Geschichte und Erinnerung in Computerspielen - by Nico Nolden (Paperback)

About the Book

Many digital games stage history. This book presents the status of historical research, identifies gaps in the discourse based on many examples, and suggests approaches to solutions with reference to other disciplines. As an example role-playing gam

Book Synopsis

This historical study develops a working model to investigate digital games with historical stagings as knowledge systems for commemorative cultures. A research overview identifies shortcomings in the historical approach to digital games that numerous examples and preliminary works from other disciplines help to solve. As a result, the study reveals components of the knowledge system and epistemological interests. Considering their media characteristics leads to a concept of the Historical of digital games, a reference system for gaming experiences, and ways of accessing commemorative cultures. Applied empirically to the online role-playing game The Secret World, the model brings together insights into historical knowledge systems, user perspectives and commemorative cultures that are linked to issues of historical fields of work. Thus, this study advances the exploration of digital games as a historical subject and, through impulses to the fields of work, historical science itself.

Review Quotes

"Nico Nolden liefert mit der vorliegenden Dissertation sowohl einen umfangreichen Überblick über bisherige Forschungsansätze als auch ein Theoriemodell mit daraus abgeleiteter Methode zur Untersuchung der historischen Wissenssysteme in digitalen Spielen." Ulli Engst in: H-Soz-Kult, 15.04.2020, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-29516

About the Author

Nico Nolden, Universität Hamburg