Psychology, Video Games
M. Jamshidi; P. Makvandi
Abstract
DGBL or digital games based learning is not only in global level research but it also is a research subject in country level. This research is analyzing a model which evaluate the training quality of management abilities through simulation managing and constructing or CMS games by considering this concept. ...
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DGBL or digital games based learning is not only in global level research but it also is a research subject in country level. This research is analyzing a model which evaluate the training quality of management abilities through simulation managing and constructing or CMS games by considering this concept. This research domain can be so expanded; therefore, only training the municipal management ability with Iranian – Islamic attitude with Sim City computer game has been considered as a case study. The present research approach is quantitative, and quasi-experimental test has been applied to two test groups as treatment, and control groups by pre- test and post-test. The statistical population of the research were industrial management students in Islamic Azad University of Karaj (there were some limitations in this research, so, only this statistical population could be reached to implement the test). Standard systematic approach questionnaire has been used to evaluate students’ scores, and analyzing covariance test has been implemented by SPSS software. The results show that the game was positively effective in learning. Moreover, students who learned the systematic approach by Sim city game earned higher scores than those who were trained traditionally, as a result, the initial theory of this research has been confirmed.
Computer Games
A. Nasrollahi; M. Mehrabi; F. Sharifi
Abstract
After September 11th incident, most of digital game developers commenced developing a variety of games with war theme. These games were inducing U.S. diplomatic and western attitudes toward players. Most of these games are about war and they include attractive designs and interactive features to immerse ...
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After September 11th incident, most of digital game developers commenced developing a variety of games with war theme. These games were inducing U.S. diplomatic and western attitudes toward players. Most of these games are about war and they include attractive designs and interactive features to immerse players; however, these games are transmitting political and ideological attitudes. The sales amount and audience of these games increased gradually in global scale which led to popularity among gamers in the past two decades. This paper is a qualitative analysis with meta-synthesis research method. In this method, after searching, we select 22 related papers among dimestic and international qualitative research in political and war digital games field. The criteria of classification in our research is based on opinion holders that the findings are coded in each class. Theoretical framework of this paper includes Cultural Imperialism and Orientalism approaches. The results of this research confirm that digital games, specifically action and first-person shooting genres with war theme are like enormous powerful media and diplomatic tools in the hands of game companies which are utilized to transmit their political messages to domestic and international players (audience), in order to orient their political, ideological and cultural attitudes, reproduce race, ethnic and religious stereotypes, and perpetuate inverse representation of East.
