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[Commlist] New issue of Gamevironments published

Tue Jul 18 13:57:08 GMT 2023




We are delighted to announce the latest regular issue of /gamevironments/, available here: https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/issue/view/20 <https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/issue/view/20>.

We have five contributions:

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*Articles:*

*Silence, Distance and Disclosure. The Bleed between the Far-Right and Gaming*

by Imo Kaufman

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.232 <https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.232>

/Through a close reading of oral history data, this paper demonstrates how far-right ideas circulate through discursive discourses that simultaneously conceal and disclose in gaming space. Henry Urbach’s theory of the closet and queer disclosure will facilitate this, providing a framework in which we can observe how the far-right exists within gaming space whilst obscuring its proximity through fantastical distance and absence./

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*The White Peril. Colonial Expressions in Digital Games*

by Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.174 <https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.174%20>

/This article studies expressions of orientalism and white supremacy through analyses of action-adventure games. It will discuss the historical bias of the adventure genre and its connection with orientalism and white supremacy, followed by framing them in a digital games context./

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*Reports:*

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*Gaming the Nation. A Research Report*

by Kathrin Trattner

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.242 <https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.242>

/A research report on the postdoctoral project /Gaming the Nation/. The project seeks to investigate how gamers discuss and negotiate the concept of the nation in relation to video games and whether or how their own constructions of national identity (in intersection with other social categorizations) impact these negotiations./

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*Interviews:*

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*Interview with Per Backlund, Professor of Informatics, in the Division of Game Development at the University of Skövde, Sweden*

by Lissa Holloway-Attaway

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.239 <https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.239>

/Professor Per Backlund shares his experience working for more than 20 years as a researcher and teacher in videogames./

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*Reviews:*

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*Returning to My Appalachia. The Resurgence of /Fallout 76/. A Game Review*

by Nicholas David Bowman

https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.238 <https://doi.org/10.48783/gameviron.v18i18.238>

/Although the game was considered a failure by many, subsequent expansions of the game have been popular. This essay probes at least one reflective reason for the game’s endurance: the unique sense of place that it provides for players foraging, crafting, and exploring the West Virginia backcountry./


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