جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « computer games » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

This study was a descriptive-analytic study to investigate the relationship between playing computer games with the eight components of Gardner's intelligence. The statistical population of this study was the students of Tabriz Islamic Art University, 100 of them which were studying in seven fields, were selected by using random sampling and classified. Data were collected by using Gardner questionnaire and questionnaire containing variables related to computer games. The SPSS software, Pearson correlation coefficients, Independent t-tests, ANOVA and Chi-square test were used for analyzing the data. The results showed that the type of games performed has a significant relationship with logical and spatial intelligence. Also there is a significant positive relationship between the hours of playing computer games with spatial intelligence, but they haven’t relationship with other components of intelligence. There was no relationship between the how to play games and the eight components of intelligence. The results also showed that the hours and type of games performed were related to gender and average of times which boys playing game was higher than girls. Girls also spend more time alone playing fun games, and boys playing with friends and fighting games. Also there was a negative relationship between the amount of doing computer games and students' academic performance.

With the advancement of technology, families' lifestyle has changed, and computer games have found a special place among families. Since the 1960s, with the advent of computer games, lifestyle change has been a hidden and visible goal established in many computer games.Some foreign computer games are produced to change lifestyles, change religious values and beliefs, and transform children's attitudes and viewpoints. And since children and adolescents are the future makers of society and computer games' influence on them is evident, it is essential to pay attention to this matter.With proper planning and goal setting, it is possible to promote life skills and Iranian and Islamic lifestyle principles in computer games, provided that the officials and those in charge also have the necessary support for domestic game makers.This study aims to analyze the representation of economic components of the Iranian-Islamic lifestyle in domestic computer games by examining the relevant components in five different computer games.This paper's research method is a qualitative method based on semiotics of economic components of the Iranian-Islamic lifestyle in domestic computer games.The results of this research, which are presented in numerous tables, show that the local computer game industry's high capability to introduce and promote the principles, values, and principles of the Iranian-Islamic lifestyle has not been used appropriately.

Today, computer games have overtaken the Hollywood film industry, which Boellstroff believes that it should be called the gaming age. On the other hand, the communities that have emerged in the development of computer game technology in different societies and cultures, as a community, even in Iran, have such an attractive study and knowledge that the media field resulting from the presence of this new media should be considered by communication researchers and social researchers. Therefore, this article tries to answer the question that what are the characteristics, communication functions and facilities of game nets in Iranian society from a media and communication field of study? The researcher, based on the Participant observation method observed 35 game nets in Tehran and along with 53 semi-structured interviews with the users of these game nets, analyzed the obtained data using the content analysis method (Wolcott model). As a result, 10 types of game nets related to location, architecture and facilities were identified in Tehran. The superficiality and shallowing of group communication determine the strengthening of communication at the neighborhood level, and also provide gamers and administrators of these communities with at least 12 types of possibilities. This article, for the first time, provides a historical overview of the evolution of game nets in Iranian society, along with suggestions for policy makers in this field.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cyberspace on students' aggressive tendencies. The importance of this research stems from the fact that cyberspace today has had undesirable effects on students' aggressive behavior toward others. Theories are well supported. The method of this research is descriptive-survey and the statistical population is 22 students of district 22 of Tehran. Based on Cochran equation, 146 individuals were selected as sample size by multi-stage cluster sampling method from high schools of the area. The research instrument for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire that was validated and validated before implementation. Finally, the data were analyzed in two parts: description and testing of hypotheses. The findings show that the role of the family in controlling students' tendency to violence is very effective (β = 0.202) and is at the forefront, as well as the atmosphere of violence on the Internet (β = 0.224) and Internet games ( Β = 0.2228) are also effective in increasing student violence

A computer game is a mix of technology and the art of advertising, and players (audiences) receive various kinds of messages without notice. The way western countries use it to their desires. The purpose of this study is the similarity between a popular new visual media, whit the components of the Stories in the Qur'an. This research was analyzed descriptive method, using library and observational methods (sites and seeing and running some games). The result of the research shows that many commonities can be obtained from the story and narration of a game and narration in the Qur'ān's stories, this valuation always been the goal achieve God and avoid evil. The result of the research shows that although a lot of commons can be obtained from the story and narration of a game and narration in the Qur'ān's stories, this value has never been the goal but to achieve God and avoid evil. Hence, at the end of each story, people get clear results from the messages. Because the intellectual and social structure of the story, apart from the entertainment, the education and expansion of epistemic and human idea. But this point is ignored in most computer games in the current world, and each person (player) receives concepts from any game that is intended to be made by the makers of the game.

