Gaming is one of the most consumed forms of media globally making it an omportant space from to explore human-animal relations. In this episode, media scholars Michael Rübsamen, Osvaldo Cleger, and Keung Yoon Bae discuss the interconnections of gaming, representation, and identity and what the significance of this might be for considerations of animals. 

 

Date Recorded: 3 February 2025 

Featured: 

• The Witcher 
• Thoughts towards an Ontology of Play by Eugene Fink 
• Homo Ludens: A Study of Play Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
• Why Animals can’t get enough of touch screen technology by Jason Goldman
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Westworld
• Grand Theft Auto
• Assassin’s Creed
• Disco Elysium
• Death Stranding 
• Borderlands
• The Lend of Zelda
• Unravel
• Dungeons and Dragons

 

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