A book about Pokemon and it doesn't contain haikus? Oh well. It still sounds like an interesting read:

Duly impressed by the phenomenal success of the Pokemon toy and collectibles franchise in the United States and elsewhere in the world during the late 1990s and early 2000s, an international group of scholars from a variety of academic fields, including sociology, anthropology, communications, and media studies, convened in November 2000 for a Pokemon conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Out of this conference comes Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, a collection of thirteen essays compiled by the conference's organizer, Joseph Tobin, a professor of early childhood education at Arizona State University.

Those who want to add it to their collection of night time reading can buy it here. It's surprising there aren't more books published like this that talk about video games as a phenomenon rather than a fanzine. With more and more people who become interested in games as a social issue, perhaps there will be. Kim Phu

Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon (review) [Project Muse via Spell Micael]

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