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Peter VordererPeter Vorderer a leading expert on the psychology of entertainment, heads the USC Annenberg School of Communication's Media Entertainment Program, where his work runs a broad range, from understanding how entertainment can be used to stimulate learning, to how it influences politics, to how myriad economic factors influence content. The tremendous and still growing popularity of computer and video games has inspired Vorderer to investigate the factors of the enjoyment experienced by the video game players. For the past two years, Vorderer has served as executive editor of Zeitschrift fuer Medienpsychologie (Journal of Media Psychology, published in Germany). He has edited (with Dolf Zillmann) Media Entertainment: The Psychology of its Appeal and (with Hans J. Wulff and Mike Friedrichsen) Suspense: Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses, and Empirical Explorations.
Seminar speeches given by Peter Vorderer:Covering Entertainment in the Digital AgeJune 07, 2005 What Are the Social and Psychological Impacts of Games? Why is game-playing entertaining? What are the differences between emotional responses to games vs. movies or television shows? How does the ability to interact with the story change our response? And what are the short- and long-term impacts of game-playing?
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