Bibliography of Computer Games Studies

[Semeno...@googlemail.com]

Hello All!
My name is Semenov Alexander, I'm a M.A. student of Moscow School of
Social and Economic Sciences. I'm trying to make a systematic review
of books, articles, research-papers etc. about game studies in
sociology, psychology and other social sciences. I would like to ask
your opinion about my methodology of gathering the material.
I suppose that in order to achieve maximum representativeness of
bibliography gathered, there are at least 4 ways:
1. To take a ready made bibliography, like in Digiplay.
2. Search the sources like ISI Web of Knowledge
3. Search the archives of different mail-lists, like Aoir list archive
4. Search the search engines.
The last one is the most ineffective, and seems to be a bicycle
reinvention. The first one is the easiest from the first glimpse, but
it may cause sample distortion. The second way looks quite attractive
too, but as I understand, unregistered on-line journals aren't
included in this database. The third one I see as a counterweight to
the first one, and perhaps can add the data not listed in Digiplay.
I'd be very obliged if you comment my plan and advice me some sources
to look for game study references and bibliography.
Thanks in advance,
Semenov Alexander,
semeno...@gmail.com
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html

[Easel_The_Tentacle]

Hi Semenov:

I used to think I knew about game studies, boy was I wrong. There
happens to be a complete floodgate of information related to computer
games. I would suggest a few authors and from there you'll probably
find your way, also some websites.

www.game-studies.org
Henry Jenkins
Jesper Juul
Gonzalo Frasca www.ludology.org
James Paul Gee
Kurt Squire
Andrew Burn
Diane Carr
David Buckingham
www.gamasutra.com

That should be a good starter, these are literally off the top of my
head. Good luck.

Ryan

On Nov 29 2006, 3:53 am, "SemenoffA...@googlemail.com"

> semenoffa...@gmail.com
> Moscow School of Social and Economic Scienceshttp://www.msses.ru/English/index.html

[Jonas Heide Smith]

Hi,

As some may know, Digiplay have recently wikified their game studies
bibliography. It is quite comprehensive:
http://www.digiplay.org.uk/wikindx3/index.php

We display the 5 most recent additions to their database on the front page
of http://game-research.com/

Best,
Jonas

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[Semeno...@googlemail.com]

"As some may know, Digiplay have recently wikified their game studies
bibliography"

He-he, it may sound rather not modest, but it was after my posting in
GAMESNETWORK listserv that Dr. Rutter decided to improve Digiplay's
bibliography.
Talking seriously, now i'm working out results of a query "computer
games OR video games OR digital games" from ISI WoK and Scopus. There
are about 3000 entries, but there are also too much of irrelevant
trash. If someone is interested in my progress, methods etc., I'll
continue informing you about it here. I don't want to make conclusions
untill I have at least a first results of my rough survey.

[Jonas Heide Smith]

Hi,

That's right - thanks for setting things in motion Semonov.
It would be great if you would post your results here.

Best,
Jonas

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