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The Rhetoric of Gaming

PWR 1CA - Winter 2015 - Instructor: Alfano, C.
Last Updated: 18-Nov-2014

 A guide to resources for PWR 1CA: The Rhetoric of Gaming. Topics include how gameplay in a variety of genres operates as argument about cultural values and how games function as sites of community building, social networking, and learning. 

Background/reference sources about gaming

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The Book of Games, volumes 1 and 2
Battleground: the media
The videogame style guide and reference manual
"Video Games"
Online gaming in context : the social and cultural significance of online games
A book in our general collection in Green Library. 
Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games
Available in electronic format

Video game titles from SearchWorks

This dynamic list includes all items in the Call Number Range GV1469.3 -- which is the call number for video game related items. Newly acquired items will automatically get added to the top of the list.

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  1. The video game debate : unravelling the physical, social, and psychological effects of digital games

    edited by Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt. 2016

  2. Coin-operated Americans : rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade

    Carly A. Kocurek. 2015

  3. Design and development of training games : practical guidelines from a multidisciplinary perspective

    edited by Talib S. Hussain (Raytheon BBN Technologies), Susan L. Coleman (Intelligent Decision Systems, Inc.). 2015

  4. Thinking about video games : interviews with the experts

    David S. Heineman. 2015

  5. Translation and localisation in video games : making entertainment software global

    Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino. 2015

  6. Videogiochi indipendenti : cultura, comunicazione e partecipazione

    Enrico Gandolfi. 2015

  7. Works of game : on the aesthetics of games and art

    John Sharp. 2015

  8. Early modernity and video games

    edited by Tobias Winnerling and Florian Kerschbaumer. 2014

Social aspects of video games

Dynamic list of books and other items in the Stanford Libraries' collections about the Social Aspects of Video Games. Items will appear in the list as they are added to SearchWorks, with newest items at the top of the list.

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  1. Exploring videogames with Deleuze and Guattari : towards an affective theory of form

    Colin Cremin. 2016

  2. The video game debate : unravelling the physical, social, and psychological effects of digital games

    edited by Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt. 2016

  3. Coin-operated Americans : rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade

    Carly A. Kocurek. 2015

  4. Death by video game : tales of obsession from the virtual frontline

    Simon Parkin. 2015

  5. Genre et jeux vidéo

    sous la direction de Fanny Lignon. 2015

More gaming resources

Pew Internet & American Life Project
The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. This link takes you to reports and research on Gaming. Other topics available as well.
CRCnetBase
An online collection of e-books on a variety of topics, including plenty of books and/or chapters on video, online, and mobile gaming.
Index to the Cabrinety collection
VG Chartz
MobyGames
Videogame play footage
The Video Game Museum
Game Studies
Nick Yee’s homepage