[Roleplaying] Peer review articles for live roleplaying

[J. Tuomas Harviainen]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Markus Montola wrote:

> That's my 1/2 cents. The list is short indeed.

I can add a few more, but not much:

* Sandvik & Waade (Eds). (2006): Rollespil - i aestetisk, paedagogisk og 
kulturel sammenhaeng. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus.
http://www.unipress.dk/da-dk/Item.aspx?sku=1263

Same as with Gaming as Culture, most of the authors seem unfamiliar with 
works done on the same subjects in other circles, but it's still a good 
book. (Can be relatively easily read if one knows Swedish or Norwegian.)

* Balzer, Myriel (2009): Live Action Role Playing. Die Entwicklung 
realer Kompetenzen in virtuellen Welten. Tectum Verlag, Marburg.

A master's thesis in sociology, turned into a short academic book. 
Again, some key references were unfamiliar to the author at the time it 
was written, but it's a solid book nevertheless.

* Harviainen, J.T. (2007). "Live-action, role playing environments as 
information systems: an introduction" Information Research, 12(4) paper 
colis24. http://InformationR.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis24.html

And I'd be a lousy scholar if I did not mention my own little paper, 
wouldn't I?


Then there are of course some few dozens of native-language masters' 
theses and the like, but those are of varying review quality and hard to 
access if one does not know the language. Polish, Slovakian, Finnish, 
Italian, and so on, if one knows where to look.

 	-Jiituomas