Digging and Mulling
Pretty much what i have spent the last two days doing. Digging for articles for this Game Studies Course i am working on for summer session, am almost finished, and it has been a blast conceptually, but the digging and the scanning of material has taken me hours! And all i could think of is, there is no way i will ever get to read everything! For a field that is relatively new, there is so much literature! Sure, there are very few books per se, but the amount of academic papers and conference proceedings is astounding. At this point, i see several distinct catergories within the literature [to be outlined later]. Its been alot of fun - i think i found my new procrastinatory pass-time (i know - its not a word! but i like it heh)
The only problem with digging so much is knowing when to stop. It has been two days of "ooh i want to add this... ooh!! that too" I can only pick 20 articles at most, and have decided to start [another] personal bibliography of articles i want. The wonderful thing about digital and game studies, is the majority of the literature can be found online and for free. Figuring the cost of ink and paper, i just printed out about 17 articles (ranging from 8 pages to 45) for the cost of about $55. Not bad at all, considering the cost of coursepacks and academic books.
From digging to mulling. Finishing up another year of my BA, i am more then eager to get it over with and move on. With another full year worth of credits ahead of me, i have been contemplating squeezing them in before Christmas. Scheduling and rescheduling with much agony for several days, i think i have found a course outline that might put me over my idealistic time frame by one semester, but i finally get to take that Mass Com. course sashay has been encouraging me to take. (now lets hope werber is still teaching it!) Nonetheless, the soul searching it took for me to decide to take things a step slower to, essentially, get more in then simply graduating early, was well worth the end product. If i am lucky, the IT University of Copenhagen will have an english program by the time i am finished...
Just had to get all that out!
Off for now until procrastination gets me again!
Pretty much what i have spent the last two days doing. Digging for articles for this Game Studies Course i am working on for summer session, am almost finished, and it has been a blast conceptually, but the digging and the scanning of material has taken me hours! And all i could think of is, there is no way i will ever get to read everything! For a field that is relatively new, there is so much literature! Sure, there are very few books per se, but the amount of academic papers and conference proceedings is astounding. At this point, i see several distinct catergories within the literature [to be outlined later]. Its been alot of fun - i think i found my new procrastinatory pass-time (i know - its not a word! but i like it heh)
The only problem with digging so much is knowing when to stop. It has been two days of "ooh i want to add this... ooh!! that too" I can only pick 20 articles at most, and have decided to start [another] personal bibliography of articles i want. The wonderful thing about digital and game studies, is the majority of the literature can be found online and for free. Figuring the cost of ink and paper, i just printed out about 17 articles (ranging from 8 pages to 45) for the cost of about $55. Not bad at all, considering the cost of coursepacks and academic books.
From digging to mulling. Finishing up another year of my BA, i am more then eager to get it over with and move on. With another full year worth of credits ahead of me, i have been contemplating squeezing them in before Christmas. Scheduling and rescheduling with much agony for several days, i think i have found a course outline that might put me over my idealistic time frame by one semester, but i finally get to take that Mass Com. course sashay has been encouraging me to take. (now lets hope werber is still teaching it!) Nonetheless, the soul searching it took for me to decide to take things a step slower to, essentially, get more in then simply graduating early, was well worth the end product. If i am lucky, the IT University of Copenhagen will have an english program by the time i am finished...
Just had to get all that out!
Off for now until procrastination gets me again!
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