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 project investigates strategies of popularizing history in particularly popular digital games. It does so in three interconnected work packages (AB). AB I examines the ideas of (political) order and violence as conveyed in games with historical settings. AB II examines the methods the games use to popularize specific historical events, processes, actors and more general ideas about history. AB III analyses the reception of these methods and the way popular history as produced by the games is perceived in selected communities of gamers.

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