{"id":1112,"date":"2010-11-04T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2010-11-05T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T13:34:41","slug":"social-game-studies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/11\/04\/social-game-studies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Game Studies report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/socialgamestudies.org\">Social Game Studies<\/a> group have released their workshop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialgamestudies.org\/report\">report<\/a>. This is some of the first academic research on social games.<\/p>\n<p>I think academia tends to lag behind what is happening with video games outside the &#8220;core&#8221; space &#8211; even almost a year after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/\">A Casual Revolution<\/a> came out, there is little writing on casual games. Even after Sony and Microsoft have changed their strategies to capture the new market.<\/p>\n<p>Why this lag? I suspect that there is a typical selection problem that the people most likely to go into game studies are the people most dedicated to traditional game culture. But there really ought to be hordes of dedicated Facebook gamers doing PhDs on farming games.<\/p>\n<p>The report in question is from a July 2010 workshop \u201cSocial Game Studies: What  Do We Know, What Might We Learn?\u201d under the following call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn tune with the relative newness of the hybrid medium that is  social games, this workshop pursues two goals: One, to take stock of the  academic and industry research on social games that has been done or is  currently being conducted. Two, to identify what (if anything) makes  social games different to video games on the one hand and social  networks on the other: Which theoretical approaches and methodologies  promise to capture these characteristics, which new data sources,  methodologies and research questions do social games afford?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get the report here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialgamestudies.org\/report\" target=\"_blank\">www.socialgamestudies.org\/report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Game Studies group have released their workshop report. This is some of the first academic research on social games. I think academia tends to lag behind what is happening with video games outside the &#8220;core&#8221; space &#8211; even almost a year after A Casual Revolution came out, there is little writing on casual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/11\/04\/social-game-studies-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Game Studies report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casual-revolution","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}