Video games are maturing as a medium to tell stories inspired by historical struggles and
real-life experiences. In this regard, they could work as a mechanism in Transitional Justice …

Videogames are an expressive medium. They represent how real and imagined systems
work. They invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. As …

The webdocumentary positions itself as documentary re-mediated for the internet age. Not
only does the name webdocumentary consciously reference film and television …

Game ontology is a subfield of basic game research that may be divided into two main
approaches: an attempt to create theoretical models of the nature of games and gaming …

Tracing continuities in digital and documentary practices, this book is a study of interactive
documentary from the perspective of documentary culture. Exploring the dizzying array of …

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on
animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and …

This doctoral dissertation critically investigates how the concept of metaphor is used with
regard to games in game studies. The goal is to provide the field with a self-understanding of …

Purpose. This article investigated the potential of a custom-built board game as a means to
teach historical empathy, improve class participation, and to improve student understanding …

Videogames have dominated popular culture for some time, but only in 2004 did they make
a significant break into the world of politics, advocacy, and activism. This paper provides an …

This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has
emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting digital journalism into full …