Here I will spend some time digging into some of my favorite books, as well as post links to a few video blogs that I do on the same subjects/ pieces.
I may also take time here to blog about the writing process and I get to work on my own first book!
My current Reading List looks something like:
- Trigger happy : videogames and the entertainment revolution
- Visual digital culture : surface play and spectacle in new media genres
- The medium of the video game
- Pikachu’s global adventure : the rise and fall of Pokémon
- Digital gameplay : essays on the nexus of game and gamer
- Video games and interactive media: a glimpse at new digital entertainment
- Affective and emotional aspects of human-computer interaction : game based and innovative learning a
- Game cultures: computer games as new media
- Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway
- Gaming in Academic Libraries: collections, marketing, and information literacy
- Games of Empire: global capitalism and video games
- Replay: the history of video games
- Hollywood gamers: digital convergence in the film and video game industries
- Digital fandom: new media studies
- Ethnographies of the video game: gender, narrative and praxis
- Gameplay mode: war, simulation, and technoculture
- Cultural technologies: the shaping of culture in media and society
- Digital sociology: critical perspectives
- The transformative capacity of new technologies: a theory of sociotechnical change
- Stealth assessment: measuring and supporting learning in video games
- The state of play: creators and criticis on video game culture
- Emotions, technology, and learning
- How games move us: emotion by design
- Digital identities: creating and communicating the online self
- The art of ethics in the information society
- Posthumanism: a guide for the perplexed
- On/Off : risks and rewards of the anytime-anywhere internet
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