Video Games Discourses Analysis 03-AP-VGDA

Course learning content:

Explanation of Video Games Discourse Analysis – definitions, categories, contexts, history, textual and discursive structures of virtual worlds

Presentation of Video Games as the natural realm of important for the contemporary Europe discourses – between digital and non-digital traditions.

Between theory and interpretation: transmedia narratology, ecocriticism, post colonialism, hermeneutics, poststructuralism, semiotics.

The „new” categories of discourses: interactions, virtual reality, avatar, remediation, immersion, interface.

Relations between real and virtual Europe – case studies.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant):