Living the Life of a Refugee: Games and VR for Change with Joost Raessens

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In the last few years, games and VR for change have encouraged support, sympathy, and action for a variety of migration and refugee issues. In this talk, I analyze and compare the virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (Iñárritu 2017) and the digital game The Migrant Trail (Gigantic Mechanic 2014), as part of the multimedia project The Undocumented (Williams 2013). I will show how both digital media examples use semi-fictionalized ethnographies to allow their users to thoroughly experience a fragment of Mexican and Central American refugees’ and migrant’s personal journeys and life stories.

Speakers:
Joost Raessens (Full Professor and Chair of Media Theory, Utrecht Center for Game Research, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)



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