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Peter Krapp, “Zwischen Wahn und Weisheit der Massen: Computerspiele und die Ökonomie der Zerstreuung,” Soziale Medien – Neue Massen? ed I. Baxmann, U Holl et al, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2012, in press
Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T.L. Taylor, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Peter Krapp, “Machinima: of Games and Gestures,” The Machinima Reader ed. Michael Nitsche & Henry Lowood, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2011, 159-174
Bonnie Nardi, My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (University of Michigan Press, 2010).
Peter Krapp, “Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error,” Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures. ed. Mark Nunes. New York: Continuum 2010, 113-13
D. Burk, Cybermarks November, 2009
B. Wu and A.I. Wang, An Evaluation of Using a Game Development Framework in Higher Education, Proc. 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2009), Februrary 17-19, Hyderabad, India, 2009.
Peter Krapp, “Über Spiele und Gesten: Machinima und das Anhalten der Bewegung,” Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 17:1 (2008), 296-315
R. Nideffer, A.I. Wang, A. Szeto, unexceptional.net, submitted for publication, December 2008.
A.I. Wang and B. Wu, Using XNA to Teach Software Architecture, submitted for publication, December 2008.
A.I. Wang and B. Wu, An Application of Game Development Framework in Higher Education, submitted for publication, December 2008.
Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
D. Burk, Information Ethics and the Law of Data Representations. Ethics and Information Technology, 10(2-3) 135-147, 2008.
A.I. Wang, E. Sorteberg, M. Jarrett, and A.M. Hjemås: Problems and Solutions for Mobile Multiplayer Real-time Games over Wireless Networks, Proc. 2008 Intern. Symp. on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), May 19-23, 2008, Irvine, California, USA.
W. Scacchi, A. Kobsa, C. Lopes, G. Mark, B. Nardi, D. Redmiles, and R.N. Taylor, Decentralized Virtual Activities and Technologies; A Socio-Technical Approach, ISR Technical Report, 2008.
W. Scacchi, R. Nideffer, J. Adams, A Collaborative Science Learning Game Environment for Informal Science Education: DinoQuest Online, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 279; New Frontiers for Entertainment Computing; P. Ciancarini, R. Nakatsu, M. Rauterberg, M. Roccetti (Eds.); Boston: Springer, 71–82, 2008..
G. Smith, M. Cha, and J. Whitehead, A Framework for Analysis of 2D Platformer Levels. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium 2008, Los Angeles, CA, August 9-10, 2008.
D. Frost, Ucigame, A Java Library for Games, SIGCSE ’08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, USA, March, 2008.
C.V.Lopes, L.Kan, A.Popov,R.Morla, PRT Simulation in an Immersive Virtual World, Proc. 1st. Intern. Conf. Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems. Marseilles, FR, 2008.
W. Scacchi, Emerging Patterns of Intersection and Segmentation when Computerization Movements Interact, in M.S. Elliott and K.L. Kraemer (Eds.), Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing, ASIST Monograph Series, Information Today, Inc. 381-404, 2008.
S. Lindtner and B. Nardi, Venice, California and World of Warcraft: Persistence and Ephemerality in Playful Spaces, Proc. 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008.
R. Nideffer, Game Engines as Embedded Systems, in V. Vesna, Database Aesthetics, Univ. Minnesota Press, 2007.
W. Scacchi and J. Adams, Recent Developments in Science Learning Games for Informal Science Education, Presented at Games, Learning, and Society: 3.0, Madison, WI. July 2007.
B. Nardi, S. Ly, and J. Harris, Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft, 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’07), 2007.
Nardi, B. and Harris, J. Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft, Proc. 2006 ACM Conf. Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW’06), 149-158, Banff, Canada, ACM Press, 2006.
D. Burk, Electronic Gaming and the Ethics of Information Ownership. International Review of Information Ethics,4(12) 39-45, 2005.
E. Navarro and A. van der Hoek, Software Process Modeling for an Educational Software Engineering Simulation Game, Software Process Improvement and Practice: 10 (3), 311-325. 2004.
W. Scacchi, Free/Open Source Software Development Practices in the Computer Game Community, IEEE Software, 21(1), 56-66, January-February 2004.
E. Navarro and A. van der Hoek, Adapting Game Technology to Support Individual and Organizational Learning, Proc. 13th. Intern. Conf. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2001.
J. Muramatsu and M. S. Ackerman, Computing, Social Activity, and Entertainment: A Field Study of a Game MUD. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, 7(1), 87-122, 1998.