Here’s what we’re reading:
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—, and Smedstad, S. M., and Sunnanå, L. 2003. “A multi-dimensional typology of games”. In Proceedings of Level Up: Digital Games Research Conference, M. Copier and J. Raessens, eds. (University of Utrecht, Nov. 2003).
Atkins, Barry. More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Bachynski, John. “Simulating History: Benjamin Franklin, Propaganda and Communicative Game Play”. Brock University, M.A. (History) Major Research Paper. July 2008.
Barlow, Nova “Chimaera”. “The making of World Without Oil,” The Escapist Magazine,September 18, 2007; www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_115/1959-The-Making-of-World-Without-Oil
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Benford, S., Magerkurth, C., Ljungstrand, P. “Bridging the physical and digital in pervasive gaming”, Communication of the ACM, Volume 48, Issue 3, 54-57 (2003). portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1047704
Bessière, Katherine, and Fleming Seay, and Sara Kiesler, “The Ideal Elf: Identity Exploration in World of Warcraft,” in All Academic Research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 11, 2006.
Bhabha, Homi Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Bogost, Ian. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of VideoGames (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007), 1-64; 231-260; 317-340.
—, “Procedural Literacy: Problem Solving with Programming, Systems, & Play.” The Journal of Media Literacy 52 (2005): 32-36.
Brake, David. “Civilization Creator Sid Meier: The Mindjack Interview”Mindjack: the beat of digital culture. May 8, 2002. www.mindjack.com/interviews/sidmeier.html
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Calvert, Sandra L. “Cognitive Effects of Video Games”, p. 125-132. Handbook of Computer Game Studies. Raessens, Joost & Jeffery Goldstein, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Carr, Diane. “The Trouble with Civilization” in ed. Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)
Carson, Don. “Environmental Storytelling: Creating Immersive 3D Worlds Using Lessons Learned from the Theme Park Industry,” Gamasutra, March 1, 2000 www.gamasutra.com/features/20000301/carson_01.htm (requires free login)
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Castranova, Edward. Synthetic Worlds: The Business And Culture Of Online Games. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 1-125.
Clark, Jeffrey T., B. Slator, et al. 2003. Virtual Archaeologist Educational Environment: Like-a-fishhook/Fort Berthold Reconstruction fishhook.ndsu.edu/ [February 23, 2007]
Cook, Terry. “Archival Science and Postmodernism: New Formulations for Old Concepts,” Archival Science, vol. 1, no. 1 (2000): 3-24.
—. “Fashionable Nonsense or Professional Rebirth? Postmodernism and the Practice of Archives,” Archivaria, 51 (Spring 2001): 14-35
—. “What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift” Archivaria 43 (Spring 1997):17-63. Available online at www.mybestdocs.com/cookt-pastprologue-ar43fnl.htm [February 26, 2007]
Crawford, Chris—. “Different Approaches in the Quest for Interactive Storytelling” www.storytron.com/overview/ov_approaches.html [February 22, 2007]
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—, The Art of Computer Game Design. Electronic Version 1997, Washington State University Vancouver. www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
Crowther, Will and Don Woods Adventure 1975-1976. Available online from the Interactive Fiction Archive www.ifarchive.org/
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The psychology of optimal experience (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991), xi-142.
Chen, Jenova. “Flow in Games: An Interactive Thesis on Dynamic Difficulty”, University of Southern California MFA Thesis. Begin at: jenovachen.com/flowingames/abstract.htm
Damer, Bruce. “Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events,” Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Special Issue: Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present & Future, Volume 1, Number 1; jvwresearch.org/
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Dibbell, Julian. “A Rape in Cyberspace (Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One)”, Chapter One of Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life, 1998. (First published in somewhat different form in The Village Voice, December 1993); www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html
Dilger, Daniel Eran. “iPhone 2.0 SDK: Video Games to Rival Nintendo DS, Sony PSP,” Roughly Drafted Magazine, March 20, 2008. www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/03/20/iphone-20-sdk-video-games-to-rival-nintendo-ds-sony-psp/
Dow, Steven, Jaemin Lee, Christopher Oezbek, Blair Maclntyre, Jay David Bolter, Maribeth Gandy. “Exploring spatial narratives and mixed reality experiences in Oakland Cemetery”. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 265 archive
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Dowell, Jayvees and Kathleen Hardener, “Extending the ‘Serious Game’ Boundary: Virtual Instructors in Mobile Mixed Reality Learning Games,” In Situated Play – Proceedings of Dirge 2007 Conference, (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2007), 524-529. www.digra.org/dl/db/07312.41121.pdf
Downes, Daniel. Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
Drake, Shannon. “Breaking the Fourth Wall”, The Escapist Magazine, June 27, 2006 www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_51/308-Breaking-the-Fourth-Wall
Druin, Alison. “The Role of Children in the Design of New Technology”. Behaviour and Information Technology 21.1 (2002) 1-25.
Egenfeldt-Nielsen Simon. Educational Potential of Computer Games, (New York: Continuum, 2007) Introduction, Chapters 6 (page 90, 108-117), 7, 8, Final Thoughts.
eMarketer: Digital Intelligence. Real Kids in Virtual Worlds. May 21, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2009 from www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007095
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Flanagan, Mary, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Andrew Stern, Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Grand Text Auto: a group blog about machine narratives, games, poetry, and art. grandtextauto.gatech.edu/ [accessed on February 26, 2007]
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Fogg, B. J. Persuasive Technology : Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
Frasca, Gonzalo. “Simulation vs. Narrative: Introduction to Ludology”, in Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, eds., The Video Game Theory Reader (New York: Routledge, 2003.
