TY - CHAP
T1 - Preface
AU - von Lünen, Alexander
AU - Lewis, Katherine J.
AU - Litherland, Benjamin
AU - Cullum, Pat
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/8/30
Y1 - 2019/8/30
N2 - The relationship between gaming, digital or otherwise, and history has experienced a surge of interest in recent years. Scholars have used it as a vehicle to promote public history by looking at games as a way of representing history in popular media or to analyse how historic stereotypes of gender or race have been perpetuated by computer game characters. Relatedly, in post-gamergate, contemporary culture war discourses, game representations of the past have become a key site of conflict. In the heritage sector, ‘gamification’ of museum experiences is pursued to attract new, younger audiences. From a political and pedagogical point of view, then, there is much at stake in making sense of the role games play in structuring our understanding of the past.
AB - The relationship between gaming, digital or otherwise, and history has experienced a surge of interest in recent years. Scholars have used it as a vehicle to promote public history by looking at games as a way of representing history in popular media or to analyse how historic stereotypes of gender or race have been perpetuated by computer game characters. Relatedly, in post-gamergate, contemporary culture war discourses, game representations of the past have become a key site of conflict. In the heritage sector, ‘gamification’ of museum experiences is pursued to attract new, younger audiences. From a political and pedagogical point of view, then, there is much at stake in making sense of the role games play in structuring our understanding of the past.
KW - History in popular media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106099894&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Historia-Ludens-The-Playing-Historian/von-Lunen-Lewis-Litherland-Cullum/p/book/9780367363864
U2 - 10.4324/9780429345616
DO - 10.4324/9780429345616
M3 - Foreword/postscript
AN - SCOPUS:85106099894
SN - 9780367363864
T3 - Routledge Approaches to History
SP - xiii-xxiii
BT - Historia Ludens
A2 - von Lünen, Alexander
A2 - Lewis, Katherine J.
A2 - Litherland, Benjamin
A2 - Cullum, Pat
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -