Often, when we think of heritage, our minds direct towards displays of craftsmanship, monumentality– big stones put up by hairy men in loincloths or photo-realistic paintings that you had to write an essay on in high school. Naturally, we seek to preserve these things, to restore them if necessary, and there are means of restoring fine art and conserving it so it…
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As I am using these articles to explore the opportunities of several digital media for historians, I would like to focus today on the subject of video games, which have become an influential part of mainstream culture. Historians might be a bit reluctant to discuss them in combination with historical research, but I would actually like to argue in favour of this.…
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You might enjoy video games, but did you know you can make a living out of playing them? This got me thinking, so I started investigating what it takes to become a professional video game player. To clarify, in this blogpost I will examine Twitch streamers in particular. I am aware of other platforms such as this exist, but because this one…
Ah yes, the greatest danger of the 21st century, responsible for the most violent behaviours, the supreme source of all violence. If you had not read the title you would probably have thought of something completely different. That is because you, like many others, are a person of culture as well (Arakawa Under the Bridge reference). Unless you have just emerged from…
Let’s (try to) create a video game How will I earn the ten points for the Digital Media, Culture and Society course? A question that all students of this course are working on. If you can write well, then the choice to make ten blogs is obvious. Maybe you have had a YouTube channel in the past (or in the present) and…
For my last blog I want to make another prediction, with the simple reason that I came up with multiple predictions while preparing my presentation. With all this talk about video games and specifically about gender in video games I became curious about the future of gender representation in video games in particular. Battlefield is adding women and the Sims is making…
If you are someone who enjoys playing video games you are probably familiar with the feeling of excitement you get when a new game that looks like it is right up your alley gets announced. Oftentimes such an announcement is made months, if not a year, before the company is planning to release the game. That can be frustrating because you just…