Collected by: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

The Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive preserves content, across varying web formats, generated by and related to digital games, in order to foster research within the discipline. Themes collected include critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and user reviews and playthroughs. Content can be created by an individual, group of individuals, organizations, or corporations. While other sites are collecting digital games and criticism of digital games, no other archive is collecting the responses of the gamers themselves. This Archive will give current and future researchers a means of studying digital games and gamers in distinct and different ways than secondary sources represent. This collection attempts to collect many facets of gaming culture, which may include views expressed by people associated with extremist groups and may include hate speech in some cases. Although some users may find this content offensive or dangerous, its primary purpose is for research and teaching. The Archive is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, Michigan State, and Wilfrid Laurier Universities, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Curators of the Archive are: Laura R. Braunstein, Michelle Goodridge, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Matthew Murray, André G. Wenzel, and Jonah Magar.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities,  Computers & Technology,  Society & Culture,  Video games,  Video gamers,  Video game designers,  Video games — moral and ethical aspects