This article is about textual analysis, methodology, and representations (of bodies, identities
and social groups) in digital games. The issues under consideration include textual analysis …

Close reading is a technique from literary theory that has evolved over the years since its
early formulations by John Crowe Ransom and the other “New Critics” in the late 1930s and …

This paper identifies a significant gap in existing work within the field of educational
technology—the failure to explain technology theoretically—and proposes an agenda for …

This study interrogates if newsgames are meaningful supplements to already existing forms
of journalism. Using the case of refugee and migrant issues, this study examines how the …

This paper focuses on representations of able bodies and disability within Dead Space. The
method used is textual analysis. The inquiry is shaped by two essays in particular: Williams's …

Digital games have matured substantially as a narrative medium in the last decade.
However, there is still much work to be done to more fully understand the poetics of story …

El auge de la difusión de las noticias falsas y su viralización se han convertido en uno de
los grandes desafíos comunicativos del siglo XXI ante la dificultad de establecer fórmulas …

Games often encourage players to feel empathy for characters or scenarios by design.
However, the term 'empathy'is often misunderstood and used in a variety of contexts as a …

This paper deals with play as an important methodological issue when studying games as
texts, and is intended as a practical methodological guide. After considering text as both the …

As a media form entwined in the US military-industrial complex, video games continue to
celebrate imperialist imagery and Western-centric narratives of the great white explorer …