Boellstorf. A Ludicrous Discipline? Ethnography and Game Studies . This is a really early article (the word "cyber" is still used) where the author situates gaming in terms of the ludic (= "game" / "play" think of ludicrous). Or you might want to look at Ch 1 of his Coming of Age in Second Life c. pp. 21-22 and situate in terms of Boellstorf's ideas of virtual worlds. As Jaq Evans of La Trobe says, Boellstorf's point is that we need to take the social and cultural elements of these worlds seriously; both on their own terms and in relation to the offline/analog world.
Nardi, B., 2010. My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, Ann Arbor, MI, USA: University of Michigan Press.
Rea, Stephen C. 2018. “Calibrating Play: Sociotemporality in South Korean Digital Gaming Culture.” American Anthropologist 120 (3): 500–511. What does Rea mean by 'sociotemporarilty'? See this blog. Note in this article, I don't think Rea is arguing that gaming develops good skills managing Korean society, rather the culture of Korea affects how the gamers perceive gaming.
Rea, Stephen C. 2018. “Calibrating Play: Sociotemporality in South Korean Digital Gaming Culture.” American Anthropologist 120 (3): 500–511. What does Rea mean by 'sociotemporarilty'? See this blog. Note in this article, I don't think Rea is arguing that gaming develops good skills managing Korean society, rather the culture of Korea affects how the gamers perceive gaming.
Taylor, T. L. 2006. Play between worlds: exploring online game culture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. In this book Taylor describes her foray into the world of gaming. She starts as a 'noob' so she's able to give outsider's and insider's perspective.
Higgin, Tanner. 2008. “Blackless Fantasy: The Disappearance of Race in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.” Game & Culture 4 (1): 3–26. doi:10.1177/1555412008325477.
Golub, A 2010, ‘Being in the World (Of Warcraft): Raiding, Realism, and Knowledge Production in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game’, Anthropological quarterly, 83(1), pp.17–45.
