GamifiNation: Games, Players, and National Discourses – Institutsgebäude der Universität Leipzig

Game studies as an academic discipline focuses predominantly on English-language, often globally available games, and on Anglophone game cultures. However, many games engage with national and nationalist discourses: they present national histories, myths, symbols and stereotypes, showing conflicts between different nations, and appeal to players’ national identities. In turn, specific national cultures inform the ways games are created and received.

Presentations in this workshop will explore topics such as: how can games express national discourses? How are games interacting with nationalist political movements and how can they support or critique official discourses? What happens when national(ist) content is translated into an interactive game form? How do locally specific games function in the globalized culture? How do national gaming cultures shape the reception of games?

The workshop will consist of a round of presentations by game scholars from different European countries and a roundtable discussion aimed to further explore the main theme of the workshop.

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