Popular History in Digital Games Between Mainstreaming and Diversification (B05)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The TP consists of two ABs, one dealing with expectations in the area of consumption and the other with the production and distribution conditions of digital games with a historical setting. AB I focuses on the expansion and internationalisation of the survey among game players and evaluates the data collected in the second phase, taking into account the data from the first funding phase. In addition, four expert round tables will be organised to generate supplementary material for AB II. AB II concentrates on interviewing selected people from the fields of production, marketing and evaluation of digital history games and analyses the possibilities and limits of using popular notions of history.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Angela Schwarz