Pieter Van den Heede

Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...

#gamestudies #gamingthepast

Ik zou hem afleiden met een andere hulpvraag.

Will relate

Kijk, daar zou je dan wel weer een legitieme grens kunnen trekken

Ja! We zijn een brede en blijmoedige familie

Ok, maar was je hoofd nou aan het draaien toen deze foto genomen werd?

Here's how I put it on the Ezra Klein Show four years ago:

"The news system isn’t really designed for public understanding. It’s designed to produce new content every day." www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/p...

Which is to say: any "fix" has to be systemic too.

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So THIS is what your friendship theory amounts to, tsk tsk

This will certainly be a book for my shelf.

Geschiedenis in het publiek. Interview met Tina De Gendt De Gentse historica Tina De Gendt onderzoekt de geschiedenis van superdiverse wijken, samen met de inwoners van die wijken. Ze ziet erfgoed als een forum voor democratische onderhandeling en vertre…

Ik had een leuk en inspirerend gesprek met historica Tina De Gendt, over publieksgeschiedenis, erfgoed als forum voor democratische onderhandeling en wandelen als methode, te lezen op @overdemuur.bsky.social:
overdemuur.org/geschiedenis...

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Simulacra

Simulacra everywhere

Ik begrijp oprecht niet dat het zomaar op tv kan.

Nog los van het feit dat etnische zuivering besproken wordt als 'business as usual', alsof het op zichzelf al geen grove misdaad tegen de menselijkheid is:

Evian, 1938? Doet bij Marbe geen belletje rinkelen?

Zo iemand is haar ziel kwijt.

To me, this is Digital Humanities

Perhaps a bit peculiar to add to my own thread, but:

I came across this one by Kristine Jørgensen:

dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

It's very much what I'm looking for; how engaging with fictions can recalibrate one's emotional, moral,... state.

(I'll ping @torillelvira.bsky.social too perhaps :))

Thanks @bowmanspartan.bsky.social !

For sure, thanks Rowan! Let's talk soon :-)

Thank you so much, @nishadevasia.bsky.social ! Will do :-)

Thanks so much @wytang.bsky.social , this helps a ton 😊
If I can help with anything in any way at some point, let me know!

Thank you so much Elisa!
If you need anything, do feel free to ping me as well 😊

Hihi yes 😊😍

Thank you so much! 😊

Hmm...

Perhaps, ping @elisamekler.bsky.social ?

(You're one of the first people I'm thinking of :) )

This turtoise sounds like the best spirit animal ❤️

Oh, haha, I hadn't even paid attention to those earlier...

The song below is part of my writing soundtrack atm, but also:

The cover art for James Last's 1970s Polka Party albums are mindblowingly awetastic, let's be honest here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhk...

Misty completing one of her first true tests as Pokemon trainer, and

'What This Means For Our Understanding Of Early Medieval Christian Monastic Life'

Question to the BlueSky game studies-crowd!

What are some of the best studies you know about the psychological, emotional and cognitive engagement of players with game fictions?

I'm thinking of books by @kcisbister.bsky.social , Aubrey Anable and some others, but any other key recommendations?