Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020069
New Perspectives on Old Pasts? Diversity in Popular Digital Games with Historical Settings
Publication Type
Article
Author(s)
Subjects
Popularity
Construct (python library)
Diversity (politics)
Representation (politics)
Sociology
Media studies
History
Aesthetics
Computer science
Art
Political science
Psychology
Anthropology
Social psychology
Politics
Law
Date Issued
2023
Abstract
With their increasing popularity, digital games have come to stage notions of history and the past for ever broader circles of recipients, thereby shaping what is understood, interpreted, and negotiated as history in popular contexts. Digital games with historical settings not only adopt already successfully popularized and widely mediated images of history. They also integrate current social debates into the historical worlds they construct and recreate. Using three highly popular representatives of the medium as examples, this Article examines how the debates about diversity and the representation of People of Color, which have intensified in recent years, inscribe a particular social self-image into the mediated staging of history and thus offer new perspectives on the past.
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