TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aguirre Quiroga,Stefan
TI  - White Mythic Space: Racism, the First World War, and ›Battlefield 1‹ 
T2  - Video Games and the Humanities ,
SN  - 9783110729849
AV  - HM851 .A385 2022
U1  - 793.920285536 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - München, Wien : 
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 
KW  - Online hate speech
KW  - Racism
KW  - Video games
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Erster Weltkrieg
KW  - Historisches Gedächtnis
KW  - Kollektives Gedächtnis
KW  - Rassismus
KW  - Videospiele
KW  - HISTORY / Study & Teaching
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - First World War
KW  - Historical memory
KW  - Video Games
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Tables and Figures --; Introduction --; Between Myth and History --; Defending the White Mythic Space --; Aftermath, Conclusion, and Future --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the target of an online racist backlash that targeted the game's inclusion of soldiers of color. Across social media and online communities, players loudly proclaimed the historical inaccuracy of black soldiers in the game and called for changes to be made that correct what they considered to be a mistake that was influenced by a supposed political agenda. Through the introduction of the theoretical framework of the ‘White Mythic Space’, this book seeks to investigate the reasons behind the racist rejection of soldiers of color by Battlefield 1 players in order to answer the question: Why do individuals reject the presence of people of African descent in popular representations of history?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110729306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110729306/original
ER  -