Nicholas David Bowman

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2025
Publications (10 Years): 36

Top Topics

Social Networking Sites

Qualitative Analysis

Top Venues

Comput. Hum. Behav.

J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.

Entertain. Comput.

Publications

Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Wei Jie Dominic Koek, Nicholas David Bowman
The effect of in-game moral choices and NPCs' identities on players' intergroup attitudes. Entertain. Comput. 52 (2025)
Kelly Boudreau, Nicholas David Bowman, Mia Consalvo, Andrew M. Phelps
Playing the (Streaming) Fame Game: (Re)presentations of success, challenges, and demand in streaming simulation games. HICSS (2024)
Nicholas David Bowman, Daniel A. Bowen, Melissa C. Mercado, Lindsey Jean Resignato, Philippe de Villemor Chauveau
"I did it without hesitation. Am I the bad guy?": Online conversations in response to controversial in-game violence. New Media Soc. 26 (4) (2024)
Daniel Possler, Rowan Daneels, Nicholas David Bowman
Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives. Games Cult. 19 (5) (2024)
Nicholas David Bowman, Alexander Vandewalle, Rowan Daneels, Yoon Lee, Siyang Chen
Animating a Plausible Past: Perceived Realism and Sense of Place Influence Entertainment of and Tourism Intentions From Historical Video Games. Games Cult. 19 (3) (2024)
Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
Murmuring Crowds and Flickering Lights: Exploring Sense of Place Across Spatial Materialities and Valences. HICSS (2024)
Nicholas David Bowman, Jaime Banks
The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from Video Game Psychology for Teleoperator-Robot Relations. HICSS (2024)
Nicholas David Bowman
A Note of Thanks, and a Nod Towards Internationalization. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 35 (1) (2023)
Mehmet Kosa, Nicholas David Bowman
Replication and Extension of Video Game Demand Scale with a Turkish-Speaking Gamer Population. CHI (2023)
Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
Perceived Moral Patiency of Social Robots: Explication and Scale Development. Int. J. Soc. Robotics 15 (1) (2023)
Nicholas David Bowman, Chingching Chang
Covariation among gaming motivations is correlated with anxiety and sociality: A latent class analysis. Entertain. Comput. 45 (2023)
Jessica A. Robinson, Nicholas David Bowman
Returning to Azeroth: Nostalgia, Sense of Place, and Social Presence in World of Warcraft Classic. Games Cult. 17 (3) (2022)
Nicholas David Bowman, Emily Bohaty
Innovating the Media Psychology of Interpretation, Identity, Interactivity, and Intersectionality. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 34 (2) (2022)
Dai-Yun Wu, Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, Nicholas David Bowman
Watching VR advertising together: How 3D animated agents influence audience responses and enjoyment to VR advertising. Comput. Hum. Behav. 133 (2022)
Evan R. Watts, Kevin Koban, Nicholas David Bowman
Digital gaming audiences: Awareness, without closeness. Entertain. Comput. 36 (2021)
Nicholas David Bowman
Steering Through and Growing From Turbulent Times. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 33 (1) (2021)
Nicholas David Bowman, Justin Keene, Christina Jimenez Najera
Flow Encourages Task Focus, but Frustration Drives Task Switching: How Reward and Effort Combine to Influence Player Engagement in a Simple Video Game. CHI (2021)
Christoph Klimmt, Nicholas David Bowman
Inspiring, Regulating, Multitasking, Modeling, and Shifting: Moving Media Psychology Forward Through Theoretical Innovation. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 33 (4) (2021)
Hanna Klecka, Ian Johnston, Nicholas David Bowman, C. Shawn Green
Researchers' commercial video game knowledge associated with differences in beliefs about the impact of gaming on human behavior. Entertain. Comput. 38 (2021)
Nicholas David Bowman, JihHsuan Tammy Lin, Chieh Wu
A Chinese-Language Validation of the Video Game Demand Scale (VGDS-C): Measuring the Cognitive, Emotional, Physical, and Social Demands of Video Games. CHI (2021)
Kevin Koban, Nicholas David Bowman
Further Validation and Cross-Cultural Replication of the Video Game Demand Scale. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 33 (1) (2021)
Daniel Possler, Christoph Klimmt, Nicholas David Bowman
How Awe Affects Players' Entertainment Experiences Over Six Weeks of Playing. ICEC (2021)
Nicholas David Bowman, Allison Eden, Jesse Fox, Christoph Klimmt, Özen Odag, Ivar E. Vermeulen, Catalina Toma
Call for Papers: "Theoretical Consolidation and Innovation in Media Psychology". J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 32 (1) (2020)
Cathlin V. Clark-Gordon, Nicholas David Bowman, Alexis A. Hadden, Brandi N. Frisby
College instructors and the digital red pen: An exploratory study of factors influencing the adoption and non-adoption of digital written feedback technologies. Comput. Educ. 128 (2019)
Nicholas David Bowman, Jaime Banks
Social and Entertainment Gratifications of Videogame Play Comparing Robot, AI, and Human Partners. RO-MAN (2019)
Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, Nicholas David Bowman, Shu-Fang Lin, Yen-Shen Chen
Setting the digital stage: Defining game streaming as an entertainment experience. Entertain. Comput. 31 (2019)
Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman, Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, Daniel Pietschmann, Joe A. Wasserman
