Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games

CS Lee, H Seo - Journal of Consumer Culture, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigates Korean teen females' Kakao gaming culture by focusing on the
political economy of mobile social games and the issue of free labor within free-to-play …

The influence of psychological needs and motivation on game cheating: insights from self-determination theory

SJ Lee, EJ Jeong, DJ Kim, J Kong - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Game cheating (ie, behavior of violating rules in games by using unregulated
Software or assistive devices to gain advantage) poses a fatal problem as it destroys fair …