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Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies by email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
Research process
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.
Selected reference books
Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors.
- Computer Games and New Media Cultures A Handbook of Digital Games Studies
- Construct game development beginner's guide : a guide to escalate beginners to intermediate game creators through teaching practical game creation using Scirra Construct
- Encyclopedia of video games : the culture, technology, and art of gaming
- Handbook on interactive storytelling
- Oxford handbook of cyberpsychology
- Oxford handbook of philosophy of emotion
- Routledge companion to video game studies
Find journal articles
How to find journal articles tutorial.
What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
If the full-text of the article is not available within the database then use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.
- Women's Studies International - for any issues related to gender, sexuality and women's studies
- ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
- Social Sciences Full Text Multi-disciplinary database
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Index to literature on design and craft since the mid-19th century. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews.
- For articles on designing video games
- Academic Search Premier -- Covers many GSWS journals. "Limit" search results to "academic" or "scholarly" sources
Selected journals
- Computers in human behavior
- Game studies : the international journal of computer game research
- Games and culture
- Gaming research & review journal
- iThrive: Journal of Games, Self, & Society
Find books and book chapters
The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more. To limit the search results to "books", use the filter (left-hand column in search results) to "resource type" of "books."
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search
Note: In the searches below, you can limit search results to "Online Resources only" and "Resource type" of "Books". You can further limit by using "Subject" (left-hand column)
- feminis* AND technoscience
- "video games" AND (creat* OR design* OR develop*)
- Results limited to "Resource type" of "Books"
- feminis* AND theor* AND (play OR games OR gaming)
- (affect OR emotion*) AND (gaming OR video game*)
- affect studies
- worldbuilding
- worldbuilding AND (writing OR board games OR video games)
- (online OR digital OR computer) AND gam*
Writing
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
Selected books
- Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought
- Collaborative worldbuilding for video games
- Experimental games : critique, play, and design in the age of gamification
- Feminist cultural studies of science and technology
- Game culture reader
- Gamer Nation : video games and American culture
- Gamergate and Anti-Feminism in the Digital Age
- Gamification of society
- Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture [online]
- Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century : Literate Connections [print]
- Gaming representation : race, gender, and sexuality in video games [print]
- Gender Designs IT Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology
- Gendered cyborg : a reader [print]
- Haraway reader [print]
- How games move us: emotion by design [print]
- Intersectional tech : Black users in digital gaming
- Learn to Play : Designing Tutorials for Video Games
- Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse : feminism and technoscience [print]
- New media and technocultures reader [print]
- Once upon a pixel : storytelling and worldbuilding in video games
- Play like a feminist
- Playing with Feelings : Video Games and Affect [print]
- Persuasive gaming in context
- Queer games avant-garde : how LBGTQ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games
- TechnoFeminism [print]
- Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play: Video Games in East Asia
- Understanding video games : the essential introduction [print]
- Values at play in digital games [print]
- Video Games As Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society [online]
- Video games textbook : history, business, technology
- Women in classical video games
- Women, science, and technology : a reader in feminist science studies
Writing
- Black Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, People(s) of Colour (BIPOC): Inclusive and antiracist writing
- Creative Writing Practice: Reflections on Form and Process
- Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing
- Writing for video games
Browse by subject
Browse by subject (change the default "Browse by title" to ""Browse by subject" using the pull-down menu)
- Computer games -- Design
- Computer games -- Social aspects
- Emotions
- Feminist theory
- Games
- Games -- Design and construction
- Games -- Social aspects
- Queer theory
- Video game designers -- Interviews
- Video games -- Authorship
- Video games -- Psychological aspects
- Video games -- Social aspects
Writing
Library guides
- Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
- Annotated bibliographies
- Evaluating sources
- How to find journal articles
- Library Catalogue search guide
- What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
- What is plagiarism? Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them
Presentation skills
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- Resources on developing your participation skills
- Resources to help you improve your presentation skills
Writing help
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