Video games playing: A substitute for cultural consumptions?

Borowiecki, Karol Jan; Prieto‐Rodríguez, Juan

doi:10.1007/s10824-014-9229-y

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“…The study also shows that males typically score higher on the achievement component versus females, who tend to score higher on the social component. However, the relative focus on achievement is also found to decline significantly with age, with the probability of playing video games decreasing with age at a diminishing rate (Borowiecki & Prieto‐Rodriguez, ). The same authors also find that a typical video game player is a young male who lives in an urban area and has access to new technologies.…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A duration model analysis of consumer preferences and determinants of video game consumption

Kaimann¹,

Stroh-Maraun²,

Cox

2018

J of Consumer Behaviour

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Despite the enormous revenues generated by the video game industry in recent years, relatively little research has been undertaken into consumer preferences and the determinants of video game consumption. This study addresses this deficiency through the analysis of data from a popular online video game that includes historic behavioural information for 1,408 consumers participating in 728,811 unique rounds of gameplay. We analyse these data with the goal of estimating determinants of the aggregate amount of time that a consumer spends playing the game. Through the estimation of duration models, we show that less experienced consumers are less likely to continue playing the game at any given point, possibly due to having achieved mastery and becoming bored. However, we also find that consumers tend to play the game for longer periods when using a wider range of character roles and vehicles, implying that a consumer's interest can be maintained through exposure to greater variety. Our results represent the first such evidence on in‐game consumer preferences, which has important implications for video game consumption through optimisation of gameplay experiences to satisfy these preferences.

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Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A duration model analysis of consumer preferences and determinants of video game consumption

Kaimann¹,

Stroh-Maraun²,

Cox

2018

J of Consumer Behaviour

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“…So, the vast majority of observations (93.6%) take value 0 in the dependent variable (job search area). This justifies the use of a Zero-Inflated Ordered Probit (ZIOP) to estimate the model (see, Harris andZhao, 2007 andBorowiecki andPrieto, 2015, for a detailed technical description of the ZIOP model). This model accounts for the overrepresentations of zeros and provides two different equations.…”

Section: Estimations and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Foreign Language Skills and Willingness to Move: The Case of a Spanish Region

Gutiérrez

Canal‐Domínguez

2016

International Migration

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This research is aimed at assessing the effect of foreign language skills on the geographical area selected by the Spanish unemployed when looking for a job. A Zero‐Inflated Ordered Probit (ZIOP) model has been estimated to analyse the impact of foreign language skills on the geographical scope of the search. The outcomes show that the job search area is broader in case of men, young unemployed, more educated people, and those who never received unemployment benefits. Likewise, foreign language skills (in English, German and French) are highlighted as one of the most influencing factors when widening the job search area.

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“…The reason why game playing frequency decrease with age is dependent on a range of determinants. Borowiecki and Prieto-Rodriguez (2014) investigates video game playing as a cultural consumption like other art activities by taking into account socioeconomic variables as well as demographic and geographic factors. They divide gamers into two groups: those who never play and those who are likely to play, adding that they are both 'heterogeneous populations'.…”

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The Museum of Gamers: Unmediated Cultural Heritage Through Gaming

Aydin

Schnabel

2016

Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

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In the 1990s when Nicholas Negroponte published his infamous comparison between bits and atoms for Wired magazine, it was no longer strange to talk about a new concept for galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). Pointing to a new future for libraries, Negroponte was already aware that being digital had its own reality, which was to create ambiguity in relation to the value of physicality or pure materiality, a reality that the world had been accustomed to since the Industrial Age. The Museum of Gamers, as a conceptual proposal we argue for here, sits at the convergence of these contrasting realities. On the one hand, there is a cultural artefact that has a concrete value attached to its authenticity. On the other, its digital interpretation has its own systems of values about being. And the visitor cares about a GLAM's auxiliary services as much as the objects. As information is now available everywhere, people expect a new normal from museums besides mere objects and explanatory texts next to them. As the emblematic medium of contemporary societies games offer engagement methods. Recent marketing strategies such as loyalty games and gamification prove that use of technology is moving ever closer to video games and gamedesign methods. The Museum of Gamers is a creation not only for the dissemination of cultural heritage information but also for its production through contemporary media technologies.

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Video games playing: A substitute for cultural consumptions?

Cited by 34 publications

References 22 publications

A duration model analysis of consumer preferences and determinants of video game consumption

A duration model analysis of consumer preferences and determinants of video game consumption

Foreign Language Skills and Willingness to Move: The Case of a Spanish Region

The Museum of Gamers: Unmediated Cultural Heritage Through Gaming

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