Sniffing Through Cyberspace for Resources

Since many of you are coming up dry looking for info on your WebQuest topic, I thought I'd lend a hand.

You won't find much in ERIC using adult + game + preferences as search terms. But if you look at "adult development" and "leisure" you begin to find a few things.

Here are two:
Adult Play
Later Life Leisure: How They Play in Peoria

Then I looked for adult, play and survey as search terms in ERIC and found:
What's in a Game: A Study of Games as an Instructional Method in an Adult Education Class

You probably know that ERIC documents beginning with ED are generally on microfiche in the library, while EJs are journal articles that we might or might not have.

As I continued to explore, I found Bernie DeKoven's bibliography on play and within that found this:

Sutton-Smith, Brian. "Suggested Rhetorics in Adult Play Theories." Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.2 (1993): 102-116. Sutton-Smith is the king of play study among anthropologists.

There were also many articles from a journal named "Play and Culture". Our library has neither of those titles, though Interlibrary Loan should be able to get selected articles fairly quickly.

While I started out simply looking for adult game preference articles, I couldn't help running into other relevant finds:

A website by a student at U-T Austin on the topic of video games, violence and children.

And this one is a find!: an ERIC Digest on video games, covering both the violence and gender issues we've been discussing. ERIC Digests are terrific for distilling the literature concisely for you.

Hope some of this is useful.