dmitri.usc@gmail.com
_Recent Publications
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. | |
Liu, M., Tang, J. & Williams, D. (2025, in press). Sympathy for the Devil: Serial Mediation Models for Toxicity, Community and Retention. Media and Communication. | |
Yang, A. & Williams, D. (2024, in press). Quantified Networked Influence: How Much do Disinformation Spreaders’ Networks Drive Their Public Engagement? Social Media + Society. | forthcoming |
Williams, D., Liu, M., Choi, S., Bowman, N. & Shaikh, S. (2024). Playing Through the Pandemic: Gaming Usage as a Buffer During COVID-19. Games and Culture. | |
Williams, D., Choi, S., Sparks, P. & Hong, J (2023). The Value of Time Together: Mentors, Proteges and a Longitudinal Online Test. Internet Research. | |
Wang, Z., Zhu, J. Xu, Y., Kim, D. & Williams, D. (2023). Cross-Platform Information Flow and Multilingual Text Analysis: A Comparative Study of Weibo and Twitter Through Deep Learning. Computational Communication. | |
Williams, D., Khan, E., Pathak, N. & Srivastava, J. (2022). Social Value: A Computational Model for Measuring Influence on Purchases and Actions for Individuals and Systems. Journal of Advertising. | |
Huang-Isherwood, K., Kim, S. Williams, D & Bisberg, A. (2022). Women Hold Up Half of the Sky: Examining the Motivations, the Behaviors, and the Social Capital in a Multiplayer Game Popular Among Female Players. Revista Internacional de Sociologia. | PDF English Spanish |
Kim, S., Huang-Isherwood, K, 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. |
_Recent Press
- Webinar (YouTube) (May 2024) on Social Value with the International Social Capital Association
- KQED (March 19, 2024). Game Developers Gather in SF as Industry Reels From Mass Layoffs
- Marketplace (July 24, 2023). Radio: What video games can teach us about economics. Video: Skin in the Game, Ep. 4.
- LA Business Journal (May 9, 2023). Back In The Game
- LIFEWIRE (July 22, 2022). New Apple Patent Could Mean Lasers in Your Next Phone
- NPR (March 8, 2021). lllinois Video Game Ban Bill Faces Uphill Legal, Scientific Battles
- SPARTIE LAB PODCAST (February 4, 2021) Game Studies: Past, Present and Future
- LIFEWIRE (February 4, 2021) Why Google Stadia Failed to Load
- AA.COM (Jan. 20, 2021) Game Industry Gains Momentum During Covid-19 breakout (Turkish)
- WIRED (December 9, 2020) Toxicity in Gaming is Dangerous
- LA Times (June 23, 2020) You could use a hug. Here are some safe options
- TechCrunch (June 21, 2020) Confronting racial bias in video games
- Barron’s (May 13, 2020). In Pandemic Times, All The Gaming World’s A (Concert) Stage
- Washington Post (April 9, 2020). World of Warcraft experienced a pandemic in 2005. That experience may help coronavirus researchers.
- NPR (March 30, 2020). Video games attract millions of players as the world “shelters in place”
_Consulting
I provide consulting services to firms seeking to manage their data and gain insights into their customer’s behavior, including satisfaction, interactions, subscriptions and microtransactions.
Most of this work is with video game developers managing game populations and seeking to improve the player experience, but the models are widely applicable and adaptable.