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wytang.bsky.social
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D.
@wytang.bsky.social
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Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer Communications Ph.D. - sexual harassment in online video games
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 12h
"The Case for Expanding the Domain of Registered Reports: Confronting Academic Dishonesty and Declining Confidence in Science" by Robert Andersen doi.org/10.1111/1748...
The Case for Expanding the Domain of Registered Reports: Confronting Academic Dishonesty and Declining Confidence in Science
Human Resource Management Journal is expanding the scope of registered reports to encompass all forms of empirical research in human resource management, regardless of data type or methodological…
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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · 1d
📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social

@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 13h
Sigh Grummz doing his usual misogynistic rage bait for attention & money. Also via @melstanfill.bsky.social I learned this phenomenon called political consumerism where people boycott/buycott because some product did a politic and the research have been pretty pretty busy
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 14h
Oh gosh... it's a grift. Who woulda known. The people crying "censorship" (better known as fascists in everyday language) are profiting from their lies, as revealed by @ninajankowicz.com
The Grifter Complex
A new censorship documentary may have paid its on-camera experts
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 15h
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "Get the fuck out of my timeline"
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 16h
Though daleks are the exceptions
youtu.be/tJSQFzw1pEE?...
Peter Serafinowicz - Dalek Relaxation Tape (from his BBC 6Music Radio Show)
YouTube video by alreadytaken74
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 16h
Please don't let AI slop producers in mass producing shallow inspirational videos
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 16h
Media versus meditation: A comparison of the stress-relieving benefits of multiple media experiences by Robin Nabi, Nathan Walter, @jessgallmyrick.bsky.social @minghuiw.bsky.social & Blake Ekeler
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APA PsycNet
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d
Also I’m sorry but I am just very proud of this cover slide I made for the AEJMC presentation on this work.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d
Recently had a chapter published in the Handbook of Gender and Digital Media, where I develop a theory of “affective masculinity” to try to better understand what masculine genders are doing in video games. It tries to answer the question: what work do feelings do for men who play games? 1/9
New Research: Masculinity as an Affect, and What It Means for Video Games
I contributed a chapter in a new volume, The Handbook on Gender and Digital Media, about how we can start to use affect theory to better understand how men behave the way they do with video games. …
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
The Trump administration has frozen billions in research grants to universities it accuses of bias unrelated to the research, jeopardizing the development of new medications that could prove lifesaving or life-changing.
Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs
Medications that prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures were invented with government funding. At research universities, that money is now canceled or in jeopardy.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d
I'm looking at an old 1998 game dev magazine for reasons and came across this ad. The reason I never get excited about new technology is it's just the same promises over and over and over again forever. This could easily just be about a genAI NPC system.
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 1d
Is it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Is it ok to talk to extremists? Navigating gender and avoiding legitimisation in ethnography with the far right - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Elizabeth Pearson, Royal Holloway, University of London
www.sv.uio.no
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d
New research finds that conservatives tended to endorse moral absolutism, whereas liberals tend to endorse moral relativism.

Moral absolutists are more likely to support banning practices they deem immoral psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 7d
Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d
Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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NPR @npr.org · 3d
Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship." n.pr/4ocHQcG
She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired
Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."
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edenstein♡.° @beepzelbub.bsky.social · 11d
i got 'ship it, inc.' on the steam sale and the first thing i do when i boot up a game is turn down the sound n check the accessibility settings for like subtitles etc. i saw this as an option and omg? this is so cool?!
you see a screenshot that says ADHD/AUTISM FILTER - less repeating sfx and no alarms
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 4d
It seems they've taken a one sided reporting as they didn't cite any of your articles
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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 4d
Very happy to be part of this project and to collaborate with several great colleagues! Follow our social media accounts to stay updated :)
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PROMISE @promiseproject.bsky.social · 4d
On World Mental Health Day we’re launching PROMISE, a research project exploring youth well-being and social media policies.

We aim to understand how these policies affect young people online and develop data-driven recommendations to support their well-being.
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 4d
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Monopoly GO's Evil Strategy to Make You Poor
YouTube video by Belinda Ercan
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · 4d
Measuring consumer digital engagement and political consumerism as outcomes of corporate political advocacy
by Leping You & Linda Hon
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Measuring consumer digital engagement and political consumerism as outcomes of corporate political advocacy
Given the need for more research into consumer digital engagement in response to corporate political advocacy (CPA) within the public relations body o…
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platformsnsociety.bsky.social
Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 20
Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A screenshot of the first page of the paper
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