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Counterplay: Circumventing the Belgian Ban on Loot Boxes by Adolescents KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In 2018, Belgium made the world news for being the first country to ban loot boxes in games for all its inhabitants. As players’ freedom to purchase loot boxes was restricted, however, methods of circumventing the ban came into practice. Departing from counterplay theory, we drew from an online survey among Belgian adolescents aged 11 18 with two questions in mind: what counterplay practices are used to circumvent the Belgian ban on loot boxes, ...
Making Complexity Measurable in Practice: A Formal Analysis of Gamble-Play media KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
Every word you say: algorithmic mediation and implications of data-driven scholarly communication KU Leuven
Implications of algorithmic mediation can be studied through the artefact itself, peoples’ practices, and the social/political/economical arrangements that affect and are affected by such interactions. Most studies in Academic social media (ASM) focus on one of these elements at a time, either examining design elements or the users’ behaviour on and perceptions of such platforms. We take a multi-faceted approach using affordances as a lens to ...
Going beyond short-term, ‘reduced’ PD: Towards an encompassing typology for children’s participation in infrastructuring processes KU Leuven
Although child participation has been on the Child Computer Interaction (CCI) research agenda for many years, there is a lacuna in research on the roles children can play in long-term, sustained Participatory Design (PD) processes. This article explores the characteristics of an infrastructuring approach to PD that revolves around long-term and on-going socio-technical processes as opposed to the more typical short-term PD projects concerned ...
Think Twice to be Nice? A User Experience Study on a Reflective Interface to Reduce Cyber Harassment on Social Networking Sites. KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
social networking sites (SNS). By using machine-learning techniques, harassing online messages can be detected before a user submits it online, whereafter a message prompts the user to reconsider the post. This study builds further upon research focusing on the short-term effectiveness of reflective interfaces in preventing harassment. In this context, though, it is not unlikely that adolescents’ user experience with SNS is thwarted when it ...