Together with my colleaque Gabriele Hooffacker (HTWK Leipzig), the first volume of the new series „Leipziger Beiträge zur Spielekultur“ has been published at Springer: Gaming in Germany and especially in Saxony – quo vadis? Playful Work, Game Thinking, Gamification – just Buzzwords? And what is transmedial storytelling? The volume brings together the contributions of the weiterlesen…
Heute wurde das Gutachten der HTWK Leipzig zu Potenzialen der Games-Branche in Sachsen im Auftrag des Leipziger Wirtschaftsdezernates von meiner Kollegin Prof. Dr. Gabriele Hooffacker und mir als erstes Gutachten dieser Art überhaupt vorgelegt. Der Schwerpunkt der sächsischen Games-Szene liegt demnach in Leipzig. Das ergab eine systematische Befragung von Beschäftigten der Games-Branche in Sachsen. Die weiterlesen…
My talk on „Gaming in Sachsen – Quo vadis?“ in the really challenging pecha kucha style at the Science MashUp 2020 during the „Lange Nacht der Computerspiele“ at the HTWK Hochschule Leipzig has been recorded on Youtube. In June 2020, together with my co-editor Gabriele Hooffacker, the symposium’s anthology will be puiblished at Springer VS.
Recently, the Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (SLPB) interviewed me about video games for their latest issue of #wtf?! – Wissen, Thesen, Fakten. In a communication science perspective, video games are a modern interpretation of fairy tales. weiterlesen…
I am happy to announce that the media blog FLURFUNK recently covered the beginning of our scientific survvey „Media Education 2020“ researching the peoples needs for offerings in the field of media literacy.
Come, See, Play. That is the claim of the special exhibition I’ve designed the past months. „Aufbruch ins Abenteuer. Die virtuelle Wetl der Computerspiele“ at Castle Hartenfels (Torgau), which was ceremonially opened on December 16, 2019, with a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Wimmer (University of Augsburg) and an introduction on the relevance of weiterlesen…
In early December 2019, i’ve had the oppurtunity to talk again about a prolific area of research that I am especially interested in: sustainability. The question (and the answer) „Warum der Journalismus mit seinen Standards unsere Demokratie gefährdet und keine Orientierung in einer sich verändernden (Um-) Welt bietet. “ (Why journalism endangers our democracy with weiterlesen…
Despite rainy days in November in Lugano (CH), the presented study at the ECREA 2018 on public television news coverage on video games in Germany between 2009 and 2018 ganined much audience attention and some interesting follow-up ideas.
In June 2018, I’ve presented current results in a talk of a content analysis of the public relations (PR) activities of an environmental action group against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at the Baltic Sea. The study analyzed how the mass media covered the activities of „Erdöl Barth“ nationwide. Eugene, Oregon (USA) was a perfect and inspiring weiterlesen…