Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games

Kennedy, Helen W.; Giddings, Seth

Abstract

The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing multinational and multidisciplinary field. The first UK international conference on computer games in 2001, a UWE event organised by Helen Kennedy and Jon Dovey at the Watershed Media Centre, marked a key point in the development of ‘game studies’ from a loose network of researchers into a field with its own research association: DiGRA – the Digital Games Research Association.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Jun 20, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 9, 2016
• Journal: Three_D: news and comment from the UK Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: Issue
• Pages: 10-11
• Keywords: computer games, games study, digital games
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1040180
• Contract Date: Feb 9, 2016