Ian Bogost & Nick Montfort have announced a new MIT Press series,
Platform Studies
Investigating the relationships between the hardware and software design of computing systems and the creative works produced on those systems. The series will include books relevant to electronic literature, digital art, video games, and other sorts of creative computing.
The first book in the series is forthcoming in 2008:
Video Computer System: The Atari 2600 Platform
by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost
For more about computing platforms and their relationship to new media, the new approaches which this series hopes to foster, examples of platforms, and answers to questions about the series concept, see the site: