Hybrid event (presential / zoom)
Venue : Room S1, second floor, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris
Organised as part of the seminar Nuclear Knowledges
Speaker:
Carolina Panico, University of Auckland
Discussants:
Benoît Pelopidas and Jana Wattenberg
Abstract :
Carolina Panico examines how nuclear weapons are depicted in popular first-person shooter video games such as Call of Duty, which have so far not been thoroughly explored in the literature. Drawing on feminist poststructuralist theory and situating video games as a site of knowledge production, she examines how gameplay narratives contribute to normalising dominant forms of “knowing” nuclear weapons. Rather than simply fictional or trivial, she argues that representations of nuclear weapons in video games contribute to legitimising the ongoing possession and modernisation of nuclear weapons.
La présentation sera donnée en anglais, cependant les questions en français seront également les bienvenues.
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Scientifics Coordinators : Benoît Pelopidas, Sciences Po-CERI and Sterre van Buuren, Sciences Po-CERI
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