Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres

Lee, Jin Ha; Karlova, Natascha; Clarke, Rachel Ivy; Thornton, Katherine; Perti, Andrew

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Title

Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres

Author(s)

• Lee, Jin Ha
• Karlova, Natascha
• Clarke, Rachel Ivy
• Thornton, Katherine
• Perti, Andrew

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• genre
• facet analysis
• video game
• interactive media

Abstract

Genre is an important feature for organizing and accessing video games. However, current descriptors of video game genres are unstandardized, undefined, and embedded with multiple information dimensions. This paper describes the development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information. Using facet analysis, the authors analyzed existing genre labels from scholarly, commercial, and popular sources, and then synthesized them into discrete categories of indexing terms. This new, more robust scheme provides a framework for improved intellectual access to video games along multiple dimensions.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47323

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14057

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