Annenberg Game Lab - Publications

Annenberg Game Lab

Publications

Kim, J. Y., Williams, D., Kim, D., Zhou, S., Wang, Z., & Yang, A. (2026). Different gameplay styles, different psychological needs – Linking relatedness to behavioral indicators of relational social influence. Journal of Media Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000519

Kim, J. Y., & Williams, D. (2026). No player is an island: Belonging, identity and skill in online game teams. Entertainment Computing, 58, 101171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2026.101171

Zeng, W., Kumar, C., Zhou, S., Kim, D., Yang, A., & Williams, D. (2026). Capability, opportunity, and motivation in a social multiplayer online game: Player influence dynamics in Sky: Children of Light. Social Science Computer Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251414170

Kim, D. (2025). Exploring reciprocity, well-being, and continuation intention in massively multiplayer online games. Psychology of Popular Media. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000643

Bisberg, A. J., Chen, E., Twyman, M., Williams, D., & Ferrara, E. (2025, April). STRIVE: Socio-behavioral Taxonomy Representation for Interactive Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (pp. 1-9).

Jones, S. S. Y., Harrisson, A., Pedraça, S., Marchessault-Brown, J., Williams, D., & Consalvo, M. (2025). The virtual census 2.0: A continued investigation on the representations of gender, race, and age in videogames. New Media & Society, 14614448251336427.

Liu, M., Tang, J. L., & Williams, D. (2025). Sympathy for the devil: Serial mediation models for toxicity, community, and retention. Media and Communication, 13.

Williams, D., Choi, S., Sparks, P. L., & Hong, J. W. (2024). The value of time together: a longitudinal investigation of mentor-protégé interactions in an online game. Internet Research.

Liu, M., Choi, S., Kim, D. O., & Williams, D. (2024). Connecting in-game performance, need satisfaction, and psychological well-being: A comparison of older and younger players in World of Tanks. New Media & Society, 26(2), 692-710.

Liu, M., Sun, Q., & Williams, D. (2024). With great power comes great accountability: Network positions, victimization, perpetration, and victim-perpetrator overlap in an online multiplayer game. New Media & Society, 14614448241268995.

Williams, D., Liu, M., Choi, S., Bowman, N., & Jawaid Shaikh, S. (2024). Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19. Games and Culture, 15554120241236531.

Choi, S., Liu, M., Sun, J., & Huang-Isherwood, K. M. (2023). Who benefits from directed communication? Communication directionality, network structures, and perceived social capital in an online game. Computers in Human Behavior, 147, 107825.

Jonckheere, N., Persaud, C., Liu, C., & Williams, D. (2023). Playing with history in World of Tanks: Negotiated readings, historical realism and cultural memory. Convergence, 29(3), 641-657.

Williams, D., Khan, E. M., Pathak, N., & Srivastava, J. (2023). Social value: A computational model for measuring influence on purchases and actions for individuals and systems. Journal of Advertising, 52(2), 247-263.

Huang-Isherwood, K. M., Kim, S. S. Y., Williams, D., & Bisberg, A. J. (2022). Las mujeres sostienen (más de) la mitad del cielo: Examinando las motivaciones, los comportamientos y el capital social en un juego multijugador popular entre las jugadoras [Women hold up (more than) half of the sky: Examining the motivations, the behaviors, and the social capital in a multiplayer game popular among female players]. Revista Internacional de Sociología, 80(4).

Li, Y., Bartley, N., Sun, J., & Williams, D. (2022). The larger, the fitter, the better: clans' evolution, social capital and effectiveness. Internet Research.

Kim, S. S., Huang-Isherwood, K. M., Zheng, W., & Williams, D. (2022). The art of being together: How group play can increase reciprocity, social capital, and social status in a multiplayer online game. Computers in Human Behavior, 133, 107291.

Nguyen, S. H., Sun, Q., & Williams, D. (2022). How do we make the virtual world a better place? Social discrimination in online gaming, sense of community, and well-being. Telematics and Informatics, 66, 101747.

Liu, M., Choi, S., Kim, D. O., & Williams, D. (2021). Connecting in-game performance, need satisfaction, and psychological well-being: A comparison of older and younger players in World of Tanks. New Media & Society, 14614448211062545.

Morstatter, F., Kim, D. O., Jonckheere, N., Liu, C., Seth, M., & Williams, D. (2021). I'll play on my other account: The network and behavioral differences of sybils. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5 (CHI PLAY), 1-18.

Hong, J. W., Cruz, I., & Williams, D. (2021). AI, you can drive my car: How we evaluate human drivers vs. self-driving cars. Computers in Human Behavior, 125, 106944.

Sun, J., Williams, D., & Li, Y. (2021). Let’s Bail!: The evolution of individual-group affiliation in an online gaming community. Computers in Human Behavior, 121, 106818.

Hong, J. W., Peng, Q., & Williams, D. (2021). Are you ready for artificial Mozart and Skrillex? An experiment testing expectancy violation theory and AI music. New Media & Society, 23(7), 1920-1935.

Hong, J. W., Choi, S., & Williams, D. (2020). Sexist AI: an experiment integrating CASA and ELM. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 36(20), 1928-1941.

Ratan, R., Shen, C., & Williams, D. (2020). Men do not rule the World of Tanks: Negating the gender-performance gap in a spatial-action game by controlling for time played. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(7), 1031-1043.

Shen, C., Sun, Q., Kim, T., Wolff, G., Ratan, R., & Williams, D. (2020). Viral vitriol: Predictors and contagion of online toxicity in World of Tanks. Computers in Human Behavior, 108, 106343.

Choi, S., Williams, D., & Kim, H. (2020). A snap of your true self: How self-presentation and temporal affordance influence self-concept on social media. New Media & Society, 1461444820977199.

Hong, J. W., & Williams, D. (2019). Racism, responsibility and autonomy in HCI: Testing perceptions of an AI agent. Computers in Human Behavior, 100, 79-84.

Ratan, R. A., Fordham, J. A., Leith, A. P., & Williams, D. (2019). Women keep it real: Avatar gender choice in league of legends. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22(4), 254-257.

Williams, D., & Kim, D. O. Third places in the ether around us: Layers on the real world. In J. Dolley, & C. Bosman (Eds.), Rethinking third places: Informal public spaces and community building (pp. 158-173). Edward Elgar Publishing.

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