Please, PLEASE stop
Don't write the sentence "There has been very little research done on games" in any more papers or articles or theses and essays UNLESS you also have a full bibliography that cites those few existing works. I don't care how many authorities you cite who may have written those words quite recently. Because yes, gamestudies is a new field, and therefore does not have entire library shelves to themselves, like literary studies. However, if the amount of articles and books you have to read to be able to understand the width of the field is so small, it is pretty lazy scholarly work - sloppy craft, simply - not to have read them all. --Torill Mortensen --Please, PLEASE stop (Thinking with my fingers)Just trying to send a little link love Torill's way.
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Torill is completely right: the writers are claiming to do something new rather than different and sometimes this leads to lazy scholarship. As with pop culture studies, I would imagine that video game theorists would need to take even EXTRA pains to establish the legitimacy of what they're doing. Both academics and the general public alike tend to historically be skeptical of any analysis who's topos is what is pleasurable in the contemporary culture. As someone who has dedicated his life to the popular genre of horror literature and film, I completely empathize.
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