Wai Yen Tang Ph.D.
@wytang.bsky.social
Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer
Communications Ph.D. - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism
Communications Ph.D. - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism
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Research on gender faces growing pressure worldwide — a reality game studies scholars know well, from #Gamergate to ongoing harassment. PhD candidates Tom Legierse and Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal call for a network of care among gender and games researchers.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Research on gender faces growing pressure worldwide — a reality game studies scholars know well, from #Gamergate to ongoing harassment. PhD candidates Tom Legierse and Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal call for a network of care among gender and games researchers.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Very happy to share our study on the vocal health of voice actors in video games!
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
Understanding the Vocal Health of Voice Actors in the Video Game Industry: A Survey Study of Vocal Symptoms, Impacts, and Demographics
To characterize the demographics of video game voice actors (VGVAs), their health, occupational behaviors, and report the prevalence, frequency, and i…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
Keeping America Great: The Importance of Broadening Participation in #STEM by @tiffanyito.bsky.social Abigail M. Folberg @charlottemoser.bsky.social & @evaspietri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
Keeping America Great: The Importance of Broadening Participation in STEM
This review highlights how research aimed at increasing women's interest and achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is critical to U.S. national interests. STEM exper...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Keeping America Great: The Importance of Broadening Participation in #STEM by @tiffanyito.bsky.social Abigail M. Folberg @charlottemoser.bsky.social & @evaspietri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
Wu, C., & Chang, C.-H. (2025). How multiplayer online games can yield positive effects on individual gamers, gaming companies, and society as a whole. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12. doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Big title, big claims, big statistical model
cc @celestialsem.bsky.social
Big title, big claims, big statistical model
cc @celestialsem.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Wu, C., & Chang, C.-H. (2025). How multiplayer online games can yield positive effects on individual gamers, gaming companies, and society as a whole. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12. doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Big title, big claims, big statistical model
cc @celestialsem.bsky.social
Big title, big claims, big statistical model
cc @celestialsem.bsky.social
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Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.
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I don’t have to read this piece to know that women are getting blamed for all the ways men made work worse to punish women for entering their workplaces.
Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.
Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don’t have to read this piece to know that women are getting blamed for all the ways men made work worse to punish women for entering their workplaces.
Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.
Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.
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There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.”
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.”
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
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More on the platform and this whole sordid episode here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Extremists Are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website
White supremacists and other extremists have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars through a youth-targeted, video livestreaming service called DLive, according to a researcher of online, far-righ...
www.splcenter.org
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
More on the platform and this whole sordid episode here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Model science here. Finds that nudges work in a survey experiment - but then discovers mostly null effects when tested in a more ecologically valid setting.
Kudos to authors and editors for a) pipelining to ecologically valid settings and b) publishing null results.
tinyurl.com/5dmjr8v9
Kudos to authors and editors for a) pipelining to ecologically valid settings and b) publishing null results.
tinyurl.com/5dmjr8v9
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Model science here. Finds that nudges work in a survey experiment - but then discovers mostly null effects when tested in a more ecologically valid setting.
Kudos to authors and editors for a) pipelining to ecologically valid settings and b) publishing null results.
tinyurl.com/5dmjr8v9
Kudos to authors and editors for a) pipelining to ecologically valid settings and b) publishing null results.
tinyurl.com/5dmjr8v9
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Going to start listening and count how many times 'dopamine' is mentioned
Had fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end!
youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...
youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...
State of the Science: Digital Media and Addiction Webinar
YouTube video by Neely Center
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Going to start listening and count how many times 'dopamine' is mentioned
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Very happy to share our study on the vocal health of voice actors in video games!
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
Understanding the Vocal Health of Voice Actors in the Video Game Industry: A Survey Study of Vocal Symptoms, Impacts, and Demographics
To characterize the demographics of video game voice actors (VGVAs), their health, occupational behaviors, and report the prevalence, frequency, and i…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Very happy to share our study on the vocal health of voice actors in video games!
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.
#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames
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the way i could write an essay about dogen's (youtuber who does japanese language and culture content) newest video. it has me all up in arms lol. ill have to sort out my thoughts in more detail but just a few comments here
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
the way i could write an essay about dogen's (youtuber who does japanese language and culture content) newest video. it has me all up in arms lol. ill have to sort out my thoughts in more detail but just a few comments here
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The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review
By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review
Academic pressure is a potential contributor to adolescent mental health problems, but international evidence on this association has never been synth…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review
By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New episode of Scandalous Games is live! We continue our look at anti-TTRPG moral crusader Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons with the help of Matt Shoemaker, recently-published author of an extensive history of GenCon.
Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 3: Klaatu, barada, nightly news
YouTube video by Scandalous Games Podcast
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New episode of Scandalous Games is live! We continue our look at anti-TTRPG moral crusader Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons with the help of Matt Shoemaker, recently-published author of an extensive history of GenCon.
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NEW: In a recent Oxford-led study by @mmosleh.bsky.social, researchers analysed millions of social media posts containing links to news stories, across seven different social platforms.
Read the full research paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Read the full research paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
NEW: In a recent Oxford-led study by @mmosleh.bsky.social, researchers analysed millions of social media posts containing links to news stories, across seven different social platforms.
Read the full research paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Read the full research paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life
@aliciaernst.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
@aliciaernst.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life
@aliciaernst.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
@aliciaernst.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
So I listened to the commission... What irks me the most is the repetitive linking of dopamine and digital media use
“MEPs to discuss protection of children and adolescents online” happening later today (14:30 CET): www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres.... 🇪🇺
MEPs to discuss protection of children and adolescents online | News | European Parliament
In a hearing on Tuesday, MEPs and guest speakers will analyse key challenges and EU policy solutions to better protect minors in digital environments.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So I listened to the commission... What irks me the most is the repetitive linking of dopamine and digital media use
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Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 23:
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
See topics of interest below 👇
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
See topics of interest below 👇
Open Competition - LISS DTP
liss-dtp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 23:
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
See topics of interest below 👇
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
See topics of interest below 👇
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I wrote a book and it has a cover now! (Pre-order up, available Feb 5, 2026)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote a book and it has a cover now! (Pre-order up, available Feb 5, 2026)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...
Allyship research in online gaming?
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Allyship research in online gaming?