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March 30, 2022

Making Fun of Tetris

I am very happy to announce that my chapter “Making fun of Tetris: Humour in parodies of a computer game classic” has just been published. It was fun to write since it is about playable and non-playable parodies of Tetris that take the form of cartoons, meta-games, Youtube videos etc. I enjoyed the most that this allowed me to investigate...

News/Publication/Research

November 12, 2021

Landeslehrpreis gewonnen!

Mein Team und ich freuen uns riesig, dass wir den brandenburgischen Landeslehrpreis 2021 gewonnen haben! Dieser Preis ist eine tolle Anerkennung dafür, dass wir Wege gefunden haben, die Pandemie inhaltlich und strukturell in unser Lehrangebot zu integrieren und fruchtbar zu machen. Zum Team gehören Pia Buskies-Utesch, Jessica Rehse, Johannes Fähmel und Florian Nowotny. Gemeinsam haben wir das Seminar „Exhibiting Nature...

News/Projects/Research/Teaching

October 25, 2021

Für den Landeslehrpreis nominiert!

Ich freue mich riesig: Unser Seminar “Exhibiting Nature Digitally – Ausstellen im Digitalen” ist für den Landeslehrpreis Brandenburg 2021 nominiert. Das Seminar habe ich zusammen mit meinem Team – Jessica Rehse, Pia Buskies Utesch, Florian Nowotny und Johannes Fähmel – im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts “FoLD (Forschen | Lernen Digital)” entwickelt: Im Seminar setzen sich die Studierenden theoretisch und praktisch mit...

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July 7, 2021

Wetter in Pokémon und Co. in der neuen “Dritte Natur”

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Dritte Natur zum Thema “Künstliches Klima” ist erschienen. Unter den vielen spannenden Artikeln ist auch der Beitrag “Das Wetter kontrollieren – Klima und Agenzialität im Computerspiel” von Lydia Kray und mir. Wir beleuchten an den Beispielen Pokémon Smaragd, Ori and the Blind Forest sowie Never Alone, inwiefern das Wetter in Computerspielen als etwas Steuerbares dargestellt...

Journals/News/Publication/Research

November 5, 2020

“The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” now available as open access and as video

Our paper “The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” is now available as open access publication via the DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402978. The video of the talk can be watched here: Espen Aarseth and I presented it in September 2020 at the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20). Our submission received a mention as an exceptional...

Conferences/Publication

July 11, 2020

Opening of DIGAREC In-Game Photo Gallery, July 16, 2020, 6 pm CET

Opening of the real virtual DIGAREC In-Game Photo Gallery which shows a number of in-game photographical works which were produced by students of European Media Studies – a joint program of University of Potsdam and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The exhibition presents the results of their practical explorations of the medium of in-game photography as participants of three university seminars on the subject focusing on different topics: “Medial Environments, Milieus and Landscapes” (class of 2016), “Machines_ _Ethics; _Poetry; _Politics; _Poetics” (class of 2018), “Media Reflexivity” (class of 2019/20). This exhibition exists only online and makes use of the virtual meeting tool Mozilla Hubs. It is designed by Lars Pinkwart and curated by Sebastian Möring.

Exhibitions/News/Projects/Research/Teaching

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