PUBLISHED ARTICLES &

PRESENTED RESEARCH [PDFs]

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

[FULL-TEXTS: PDFS]

Rethinking Screen Time and Academic Achievement: Gender differences and the hidden benefit of online leisure through digital skills
(2025)

CASA Renovations: Examining social responses to an anthropomorphic media representative that is separate from the core technology being represented
(2025)

A new meta-analysis of the Proteus effect: Studies in VR find stronger effect sizes
(2022)

Broadband and Student Performance Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023)

An Avatar's Worth in the Metaverse Workplace: Assessing predictors of avatar customization valuation
(2024)

Openness to the Metaverse Workplace: Zoom fatigue and metaverse information seeking mediate gender inequities
(2025)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

* PEER REVIEWED

  1. *Behavioral Influence Through Controllable Avatar Cars (AVACARS): Applying the technology acceptance model and social cognitive theory in electric vehicle games(2025)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Presentation: How to analyze alter-centric networks as ego-centric, multi-level models using SPSS and Mplus(July, 2024)

  1. Authors/Order: Gabriel Hales

  1. Event: [Presented by Gabriel Hales] MSU Hierarchical Linear Modeling Workshop; East Lansing, MI.

Presentation: Social Media Use and Gender Inequalities in Reading, Writing and Math: When Leisure is Learning(June, 2024)

  1. Authors/Order: Hales, G. E., & Hampton, K. N.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Gabriel Hales] International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2024; Gold Coast, Australia.

Presentation: Social Media, Video Games, and Adolescent Well-Being and Achievement(April 2024)

  1. Authors/Order: Hales, G. E.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Gabriel Hales] Michigan State University Fatherhood Forum; East Lansing, MI.

Presentation: Extending the CASA Framework: The Role of a Mediated Representation of a Physical Technology(June, 2024)

  1. Authors/Order: Ratan, R., Earle, K., Lei, Y., Hales, G. E., Jang, D., Kim, T., Lim, C.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Dayeoun Jang] International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2024; Gold Coast, Australia.

Presentation: An Avatar's Worth: Valuation of avatar customization for the metaverse workplace is predicted by virtual meeting fatigue, gaming habits, and being a woman or person of color (June, 2024)

[PDF TBD]

  1. Authors/Order: Lim, C., Ratan, R. Foxman, M., Meshi, D., Liu, H., Hales, G. E., Lei, Y.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Chaeyun Lim] International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2024; Gold Coast, Australia.

Presentation: Broadband and Student Performance Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic (November 2023)

[PDF TBD]

  1. Authors/Order: Hampton, K., Hales, G. E., & Bauer, J. M.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Keith Hampton] Michigan Broadband Summit 2023; East Lansing, MI.

Presentation: Misattributing the Social in Media: The Mediating Role of Digital Skills Between Media and Achievement(August 2023)

[PDF TBD]

  1. Authors/Order: Hales, G. E., & Hampton, K. N.

  2. Conference: [Presented by Gabriel Hales] 118th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA.