Suggested Reading for Addiction Talk
This was the suggested reading that I couldn’t distribute after the talk (note that this was intended as a handout - hyperlinks were added to the version below, where full-text versions are freely available):
1. Secondary worlds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘On Faerie Stories,’ located in the Tolkien Reader. Published by Del Ray.
2. The texture of game worlds: [Dr. Thomas Malaby's Beyond Play] published in Games and Culture but freely downloadable from ssrn.com.
3. Physical immersion: Anne Marie Barry’s chapter from the Handbook of Visual Communication. Published by Routledge.
4. Game-influenced pathologies: [Dr. Jerald Block's Pathological Computer Game Use], available at jeraldjblock.medem.com. Note: Pathologic Computer Gaming is a similarly titled but different piece of research on that website.
5. Google [Dr. Ivan Goldberg’s criteria for “Internet Addiction Disorder].” Compare those to the criteria available at [Dr. Kimberly Young’s website] netaddiction.com. Each of these criteria certainly has some relation to addiction in the more universal sense, but it’s important that we look at how normal non-harmful, even therapeutic gaming structures could be picked up by this sort of a definition.
6. For a great look at the effect of real-world culture, check out [Florence Chee’s “The Games We Play Online and Offline: Making Wang-tta in Korea].” Published in Popular Communication 4 (3), 225-239, 2006.
7. [Nick Yee’s Daedalus project] and [Richard Bartle’s MUD player archetypes].
8. To follow that up with some theoretical definition, check out the idea of structural characteristics in Wood et al’s ‘The Structural Characteristics of Video Games: A Psycho-Structural Analysis.’ Published in CyberPsychology & Behavior 7 (1), 2004.
Please let me know if this posting was useful. I’ve been meaning to actually organize a more detailed list of good resources - if there’s enough interest then I will.
Neils Clark :: May.09.2008 :: Games ::
