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Cultural Consonance and Mental Wellness in the World of Warcraft: Online Games as Cognitive Technologies of ‘Absorption-Immersion’

Snodgrass, Jeffrey G.; Lacy, Michael G.; Dengah, H.J. Francois II; Fagan, Jesse (Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2011)

We use survey data—interpreted through ethnographic interviews and our own game-playing experiences—to model the way culture impacts the therapeutic dynamics of play in the popular online game World of Warcraft (WoW). To ...