Live streaming has enabled eSports to become more accessible, ranging from
professionally organized tournaments to individuals hosting from their bedroom. While …

This book aims to provide students, researchers and practitioners with the theory and
methods for understanding the web as a socially constructed phenomenon that both reflects …

What happens when a person engages with a virtual world? Are there unique processes of
engagings that occur? One approach to understanding how a person makes sense of a …

The increased popularity of casino games on social media platforms has prompted
international jurisdictions to consider the extent to which these games may be similar to …

Virtual worlds have exploded in popularity and drawn attention from researchers as worth
studying in their own right. An additional, more radical form of scholarship has also …

From social sciences to biology and physics, gamified systems and games are increasingly
being used as contexts and tools for research: as" petri dishes" for observing macro-social …

The paper provides a review of research using virtual reality as a laboratory tool in
economics. It addresses the question of whether behavior in virtual environments is a …

This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the psychosocial factors and processes
related to maintaining and losing control during internet gambling. It explores features of …

With the constant fusion of virtual and reality, a new vision of human beings has emerged—
Metaverse. At present, the development of metaverse is still in its infancy, and although the …

There is currently a need for a standardized concept that describes how relationships
between the self and virtual self-representations operate across virtual contexts. The …