Browsing by Author "Arthur, Tori Omega, committee member"

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Accessibility, self-efficacy, flow, and their relationship to the gameplay experience of fighting games
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Sanchez, Jesse Shadoe Aquilino, author; Tham, Samuel M., advisor; Arthur, Tori Omega, committee member; Romagni, Domenica, committee member
This study investigates the impact of video game accessibility in the context of fighting games. It further explores how accessibility influences perceived self-efficacy within the framework of Social Cognitive Theory. While previous research broadly explored accessibility and self-efficacy in gaming, this study fills a gap by focusing on the fighting game genre. By applying self-efficacy theory, the research enhances our understanding of new player and legacy player perceptions of the Fighting Game Community based on the accessibility features of Street Fighter 6, offering key insights for both researchers and industry stakeholders. Through a textual analysis of Street Fighter 6 reviews on Steam, it examines how accessibility influences gamers' self-efficacy, flow, and gameplay experience. The findings offer insights into gamer's perceptions of fighting game accessibility and provide valuable information for marketing and development strategies aimed at attracting new players to established fan bases.
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Building beautiful bridges: Indigenous womxn artists using social networking sites to address violence
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Folsom, Jennifer J., author; Wolfgang, J. David, advisor; Arthur, Tori Omega, committee member; Champ, Joseph G., committee member; Jacobs, Peter, committee member; Moore, Emily L., committee member
Using Indigenous aesthetics, critical technocultural discourse analysis, and Indigenous storyworks, this study explores how Indigenous womxn's art practices challenge settler-colonizing visual and media representations of Indigenous peoples that feed violence against womxn, girls and two-spirits; and in the digital realm, how sharing their art-stories is testimony to the unique voices of Indigenous womxn's leadership. A critical technocultural discourse analysis of in-depth interviews and social networking site (SNS) posts reveals underlying settler-colonial discourses. Through their art-storytelling, artist-participants use technocultural discourses of generosity, collaboration/reciprocity, calling in/calling out, creating and respecting boundaries and fierceness to shift dominating discourses. In a real sense they are building bridges between on and offline realms, strengthening community networks, and bringing together past, present and future to prevent violence.