NIOD Rewind Episode 12: WWII through Digital Gaming

TY - ADVS

T1 - NIOD Rewind Episode 12: WWII through Digital Gaming

AU - van Mourik, Anne

A2 - Van den Heede, Pieter

PY - 2021/3/15

Y1 - 2021/3/15

N2 - What kind of knowledge can we gain from WWII games? In episode 12 of Niod Rewind, Anne van Mourik interviews Pieter van den Heede about his dissertation 'Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming', which he defended last February (2021). Pieter studied how digital entertainment games such as Call of Duty represent the war and the Holocaust in particular, and how players reflect on playing these games.To what extent do studios make WWII games according to the last historical insights about how people actually dealt with this mass violence? How is it that some games become political and thereby seem to align with right-wing ideologies?

AB - What kind of knowledge can we gain from WWII games? In episode 12 of Niod Rewind, Anne van Mourik interviews Pieter van den Heede about his dissertation 'Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming', which he defended last February (2021). Pieter studied how digital entertainment games such as Call of Duty represent the war and the Holocaust in particular, and how players reflect on playing these games.To what extent do studios make WWII games according to the last historical insights about how people actually dealt with this mass violence? How is it that some games become political and thereby seem to align with right-wing ideologies?

KW - games

KW - WWII

KW - Holocaust History

KW - Memory studies

UR - https://www.niod.nl/en/niod-rewind-episode-12

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

PB - NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

ER -