<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/communication/news/dr-iftekhar-ahmeds-latest-publication.html" dsn="news"><item_date>10/14/2015 04:31:38 PM</item_date><category_header/><title>Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed's Latest Publication</title><subheader/><description/><author>Taylor.Bell@unt.edu</author><photographer> </photographer><image> <img class="img-responsive" src="/communication/images/communication.unt.edu/files/200x300_iftekharahmed_0.jpg" width="133" height="200" alt=""/></image><taxonomy-story-type/><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department/><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
Congratulations to Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed for his latest publication entitled "Understanding Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Individual Behaviors in MMOPG". This article will be published in the book Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds in 2016.
Here's a little more about this publication: Aggression is a widely researched topic in relation to media and technology. Since the beginning of media effects research, scholars showed significant interest on the effect of violent media contents, mostly to demonstrate a cause-effect relationship between media content and aggression. This study moves away from non-conclusive media-aggression relation hypothesis (considering both lines of thoughts) and considers aggression as a stable characteristic of individuals. This study paves way to study virtual world as well as other new media actions and behaviors from a socio-psychological perspective to predict aggressive individuals from their virtual world behavior.</main-content></item>