Digital games as history: How videogames represent the past and offer access to historical practice

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• This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach, the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Annan teknik -- Mediateknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Other Engineering and Technologies -- Media Engineering (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

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Tv-spel sociala aspekter

Tv-spel psykologiska aspekter

Historia

Datorsimulering

History Computer simulation

History Philosophy

History Methodology

History Study and teaching Simulation methods

Historical reenactments

Video games Study and teaching

Video games Social aspects

Video games Psychological aspects

Computer simulation

History

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