1993).…”

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Design Bioethics: A Theoretical Framework and Argument for Innovation in Bioethics Research

Pavarini

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Robinson

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The American Journal of Bioethics

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Empirical research in bioethics has developed rapidly over the past decade, but has largely eschewed the use of technology-driven methodologies. We propose "design bioethics" as an area of conjoined theoretical and methodological innovation in the field, working across bioethics, health sciences and human-centred technological design. We demonstrate the potential of digital tools, particularly purpose-built digital games, to align with theoretical frameworks in bioethics for empirical research, integrating context, narrative and embodiment in moral decision-making. Purpose-built digital tools can engender situated engagement with bioethical questions; can achieve such engagement at scale; and can access groups traditionally under-represented in bioethics research and theory. If developed and used with appropriate rigor, tools motivated by "design bioethics" could offer unique insights into new and familiar normative and empirical issues in the field.

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“…Even though the digital sphere lacks a significant part of communication content, the mediated communication causes emotions as powerful as non-mediated communication does, as proven by the Media Equation theory (Gabriels et al, 2014). Emotional events connect the participants with the audience, creating a "synchronized and hyper-realist collective hallucination" (Garde-Hansen, Gorton, 2013:2).…”

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MAX share this! Vote for us! Analysis of pre-election Facebook communication and audience reactions of Latvia’s populist party KPV LV leader Aldis Gobzems

Rožukalne

2020

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This article analyses the communication content by the Latvian populistic party KPV LV (LETA; Re: Baltica) and the audience’s reaction, with a focus on the daily updates and live videos that were posted on Facebook (FB) prior to the 13th elections of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia). The aim of the research is to determine the type of populism that KPV LV employed (de Wreese, 2018). The research data was collected during the pre-election period in August – September 2018, when the popularity and social media activity of the party increased. The methods employed were qualitative and quantitative content analysis. In order to identify the structure of emotions expressed in audience-created content, the online data analysis tool “Emotion Recognition Model” was used. Given that populist ideology manifests itself in specific discursive patterns (Kriesi, Papas, 2015), the data interpretation was based on theoretical findings about populism as a political communication style (Jagers, Walgrave, 2007). In order to analyze the interrelations between populist communication and its audience, this study employed theoretical literature on social media use in populist communication and on expressions of emotions in social networking sites.

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Morality and involvement in social virtual worlds: The intensity of moral emotions in response to virtual versus real life cheating

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Virtual gossip: How gossip regulates moral life in virtual worlds

Virtual gossip: How gossip regulates moral life in virtual worlds

Design Bioethics: A Theoretical Framework and Argument for Innovation in Bioethics Research

MAX share this! Vote for us! Analysis of pre-election Facebook communication and audience reactions of Latvia’s populist party KPV LV leader Aldis Gobzems

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