Today, Computer Games have emerged as a new field for the development of new media in the dimension of socialization, which according to many experts, in the coming years will become the number one entertainment industry in the world. On the other hand, gamenets in Iranian society as a place where the behaviors and communication actions of video and computer game users have a special place in drawing Cultures of Gaming in societies, including the Iranian society, so this article is aimed at answering the question, what is the pattern of behaviors and communication actions of computer game users in the GameNets of Tehran?Therefore, to answer this question, the researcher based on the participant observation method observed 35 gamenets in Tehran by cluster sampling and along with 53 semi-structured interviews with the users of these gamenets based on available samples, and notes and pictures prepared By observers and also referring to the Social networking pages of these communities, the obtained data were analyzed using the method of Thematic analysis and based on the Wolcott model. As a result, 17 patterns of behaviors and communication actions were obtained, such as the emotion-tone pattern, the gender mixing pattern, and the modification of action and behavioral obscenities, and the non-response pattern to insults and humiliation, reflecting the status of a Back-Stage community.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of computer games in disrupting social security and order by promoting drug addiction and committing drug crimes.The statistical population in the qualitative part of the research, which was based on data theory,consisted of 16 experts, including professional gamers (players), deputy police anti-narcotics police,as well as deputies of the anti-computer game headquarters. In the quantitative part, 73 addicts under treatment aged 23-23 years, who experienced the presence in the computer game field and were fully acquainted with the subject of the research, were selected using the available sampling method to become a member of the statistical sample of the research. Were. To calculate the reliability of the qualitative section questionnaire,the reliability method was used between the two coders with the final result (79%) and to calculate the reliability of the quantitative section, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient with the final result (0.801) was used.MAXQDA and SPSS software were used in qualitative and quantitative sections and descriptive and inferential analysis of the data obtained from the questionnaires,respectively. Findings showed that computer game approaches to drug addiction and crime tendency are: 1-Promotional-advertising approach, 2- Monetization and exponential approach,3- Educational-educational approach, 4-Normalization approach. The results showed that all identified approaches were involved in the tendency to addiction and committing drug crimes among the players of computer games

Given that today's computer games cover a wide range of adolescent leisure culture and have a lot of behavioral effects, In this paper the role of subculture of computer games in the behavioral affairs of adolescents in Isfahan city has been studied based on theories such as community-friendly theory,social link and personality,performer,play list theory.Also to achieve this end,from among 127817 ,teenagers12-18 years old person across six educational regions of isfahan a sample of 666 was selected by using quota sampling metod. Of course with consideration of some additional questionnaires for non-return questionnaires at last seven hundred questionnaires were distributed among respondents.The data gathering tool, was researcher made questionnaire with five point likert spectrum.Also the research questions were about demographic characteristics of respondents and other variabels.The data was analayzed at both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques and used of some tests such as pearson, Analysis of variance and regression for investigation about relationship between variables.The findings showed that there are significant correlation between prosocial behaviours(family reaction, social being responsible and altruism rate)variables with type of computer games.Other results showed that different age groups had difference about prosocial behavior just for altruistic behaviors. There were no three age groups in the other components of community-friendly behaviors among adolescents. Therefore according to the findings the results indicated that The more use of game types in particular driving and shooting games (with a correlation coefficient of 540.0 and 565/0) among adolescents their community-friendly behaviors are reduced.

