[Commlist] New publication: Board Games as Media

Paul Booth is happy to announce the publication of a new book, /Board 
Games as Media/. In this book, I examine the popularity of hobby board 
games today as analyzed through media studies methodologies. The book is 
designed to be affordable, and it's ideal for classroom use, with short 
chapters, readable prose, and case studies (and a pretty cool cover). 
It's available at Bloomsbury Press 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/board-games-as-media-9781501357176/> (as 
well as Amazon and other online retailers).
Cheers,
Paul

ISBN: 9781501357176

Table of contents
Introduction. Board Games as Media
1. Meeples, Miniatures, and Cubes: Ludo-Textual Analyses of Board Games
2. A Depressing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: The Interactive Potentiality 
of Board Games
3. Colonizing Mars: Ludic Discourse Analysis
4. The Designer as Créateur: The Board Game Industry and Constructed 
Authorship
5. The Player as Fan: Ludic Fandom in Board Game Cultures
6. Who Plays What… Surveying Board Game Players
7. …and Why: Examining Motivations and Popularity of Board Games
8. Cultural Studies of Games: Diversity and Inclusion in the Board Game 
Industry and Hobby
9. The Epic Adventure of Grundy and Trixie: An Autoethnographic Journey 
Through Gloomhaven
Conclusion. The Board Gaming Environment
Afterword: Educational Supplement
References
Appendix 1. Survey Questions
Appendix 2. Data from Survey
Bibliography
Index


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