cmiltiadis / other-than-text

Python Jupyter notebook, used to scrape and visualize information about media used in contributions of the Game Studies Journal. Part of a DiGRA 2023 paper.

Game Studies Journal Scraper - Annotated Source Code & Documentation Repository

Fully annotated Python Jupyter notebook of a data scraper used to mine and visualize information about (non-text) media published in contributions of the Game Studies Journal (gamestudies.org) -- such as images, tables, hyperlinks, and iframes.

Developed for, and as part of the contribution Other than Text: Media Used in Game Studies Publications. A Computational Analysis into 20 Years of Publications of the Game Studies Journal, and an Appeal for Research Through Design, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA International Conference: Limits and Margins of Games.

To view the software and its findings it is recommended to open either the IPYNB or MD source code versions on GitHub which contain an extended outline, documentation and code annotations as well as the generated data visualizations.

This repository includes:

• the fully annotated source code together with data output in:
  • Jupyter Notebook format (see IPYNB file in root folder), which can be viewed online, also downloaded and edited;
  • Markdown format (MD) with compressed images, for online viewing with code highlighting, intended for archiving or conversions to other formats (see MD archive version folder);
• the 11 graphs generated using this software (see data_export folder);
• a CSV file listing all images found in journal entries (see data_export/CSV-GSJ image list.csv); and
• a CVS file based on the previous, used by the author to manually classify all images by type (data_import/CSV-GSJ image classification list.csv).

This repository is hosted temporarily by the author pending action by the DiGRA board for hosting and archiving contribution artifacts that cannot be accommodated within traditional paper formats. This is a test repository aiming to demonstrate a potential form of open, extendable, and forward compatible means for sharing non-standard research artifacts in videogame scholarship. This code is archived and citable at the handle

The repository is provided with Copyleft GNU GPL license for anyone to share, modify, and extend this study.