Digital Games as History

How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-59782-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapman, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Digital Games as History1. Introduction 2. Interacting with Digital Games as History Part II: Digital Games as Historical Representations 3. Simulation Styles and Epistemologies 4. Time and Space 5. Narrative in Games: Categorising for Analysis 6. Historical Narrative in Digital Games Part III: Digital Games as Systems for Historying 7. Affording Hertiage Experiences, Reenactment and Narrative Historying 8. Digital Games as Historical Reenactment 9. Digital Games as (Counterfactual) Narrative Historying Part IV: Digital Games as a Historical Form 10. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Chapman is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Historical Games in the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden