[Air-L] Call for Authors/Editors - Bloomsbury's Approaches to Digital Game Studies book series

[Gerald Voorhees]

Approaches to Digital Game Studies is currently seeking proposal for
monographs and edited collections organized around the analysis of a single
genre of digital game.

This book series examines the social significance of digital games,
bringing together a range of voices from different disciplines in order to
advance ongoing conversations and initiate new areas of inquiry in the
field of game studies. While conversant in digital game studies, titles in
the series of monographs and anthologies bring approaches, theories,
methods and questions from other disciplines to bear on the study of games.
The series is published by Bloomsbury, an independent, international
publisher with offices in London, New Delhi, Sydney and New York.

We define game genres broadly as either ludic, thematic or functional, or
some combination thereof. Authors may work with taken-for-granted genres
but are also encouraged to consider how specific assemblages of games are
united by families of resemblance that may constitute a genre. And to keep
in mind that books in the series need not be a holistic study of the
history, development and contemporary morphology of a genre, though such an
approach is certainly one valid way to handle the subject. Others may seek
to examine a specific element of a genre, i.e. masculinity in role-playing
games, post-modern aesthetics of tower defense, or educational aspects of
real-time strategy games.

Emerging and established scholars, and scholars positioned within or
outside of digital game studies are encouraged to discuss their ideas with
the Series Editors.

To discuss a possible monograph or edited collection proposal, obtain
additional information about the series, and/or review guidelines for
proposing a book for the series, please contact the Series Editors at
gamestudies.books(at)gmail.com.

Additional Information about the series can be found at
https://sites.google.com/site/approachestodigitalgamestudies/.

*The Process*

All proposals for books in the series should start with an informal
conversation with the Series Editors.

If the editors determine that your proposal would fit the series mandate,
you will be asked to submit a formal proposal.

Proposals undergo peer-review by at least one member of the series Advisory
Board and at least one area expert not affiliated with the series. Based on
their own assessment of the proposal and informed by the reviewers'
feedback, the series editors will either recommend that Bloomsbury offer
the author a contract or suggest revisions to the author.

*The Series Editors*
Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada
Josh Call, Grand View University, USA
Katie Whitlock, California State University - Chico, USA
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*The Advisory Board
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Mia Consalvo, Concordia University - Montreal, Canada
James Paul Gee, Arizona State University, USA
Helen Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK
Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere, Finland
Toby Miller, City University of London, UK
Torill Mortensen, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan, USA
Gareth Schott, University of Waikato, Australia
Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia University - Wisconsin, USA