Reddit reviews How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)
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Wrote a similar thesis and found this book to be really valuable to me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/081667647X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
The author, Ian Bogost, is probably the most recognized academic doing work in the area of games, so it's probably worth your time to find some other stuff by him as well
Unfortunately I have not read many books relating to the gaming industry/community. I mostly stick to books on game design. I can however recommend one book, How to Do Things with Videogames. It's a collection of 20 essays relating to video games and how their growing as a medium. It's a really good read.
Ian Bogost's How to Do Things with Videogames has a chapter on that.
Check out Ian Bogost's How To Do Things with Video Games and Jane McGonigol's Reality is Broken. Both books revolve around exactually what you ask for.