By becoming media’s role in understanding and formation of people and societies from themselves and their sphere bolder day by day, and because of video games’ role in this context as a very influencing medium, understanding theme-conveying methods of this interactive medium and knowing how these methods are employed in various political and cultural contexts gets special importance. This research tries to analyse these themes in a specific segment of video games i.e. “War on Terror” games in tactical shooter genre with the help of critical viewpoint of postcolonial studies. This research set to find what themes these war on terror games convey to user by analyzing four tactical shooter games named “Splinter Cell: Blacklist”, “Battlefiled 3”, “Medal of Honor: Warfighter”, and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. This task will be done by employing thematic analysis method for video games. Critical discovery and expression of themes in these games explains that they are used in the strategic communication of US beyond pure entertainment. These games try to intensify the binary opposition arose from neocolonialism, define the Middle Eastern Muslim human as the Other of the western civilization, consolidate superiority of West to East, and humiliate Eastern human through presentation of a strategic narrative of War on Terror in an oriental framework, and also urge to a preemptive war with Eastern human by defining him as an imminent threat for Western civilization.

In this article, the importance and positive and negative functions of electronic and computer games in social life have been studied and it has been proved that electronic games are related to social life in two main axes of the game, namely "game content" and "game environment". Play in the process of early socialization provides people with familiarity with the patterns, norms, values, and customs of social traditions, and thus strengthens social integration and cohesion, as well as the spirit of cooperation and collaboration in individuals. The achievement of the game in social life does not end with the positive functions of the game, but also with the distortions of functions such as "isolation", "violence", "promotion of non-indigenous values" and "acquaintance with peer groups". The religion of Islam proposed "culture of family and public supervision", "culture of all-round participation" and "culture of moral evaluation of technological products" to overcome the harms caused by the distortions of the functions of the game.

The purpose of this study was to compare self-regulation among students interested in computer games based on the style of play, the place of play, the history of the game, and the hours of playing the day.

The method of this descriptive - comparative type. The statistical population of this research was elementary school students in Baharestan2, a sample of 372 of them selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. Bouffard questionnaire (1995) was used to measure self-regulation.

There was a significant difference between students self-regulatory based on computer game styles, computer games history and hours of computer games usage per day(P< .05), But there was no significant difference between self-regulatory learning of students according to the location of the computer game(P< .14). Data analysis was performed using Kruskal-Wallis statistical test.

According to the results of the research, schools should take action to identify non-destructive computer games that can help students to improve their self-regulation skills. Provide it to parents and students in the form of educational packages. Students should be justified on the amount of computer gaming hours per day.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between use of computer games and aggression in children in Ardabil. The research method of achieving the goal, is functional and correlation - survey and research tool is the questionnaire.The statistical population include allthe8- to12-year- old children of Ardabil (in 1394)that according to registration documents their numberwere 64 209 people. The sampling method in the study was simple random sampling and multistage cluster sampling. The sample size was calculated 398 people using the formula Cochrane. Data collection method was using questionnaire and the data collected then analyzed using SPSS software.Analysis was conducted at two levels: the first level of description where the indexes like frequency indexand ...were used and Level of inferential statistics in which statistical tests, Pearson and regression were used. the results showed that between Independent variables(The time of computer games, Type computer games , The rate of computer games, The violence in computer games, Characters in computer games) and aggression in children strong and direct relationship between parental monitoring of kids computer games and aggression in children and there is a strong inverse relationship. relationship between parental monitoring of kids computer games and aggression in children and there is a strong inverse relationship

Computer games, as a medium, consist of components or subsystems. Analysis of these games to its constitutive components or layers, can improve accuracy in ethical research about the games. This article intends to analyze computer games and also conducted researches about them, define layers for them and to explain these layers, survey examples of Games and ethical issues related.The goal, story, mechanic, interaction and symbols can be classified as a layer constituent computer games. Result of this paper improve the speed and accuracy of Ethical Judgment and also a.[appear Potential of ethical issues in layers of games] or b.[determine the layers that have more potential for ethical issues]. also Layer Analysis can be an approach for Ethical Judgment in other subjects and dilemmas.

