Theme: Criticism and Analysis
Research and education within this theme concerns itself with understanding games as cultural productions by studying the way meaning is produced within and around them. Key perspectives are derived from often Humanities-based fields als media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, political economy studies, fan studies, production studies, and research through design.
Book Launch: Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music – Dr. Michiel Kamp
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Michiel Kamp’s Four ways of Hearing Video Game Music, published with Oxford University Press, 2024.
Book Launch: Videogame Formalism: On Form, Aesthetic Experience, and Methodology
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Alex Mitchell and Jasper van Vught’s book: Videogame Formalism: On Form, Aesthetic Experience, and Methodology, published open access with Amsterdam University Press, 2023. To mark this occasion, Alex and Jasper will give an (online) talk on:Friday, 22 March 2024, 7Am (2PM Singapore time).You can register for the
Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis
Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis brings together authors who explore the aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games.
Enhancing Effective Media and Digital Literacy through Digital Games – a Report
How we can improve media literacy skills through the use of digital games?
The Playful Citizen. Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
The Playful Citizen edited volume explores how and through what media we are becoming more playful as citizens and how this manifests itself in our ways of doing, living, and thinking.
Symposium: Let’s play Dutch game history
On November 18 2016, Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision organized a joint symposium on the challenges of creating an archive for the history of Dutch games and game development as national cultural heritage.