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The Rhetoric of Gaming

PWR 1CA - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Alfano, C.
Last Updated: 23-Apr-2013

 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. 

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Subjects

Sports and recreation

Related guides

Game Studies

Around Stanford

The Rhetoric of Gaming Blog
Bibliographic Management tools

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

A 2 Volume "Ultimate reference to videogames". Located in the Green Information Center reference collection (behind the Information Center desk) at call number: GV1469.3 .B66 2006.

Battleground: the media

The "Video Games" chapter lays out all the issues around video games. This book is located in the Green Information Center reference collection (behind the Information Center desk) at call number:P95.8 .B38 2008 V.2

The videogame style guide and reference manual

An online guide with answers to style questions like: Videogame, one word or two? Xbox, XBox or X-box?

"Video Games"

An short online article in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences that summarizes social science approaches to the study of video games.

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. Ctrl-alt-play : essays on control in video gaming

    edited by Matthew Wysocki. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .C67 2013

  2. My Playstation vita [electronic resource]

    Bill Loguidice and Christina T. Loguidice. 2013

  3. Understanding video games : the essential introduction

    Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca. 2013

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .E44 2013

  4. Video game programming for kids [electronic resource]

    Jonathan S. Harbour. 2013

  5. Algorithmic and architectural gaming design : implementation and development

    Ashok Kumar, Jim Etheredge, Aaron Boudreaux [editors].. 2012

    SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » GV1469.3 .A37 2012

  6. The Art of Gears of War 3

    edited by Ronnie Gramazio. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .A78 2012 F

  7. Before the crash : early video game history

    edited by Mark J. P. Wolf. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .B44 2012

  8. Best before : videogames, supersession and obsolescence

    James Newman. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .N46 2012

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. Violence & entertainment

    Law Library (Crown) » Basement » HN90 .V5 V56 2013

  2. Before the crash : early video game history

    edited by Mark J. P. Wolf. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .B44 2012

  3. Best before : videogames, supersession and obsolescence

    James Newman. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .N46 2012

  4. Codename revolution : the Nintendo Wii platform

    Steven E. Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.17 .S63 J66 2012

  5. Games, learning, and society : learning and meaning in the digital age

    edited by Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab. 2012

    Green Library » Stacks » GV1469.3 .G423 2012

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

software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, hand-held games, and computer industry literature documenting the microcomputing gaming industry during its formative years.

VG Chartz

a detailed mixture of sales figures, discussion boards, sales analysis, developer interviews, reviews, features, social networking and a sprawling game database.

MobyGames

A Game Documentation and Review Project

Videogame play footage

at archive.org: Find and download videos of actual videogame play.

The Video Game Museum

a collection of games, boxes, books, posters, etc. from pre-1990 computer adventure and RPG games

Game Studies

a peer-reviewed, international academic journal of computer game research

Nick Yee’s homepage

Yee is a research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, who does research in online games and immersive virtual reality.