Board Games as Media

Paul Booth is Professor of Communication at DePaul University, USA. He is the author of Watching Doctor Who (2020, with Craig Owen Jones), Crossing Fandoms (2016), Digital Fandom 2.0 (2016), Game Play (2015), Playing Fans (2015), Time on TV (2012), and Digital Fandom (2010). He has edited Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018), Seeing Fans (2016, with Lucy Bennett), Controversies in Digital Ethics (2016, with Amber Davisson), and Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).

• Introduction: Board Games as Media1. Meeples, Miniatures, and Cubes: Ludo-Textual Analyses of Board Games2. A Depressing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: The Interactive Potentiality of Board Games3. Colonizing Mars: Ludic Discourse Analysis4. The Designer as Créateur: The Board Game Industry and Constructed Authorship5. The Player as Fan: Ludic Fandom in Board Game Cultures6. Surveying Board Game Players: Who Plays What… 7. …and Why: Examining Motivations and Popularity of Board Games8. Cultural Studies of Games: Diversity and Inclusion in the Board Game Industry and Hobby9. The Epic Adventure of Grundy and Trixie: An Autoethnographic Journey Through GloomhavenConclusion: The Board Gaming EnvironmentReferencesAppendix 1. Survey QuestionsAppendix 2. Data from SurveyBibliographyIndex

Board Games as Media is a thorough introduction to the academic study of board games, and the book showcases numerous methodological approaches to this topic. This book will appeal not only to scholars interested in board games themselves, but also scholars of adjacent fields of study, such as video games, fandom studies, and textual criticism.