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[ecrea] PhD-position game studies/social sciences at KU Leuven

Mon Sep 05 16:10:56 GMT 2016



At KU Leuven we’ll be looking for someone to fill a PhD-position in a project on ‘addiction,’ but from a qualitative/multi-method point of view (in-depth interviews, Social Network Analysis, focus groups).

Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested:

https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53862455

The research project is entitled 'Games of social control: A sociological study of 'addiction' to Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games'. The PhD candidate will be employed at the Institute for Media Studies (Department Communication Science) & will be supervised by Prof. Stef Aupers.

Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (i.e., World of Warcraft) are highly popular amongst adolescents. In comparison with console games, these online games are played three times longer and are allegedly 'addictive': 20 percent admits that playing MMORPGs has a negative influence on their social relations in everyday life. This research project deviates from social-psychological studies, often concluding that low self-esteem and weak social relations explain compulsive playing. Elaborating on research emphasizing the social character of MMORPGS, it theorizes instead that social networks in the game and the social pressure these exert, accounts for much of the neglect of (non-gaming) friends, family, school and work. Research questions are: how are players socialized in / outside the game and develop a social identity as a gamer? In what game-related social networks and secondary institutions are they embedded? How and why do these impede on / compete with social networks of non-gamers?

https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53862455

*Interested?*

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Stef Aupers, tel.: +32 16 37 23 07, mail: (stef.aupers /at/ kuleuven.be) <mailto:(stef.aupers /at/ kuleuven.be)>.

You can apply for this job no later than *October 21, 2016* via the online application tool <http://www.kuleuven.be/eapplyingforjobs/light/53862455>(http://www.kuleuven.be/eapplyingforjobs/light/53862455)

KU Leuven is a stimulating and demanding research environment, and the University currently stands 35^th in the Times Higher Education world rankings.


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