The purpose of the present study was to develop a computer game design framework for learning a variety of cognitive topics and assessing its effectiveness in procedural learning. To achieve this goal, a mixed research method was used. In the qualitative phase for obtaining the framework, a deductive analysis was employed and in quantitative part for internal validation, a survey method to extract the experts' point of view was utilized. Moreover, for evaluating external validity in procedural learning, a pretest and post-test experimental group with a control group was used. Through analyzing the data related to the mechanics of computer games, 32 essential mechanics of computer games were extracted. Mechanics such as problem solving, search and exploration, action, implementation, hierarchy, and time limits were used for procedural learning in digital games. The proposed mechanics for internal validation were sent to 25 learning and game specialists and the results of the analysis of the internal validity of the framework assessment showed that the proposed framework for teaching cognitive subjects has a good validity. Furthermore, in order to obtain the external validity of the proposed framework, 40 students were placed in experimental (20) and control (20) groups. The results of covariance analysis to examine the effectiveness of an external validation also showed that there is a significant difference between the game design based on the proposed framework and the normal game.

This study intended to investigate the relationship between the rate of the use of computer games and elementary school students’ academic procrastination considering the mediatory role of goal orientation. To this end, using a multi-stage cluster sampling procedure, 213 male and female elementary school students (112 female and 101 male students) were selected from the two educational districts of Shiraz. The instruments used in the study included a questionnaire on Academic Procrastination (Savari, 2011), one on Goal Orientation (Elliott, 1999 and McGregor, 2001) and a researcher-made questionnaire on the time spent using computer games daily. Regarding the first two questionnaires, Cronbach's alpha method was used to estimate the reliability and validity of the correlations of the items with the dimensions and the correlation of the dimensions with the total score was also used. The obtained results confirmed the acceptable validity and reliability of the questionnaires. To evaluate the model, path analysis was utilized using SPSS 21 software. Results indicated that there was a negative and significant relationship between academic procrastination, mastery-oriented goal orientation and the rate of the use of computer games. Furthermore, the mastery-avoidance goal orientation was a positive and significant predictor of academic procrastination. However, there was not any statistically significant difference between male and female students in terms of the relationship between goal orientation (performance-oriented, performance-avoidance, mastery-oriented, and mastery-avoidance) and the rate of the use of computer games. Findings of the research indicated that there was a negative and significant relationship between academic proclivity and goal orientation-dominant and tenderness-performance. Also, the use of computer games predicted a positive and significant predictive of academic achievement and predicted a negative and significant predictive the mastery-avoidance goal orientation. Also, there was no significant difference between male and female students in terms of academic procrastination and goal orientation.

Computer games are exciting entertainments for teens that are attractive due to their charm and enjoyment. Today, with the expansion of computer games, we witness various complications. Social science experts emphasize the role of these games in isolating, confusing, and reducing social interaction among adolescents as a result of computer game addiction. In this study, the role of computer games was studied with a focus on adolescent addiction to these games in their isolation. The study used a survey design and questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data on the two variables of computer addiction and soliloquy in adolescents. The reliability of the research instrument was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test. The population of this study was all male students of guidance schools in Kashan in 2018. Using Cochran sampling formula, 320 individuals were randomly selected and surveyed. The research findings showed high correlation between the two variables of computer addiction and student isolation. Pearson test results were r = 0.452, the reliability of the relationship between the two high variables was statistically significant in the 99% confidence level. The type of relationship is positive indicating that with the increase in the rate of addiction to computer games, we are witnessing an increase in the social isolation of students.

The current study is conducted with the purpose of analyzing the content of educational computer games based on principles and standards of game design. The basic questions of this research are as follows: 1. Are the educational computer games produced based on the standards of significant computer game design? 2. Do the produced educational computer games correspond with the elements and principles offered by specialists of game design? The statistical population is all the produced educational computer games. Convenience sampling is used to select samples; hence, 9 educational computer games are selected and analyzed. Data collection tools include a self-made checklist prepared based on the two main research question. The validity of checklist was approved by supervisor, advisor and other experts, and to determine its reliability using the composite reliability coefficient, a 94 percent agreement was obtained. This checklist contained the five point Likert scale and data were analyzed using SPSS software. Research findings indicate that all games analyzed in terms of principles and standards are in a relatively good (average) state.