- Increase in online chatting has adverse effects on reading skills worldwideThe worldwide deterioration of reading skills due to the increase in online chatting is continuing per country. This is the conclusion of a study by researcher Hans Luyten from the University of Twente. He studied the data from the international PISA-surveys (Programme for International Student Assessment) in 2009 and 2018 in 63 countries. This was part of a large-scale comparative research study conducted under the auspices of the OESO. During that period, online chatting increased significantly in almost every country, but the rate of increase varied considerably from country to country. In Japan, for example, the percentage of students chatting daily increased from 9% to 85%, whereas the increase in Russia was much lower (from 42% to 58%).Read more
- NWO Bessensap 2019: Games that win you over: influences and mechanisms of persuasive gamesOne of the speakers of NWO Bessensap 2019 (Friday 21st of June) is Ruud Jacobs (BMS). Ruud is preparing for a research project on the acceptance of persuasive games among their intended audiences. He is interested in the motivations people have to play games that are explicitly trying to change how they think about certain issues. Ruud is also involved in teaching in the Bachelor and Master tracks of Communication Science. In November Ruud will introduce a new master’s level course on research relating to videogames, called ‘Game Studies in Social Sciences’.Read more
- Increase in online chatting has adverse effects on reading skills worldwide
- NWO Bessensap 2019: Games that win you over: influences and mechanisms of persuasive games
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