Books selected by Jill Chisnell (Art, Architecture & Design Librarian), Kristen Heath (Music & Catalog Librarian), and Ashley Werlinich (English & Drama Librarian).
Digital Anthropology
Explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation.
Digital Black Feminism by
"This book traces the long arc of Black women's relationship with technology from the antebellum south to the social media era demonstrating how digital culture transforms and is transformed by Black feminist thought."
Digital Imaginaries: African Positions Beyond Binaries
The contributions in this volume deal with diverse digital phenomena: From the continued impact of toxic histories and the conflict-ridden extraction of minerals critical to the digital economy to video games, experimental architecture, the reap prop nation of smart city and innovation practices, the communing of resources, attempts to digitize voter trust, calls for digital resistance and decolonial healing, the relationships between humans and technics, utopia and dystopia, and the limits of reason.
Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom by
"Gaskins draws on research and theory from culturally responsive pedagogy to reimagine the maker movement as more inclusive and diverse."
Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World
The collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture.
Expressive Space: Embodying Meaning in Video Game Environments by
Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition, this book explores the dynamic interplay between mind, body, and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication.
Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media by
Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and reenvisions it as a catalyst for social change.
History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past
This book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the perspective of historical game studies.