Week 17 - Doing My Coded Themes

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This week we had to go through our bibliography and find themes for our own work. I chose just to use Microsoft Office Word as it was easier to just type and point out the quotes as I'd done the hard work of finding the quotes and summarizing them in my previous blogs. I found it easy to add little notes as it was all laid out right in front of me - it was a similar idea to how when I was reading my papers, I was highlighting important points and adding in my own commentary on the side, whether a summary of what was said but in my own words or just a note like 'great quote talking about the current RPG world', for example. 



While I'd been reading these papers, I had noticed some themes anyway. I didn't find it too difficult to find themes because I was already conscious of them. It was more so finding out how to link them to each other. Some had several themes and some were blatantly just one. Mental Health and Social Skills were both connected in a lot of ways but I also had a lot of papers on that in my bibliography. As I had a lot of information on both it was easy enough to connect them together. The same went for 'who plays RPGs' and 'sexism in gaming' as both talked about players' experiences.




My themes I picked are:
  • Mental Health
  • Social Skills
  • What Is An RPG?
  • Who Plays RPGs?
  • Sexism
I found that these themes are all linked to each other in some ways. Like mentioned above, some are brutally obvious but there's also subtle links beyond the fact that they're all about the RPG world. 

I then edited my bibliographies and went through to code the themes there too so that they were quick to find. 

Both are accessible at these links:


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