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Record W4412619865 · doi:10.53288/0441.1.04

Young Scholars, and Old Debates

2025· book-chapter· en· W4412619865 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePunctum Books · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Games and Media
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryPolitical scienceSociology

Abstract

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Vossen outlines her experiences in the game studies community from 2012 to 2022 focusing on the ludology vs narratology debate's impact on herself and other game scholars. She argues that these “debates” alienated many scholars looking to become part of the field by outlining a “right” and “wrong” way to study games. Vossen discusses how essays like “Genre Trouble” and the larger ludology vs narratology debate made her feel unwelcome as someone with a PhD in English examining issues of culture and gender in games. In the tradition of historiography, Vossen examines how the histories of the debate have been recorded, reinterpreted, perceived, and felt by multiple generations of scholars. Vossen argues that the debate is the story of how the work of a few men who used similar theories and methods were canonized. Consequently, games-related work that uses other methodologies, often favoured by women and queer people, are marginalized and pushed to the fringes of the field. Vossen concludes that it is only by continuously discussing and addressing the failures of these early debates and their impact on game studies that we can undo the harm they have caused.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.958
Threshold uncertainty score0.830

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it