The common player-avatar interaction scale (cPAX): Expansion and cross-language validation. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 129 (2019)
James P. Baker, Alan K. Goodboy, Nicholas David Bowman, Alyssa A. Wright
Does teaching with PowerPoint increase students' learning? A meta-analysis. Comput. Educ. 126 (2018)
Ron Tamborini, Nicholas David Bowman, Sujay Prabhu, Lindsay S. Hahn, Brian Klebig, Clare Grall, Eric Novotny
The effect of moral intuitions on decisions in video game play: The impact of chronic and temporary intuition accessibility. New Media Soc. 20 (2) (2018)
César G. Escobar-Viera, Ariel Shensa, Nicholas David Bowman, Jaime E. Sidani, Jennifer Knight, A. Everette James, Brian A. Primack
Passive and Active Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adults. Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw. 21 (7) (2018)
Johannes Breuer, John A. Velez, Nicholas David Bowman, Tim Wulf, Gary Bente
"Drive the Lane; Together, Hard!". J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 29 (1) (2017)
Ryan Rogers, Julia K. Woolley, Brett Sherrick, Nicholas David Bowman, Mary Beth Oliver
Fun Versus Meaningful Video Game Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of User Responses. Comput. Games J. 6 (1-2) (2017)
Mete Akcaoglu, Nicholas David Bowman
Using instructor-led Facebook groups to enhance students' perceptions of course content. Comput. Hum. Behav. 65 (2016)
David Westerman, Emory S. Daniel, Nicholas David Bowman
Learned risks and experienced rewards: Exploring the potential sources of students' attitudes toward social media and face-to-face communication. Internet High. Educ. 31 (2016)
Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
Avatars are (sometimes) people too: Linguistic indicators of parasocial and social ties in player-avatar relationships. New Media Soc. 18 (7) (2016)
Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
Emotion, anthropomorphism, realism, control: Validation of a merged metric for player-avatar interaction (PAX). Comput. Hum. Behav. 54 (2016)
Nicholas David Bowman, Rachel Kowert, Elizabeth L. Cohen
When the ball stops, the fun stops too: The impact of social inclusion on video game enjoyment. Comput. Hum. Behav. 53 (2015)
Leyla Dogruel, Sven Jöckel, Nicholas David Bowman
The use and acceptance of new media entertainment technology by elderly users: development of an expanded technology acceptance model. Behav. Inf. Technol. 34 (11) (2015)
Nicholas David Bowman, Ron Tamborini
"In the Mood to Game": Selective exposure and mood management processes in computer game play. New Media Soc. 17 (3) (2015)
David Keith Westerman, Ron Tamborini, Nicholas David Bowman
The effects of static avatars on impression formation across different contexts on social networking sites. Comput. Hum. Behav. 53 (2015)
Ryan Lange, Nicholas David Bowman, Jaime Banks, Amanda Lange
Grand Theft Auto(mation): Travel Mode Habits and Video Games. Int. J. Technol. Hum. Interact. 11 (3) (2015)
Nicholas David Bowman, Sven Jöckel, Leyla Dogruel
"The app market has been candy crushed": Observed and rationalized processes for selecting smartphone games. Entertain. Comput. 8 (2015)
Hongmin Ahn, Elizabeth A. Kwolek, Nicholas David Bowman
Two faces of narcissism on SNS: The distinct effects of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism on SNS privacy control. Comput. Hum. Behav. 45 (2015)
Ryan Rogers, Nicholas David Bowman, Mary Beth Oliver
It's not the model that doesn't fit, it's the controller! The role of cognitive skills in understanding the links between natural mapping, performance, and enjoyment of console video games. Comput. Hum. Behav. 49 (2015)
Elizabeth L. Cohen, Nicholas David Bowman, Katherine Borchert
Private flirts, public friends: Understanding romantic jealousy responses to an ambiguous social network site message as a function of message access exclusivity. Comput. Hum. Behav. 35 (2014)
Nicholas David Bowman, Mete Akcaoglu
"I see smart people!": Using Facebook to supplement cognitive and affective learning in the university mass lecture. Internet High. Educ. 23 (2014)
Leyla Dogruel, Sven Jöckel, Nicholas David Bowman
Elderly people and morality in virtual worlds: A cross-cultural analysis of elderly people's morality in interactive media. New Media Soc. 15 (2) (2013)
Nicholas David Bowman, Daniel Schultheiss, Christina Schumann
"I'm Attached, and I'm a Good Guy/Gal!": How Character Attachment Influences Pro- and Anti-Social Motivations to Play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw. 15 (3) (2012)
Nicholas David Bowman, Ron Tamborini
Task demand and mood repair: The intervention potential of computer games. New Media Soc. 14 (8) (2012)
Guoliang Zhang, Guosong Shao, Nicholas David Bowman
What Is Most Important for My Country Is Not Most Important for Me. Commun. Res. 39 (5) (2012)
Nicholas David Bowman, David Keith Westerman, Christopher James Claus
How demanding is social media: Understanding social media diets as a function of perceived costs and benefits - A rational actor perspective. Comput. Hum. Behav. 28 (6) (2012)
Allison Eden, Erin Maloney, Nicholas David Bowman
Gender Attribution in Online Video Games. J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl. 22 (3) (2010)
Melissa L. Lewis, René Weber, Nicholas David Bowman
"They May Be Pixels, But They're MY Pixels: " Developing a Metric of Character Attachment in Role-Playing Video Games. Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw. 11 (4) (2008)