Enfoques Sobre El Estudio De La Identidad Gamer: Bibliometría En Scopus

Daniel Eugenio  Salinas Lara

Authors

Daniel Eugenio Salinas Lara Tecnológico de Monterrey https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7401-8354

Keywords:

gamer identity, video game culture, video games, bibliometrics, literature review

Abstract

Gamer identity has emerged from the normalization of video games and their consumption as part of the daily life of audiences around the world, and recently there has been a more pronounced academic interest in its study. This article is a bibliometric analysis of the academic work about gamer identity found in the Scopus database and aims to be a starting point to knowing the most common thematic and theoretical approaches to study the phenomenon. Aided by search refinement and the R Studio tool Bibliometrix, the findings are: a prevalence of qualitative techniques, a focus on young populations, a lack of research on Latin American populations, gender as a common theoretical framework, a pronounced interest in online gaming, and a Western-American epistemic monopolization. Although results correspond to a single database, they serve to detect the most common trends and thus encourage the use of novel approaches to nuance the phenomenon.

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Author Biography

Daniel Eugenio Salinas Lara, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Maestro en estudios humanísticos

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[1] Todas las imágenes aquí utilizadas son de fuente propia.

[2] En una sola línea: ((TITLE-ABS-KEY("gamer identity" OR "video game culture" OR "videogame culture" OR "gamer culture" OR "gamers culture" OR "videogamer culture" OR "videogamers culture" OR "gaming culture" OR ( "video gamer" AND "cultural identity" ) OR "video game community" OR "videogame community" OR "gamer community" OR "gaming community" OR "hardcore gamer" OR "gaymer" OR "video game fan" OR "videogame fan" OR "video game fandom" OR "videogame fandom") AND TITLE-ABS-KEY(identity) AND NOT TITLE(sport) AND NOT ABS("Magic: the Gathering") AND NOT ABS("national identity") AND NOT TITLE("professional identity") AND NOT ABS("web-based communities") AND NOT TITLE-ABS-KEY(transmediation) AND NOT TITLE("dog parks") AND NOT TITLE-ABS-KEY("school playground") AND NOT TITLE("emerging literature") AND NOT TITLE("bot detection")) AND ( EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE,"cr" ) OR EXCLUDE ( DOCTYPE,"er" ) ) )