Game Studies

Atkins, Barry, and Tanya Krzywinska, eds. Videogame,Player, Text. Manchester, UK ; New York : New York: Manchester UniversityPress ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.

Boellstorff, Tom. Coming of Age inSecond Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2008.

Branson, Douglas M. The Future of TechIs Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity, 2020.

Bulut, Ergin. A Precarious Game: TheIllusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry. Ithaca: ILR Press, animprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.

Cote, Amanda C. Gaming Sexism: Genderand Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games. New York: New YorkUniversity Press, 2020.

Dyer-Witheford, Nick, and Greig De Peuter.Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. ElectronicMediations 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Embrick, David G., J. Talmadge Wright, andAndrás Lukács, eds. Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play: NewResearch in Digital Media and Technology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

Fickle, Tara. The Race Card: FromGaming Technologies to Model Minorities. Postmillennial Pop. New York: NewYork University Press, 2018.

Flanagan, Mary. Critical Play: RadicalGame Design. Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press, 2013.

Galloway, Alexander R. Gaming: Essayson Algorithmic Culture. Electronic Mediations 18. Minneapolis: Universityof Minnesota Press, 2006.

Gault, Matthew. “‘One Hour, One Life’:This Game Broke My Heart and Restored My Faith in Humanity.” Motherboard, March8, 2018.https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a34mwz/one-hour-one-life-this-game-broke-my-heart-and-restored-my-faith-in-humanity?utm_source=mbtwitter.

Gibbons, William, and Steven Reale, eds. Musicin the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies. 1st ed. New York ; London :Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge music and screen media series: Routledge,2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351253208.

Gray, Kishonna L., Gerald Voorhees, andEmma Vossen, eds. Feminism in Play. Palgrave Games in Context. Cham:Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Kline, Stephen, Nick Dyer-Witheford, andGreig De Peuter. Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, andMarketing. Montréal ; London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.

Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre.Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2014.

Malkowski, Jennifer, and TreaAndrea M.Russworm, eds. Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in VideoGames. Digital Game Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

Maradin, Nicholas R. “Militainment andMechatronics: Occultatio and the Veil of Science Fiction Cool in United StatesAir Force Advertisements.” Ethics and Information Technology 15, no. 2(June 2013): 77–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-013-9316-3.

Martin, Jennifer. “Second LifeSurveillance: Power to the People or Virtual Surveillance Society?” Surveillance& Society 9, no. 4 (June 20, 2012): 408–23.https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v9i4.4346.

McDonald, Heidi, ed. Digital Love:Romance and Sexuality in Games. New York: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2017.https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315118444.

Miller, Toby. “Gaming for Beginners.” Gamesand Culture 1, no. 1 (January 2006): 5–12.https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412005281403.

Mitchell, Scott, and Sheryl N Hamilton. “Playingat Apocalypse: Reading Plague Inc. in Pandemic Culture.” Convergence: TheInternational Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 24, no. 6(December 2018): 587–606. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516687235.

Murray, Soraya. “High Art/Low Life: TheArt of Playing ‘Grand Theft Auto.’” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art27, no. 2 (2005): 91–98.

———. On Video Games: The VisualPolitics of Race, Gender and Space. International Library of Visual Culture27. London New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

———. “The Work of Postcolonial GameStudies in the Play of Culture.” Open Library of Humanities 4, no. 1(March 1, 2018): 13. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.285.

Nardi, Bonnie A. My Life as a Night ElfPriest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Technologies ofthe Imagination. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press : University ofMichigan Library, 2010.

Nieborg, David B., and Joke Hermes. “WhatIs Game Studies Anyway?” European Journal of Cultural Studies 11, no. 2(May 2008): 131–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407088328.

O’leary, Amy. “Sexual Harassment in OnlineGaming Stirs Anger.” The New York Times, August 1, 2012, sec. U.S.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html.

Parkin, Simon. “Was Gamification aTerrible Lie?” How We Get To Next, November 18, 2016.https://www.howwegettonext.com/was-gamification-a-terrible-lie/.

Patterson, Christopher B. Open WorldEmpire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games. PostmillennialPop. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Payne, Matthew Thomas. Playing War:Military Video Games after 9/11. New York ; London: New York UniversityPress, 2016.

Payne, Matthew Thomas, and Nina Huntemann,eds. How to Play Video Games. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Perron, Bernard, and Mark J.P. Wolf, eds. TheVideo Game Theory Reader 2. 0 ed. Routledge, 2008.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203887660.

Phillips, Amanda Denise. Gamer Trouble:Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture. New York: New York UniversityPress, 2020.

Rath, Robert. “The Pathology of PlagueInc.” The Escapist (blog), May 16, 2013.https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-pathology-of-plague-inc/.

Ruberg, Bonnie. Video Games Have AlwaysBeen Queer. Postmillennial Pop. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Ruberg, Bonnie, and Adrienne Shaw, eds. QueerGame Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Scott, Suzanne. Fake Geek Girls:Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry. Critical CulturalCommunication. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Shaw, Adrienne. Gaming at the Edge:Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

———. “What Is Video Game Culture? CulturalStudies and Game Studies.” Games and Culture 5, no. 4 (October 2010):403–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412009360414.

Stabile, Carol. “‘I Will Own You’:Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.” Television & NewMedia 15, no. 1 (January 2014): 43–57.https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476413488457.

Taylor, T.L. Play Between Worlds:Exploring Online Game Culture. MIT Press, 2006.http://site.ebrary.com/id/10173666.

Williams, J. Patrick, and Jonas HeideSmith, eds. The Players’ Realm: Studies on the Culture of Video Games andGaming. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2007.

Woods, Orlando. “Feminist Geographies ofOnline Gaming.” Digital Geography and Society 2 (2021): 100015.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2021.100015.

Wright, J. Talmadge, David G. Embrick, andAndrás Lukács, eds. Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies: CriticalApproaches to Researching Video Game Play. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books,2010.

Zickgraf, Ryan. “Cyberpunk Needs a Reboot.”Jacobin, December 23, 2020.https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction.

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