Freire, Paulo and Myra Bergman Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Herder and Herder. 1970.
Gaffield, Chad. “The Blossoming of Canadian Historical Research: Implications for Educational Policy and Content,” in Ruth Sandwell, ed., To the Past: History Education, Public Memory and Citizenship in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Gee, James Paul. “Are Video Games Good for Learning?” Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. (2007): 323-336.
—.“Learning by Design: Games as Learning Machines.” Telemedium 52 (2005): 24-28.
—. What Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. New York: Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003.
—. Why Video Games Are Good For Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning. Altona, Vic.: Common Ground, 2005.
—. “What Would a State of the Art Instructional Video Game Look Like?” Innovate: Journal of Online Education 1:6 (August/September 2005); www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=80
Ginzburg, Carlo , The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller. Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Original in Italian 1976. English 1980. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Granatstein, Jack. Who Killed Canadian History?. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1998.
Grau, Oliver. Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion. Gloria Custance, trans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
Gray, Paul. “Alan Turing” The Time 100 (2003). www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/turing.html
Graham, Shawn ‘Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and the Antonine Itineraries’. In The Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 19.1 (2006): 45-64.
Greenberg, M. (2005). “Arcade academics: creating video games that teach”. The journal of media literacy. 52 (1 & 2) 37-40.
Greenemeier, Larry. Jan 1, 2009. Using Virtual Worlds and Video Games to Teach the Lessons of Reality.60-Second Science Blog. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=using-virtual-worlds-and-video-game-2009-01-01
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Griffiths, Mark & Mark N.O. Davies. “Does Video Game Addiction Exist?”, p.359- 372. Handbook of Computer Game Studies. Raessens, Joost & Jeffery Goldstein, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Gunter, Barrie. “Psychological Effects of Video Games”, p. 145-160. Handbook of Computer Game Studies. Raessens, Joost & Jeffery Goldstein, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Hadziomerovic, Aida and Robert Biddle, “Tracking Engagement in a Role Play Game,” Proceedings of the 2006 Future Play Conference, London, Ontario, October 10-12, 2006. futureplay.org/docs/papers/2006/paper-284.pdf
Hall, Justin. “Future of Games: Mobile Gaming”, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein, eds. (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005). creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/modules/creative_technology/architecture/manovich_augmented_space.pdf
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Harrison, Denise. “Real-Life Teaching in a Virtual World”. Campus Technology. 02/18/09. Retrieved July 27, 2009 from www.campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/02/18/Real-Life-Teaching-in-a-Virtual-World.aspx
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Holland, Walter, et al, “Theory by Design”, in Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, eds., The Video Game Theory Reader (New York: Routledge, 2003).
Howard, Jeff. “Interpretative Quests in Theory and Pedagogy,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 1:1 (Spring 2007) www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/1/000002.html
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Jenkins, Henry. “Collective Intelligence vs. The Wisdom of the Crowds.” The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Nov27, 2006; www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/collective_intelligence_vs_the.html
—. “Coming Up next: Ambushed on ‘Donahue,’” Salon.com, August 20, 2002; archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/20/jenkins_on_donahue/print.html
—. “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” in Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, eds., First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), 118-130. www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/lazzi-fair
—. “Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked”; www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html
Jenkins, Keith. Re-thinking History. New York: Routledge, 1991, 5-26, 59-70.
Johnson, Steven. “When Virtual Worlds Collide”, Wired 14:04 (April 2006); www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/collide.html
Jon, Cogburn and Silcox, Mark. Philosophy Through Video Games. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Juul, Jesper. “A New Kind of Game”. Game Developers Conference: Serious Games Keynote Address,” Tuesday, March 21, 2006; www.gamasutra.com/features/20060321/carless_01.shtml
—. “Games Telling Stories?”, in Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein, eds., Handbook of Computer Game Studies, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005).
Kafai, Yasmin, and Mitchel Resnick, eds, Constructionism in practice : designing, thinking, and learning in a digital world (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996), 1-8.
Kam, M., Rudraraju, V., Tewari, A and Canny, J. “Mobile Gaming with Children in Rural India: Contextual Factors in the Use of Game Design Patterns,” In Situated Play – Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Conference, (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2007), 292-301. www.digra.org/dl/db/07312.25032.pdf
Kee, Kevin, et al. “A Journey to the Past: A Quebec Village in 1890: A Test Case for Best Practices for History Simulations”, Proceedings of the 2006 Future Play Conference, London, Ontario, October 10-12, 2006.
—, and Nicki Darbyson, “Creating and Using Virtual Environments to Promote Historical Thinking”, in Penney Clark (ed.), History Teaching and Learning in Canada: A State of the Art Look (Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming).
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—, and John Bachynski, “Outbreak: Lessons Learned from Developing a “History Game”, Loading (The Canadian Game Studies Association): in press.
—, et al, “Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming”, Canadian Historical Review 90:2 (June 2009).
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