Social Game Studies: A Workshop Report
As social games represent a very new hybrid game genre, research on them is still few and far between. Therefore, the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research convened a one-day academic workshop with selected researchers at the 2010 Games Convention Online in Leipzig, Germany to build a solid overview of the current state of the field, and to identify promising areas and methodological approaches of future research.
The report firstly summarises the background, motivation and proceedings of the workshop to then elaborate emerging observations and themes, touching on the technology, economics, design and usage of social games, as well as the general discourse about social games and research opportunities. Together with the growing bibliography and research map on this site, the report presents the results of this workshop.
Recommended Citation
Deterding, S. (2010): Social Game Studies: A Workshop Report. With contributions by S. Björk, S. Dreyer, A. Järvinen, B. Kirman, J. Kücklich, J. Paavilainen, V. Rao & J. Schmidt. Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research. Available at: http://socialgamestudies.org/report.
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