Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari | Game Transfer Phenomena

Author: Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari

I am a licensed psychologist and postdoctoral researcher in psychology with master’s degrees in Mental Health and Child and Youth Studies. The goal of my research is understanding the interaction between human beings and technology with the goal of maximising benefits and overcome challenges. Critical inquiry on the psychosocial implications of interactive technologies has been my professional passion since undergraduate school when I conducted one of the first studies on Internet pathological use in 2000. In 2010, I coined the term Game Transfer Phenomenon (GTP) carving a multidisciplinary area of research to understand the effects of video games. My research projects are characterised by innovation and impact beyond academia. I have been awarded prices and research grants, including the prestigious European scientific Marie Curie postdoctoral grant. I am a prolific author of academic and popular science articles and poetry and expert speaker. My research has been featured worldwide in books about everything from video games, evolution of the senses and a science fiction book; reports (Lloyds emerging risk report (2018); POSTnote by the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2012); newspapers (e.g., Die Zeit, 2017; The Telegraph – Science, 2016; Washington Post, 2016; El Reforma 2016; Boston Globe, 2014; The International Herald Tribune, 2011); magazines New Scientist, 2011); TV (e.g., BBC news, 2015; an episode of the American series “CSI: Cyber”, 2016; Radio programs (e.g., BBC Digital Human, 2016; BBC – Click, 2011, Piensa Indigo Media, 2012), magazines (e.g., New Scientist 2011; The Atlantic, 2016; Unwinnable Magazine 2016). Other online outlets (e.g., Discovery news 2016; Venturabeat 2015; CBS news 2014; Forbes 2014; Sky News 2014; GameSpot 2014; Kotaku 2011). Amusing parodies (GINX, 2011).

Read about GTP in Spanish- University of Monterrey (UDEM)

January 2, 2012 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari Media

A muchos jóvenes les ha pasado que el tiempo se les hace agua frente a un juego de video, pero algunos de ellos, cuando van a la calle o a dormir, siguen avistando soluciones a acertijos o la estructura de pasillos de algún first-person shooter. Read more…

Portal Christmas & Happy New Year 2012!

December 31, 2011 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP

Portal Christmas Tree by Ryan Kelly, Jason Roberts and Chris Schuster.

GTP article in the New Scientist

December 23, 2011April 6, 2019 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari Magazine, MediaNew Scientist

My research on Game Transfer Phenomena was featured in the New Scientist 23/31 December 2011. “Game of life” by Sally Adee. You can read the online version of the article “Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality” IT WAS mid-January and the roads in New York were slick with […]

BBC "Click" – Podcast: Violence & video games

December 8, 2011 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP, MediaGTP news

Click here to hear the program “Click” from BBC World Service (right-click to download). This particular show was about violence and video games, where I was invited to talk about GTP. The second part of my participation starts at 19:10. Introduction to the first of the show: “Just how damaging are violent video games […]