The phenomenon of computer games: the historiographical aspect

2026/3(46)

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HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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APPLIED RESEARCH

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Network culture in the context of two approaches to research issues

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INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

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International and foreign models for the preservation of immovable cultural heritage: a comparative legal and cultural analysis

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Cultural heritage in actual UNESCO strategy

MUSEOLOGY

Pleshchenko V.

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DOI 10.34685/HI.2022.37.70.004

Ovchinnikov V.

Abstract. The article considers the representation of the phenomenon of computer games as one of the types of auditory-visualized arts, the peculiarities of its perception and analysis on the example of those historiographical traditions that have developed in the field of English-speaking and Russian-speaking segments of cultural science. In addition, the framework of those philosophical connotations that are applicable when considering virtualized game content, characterized, among other things, as a special type of text - cybertext, is outlined. The author pays attention to the possibility of considering the space of a computer game as a specific form of simulation of the historical process.

Key words: game universe, cybertext, media, video games, procedural rhetoric.

Ovchinnikov Vladimir Mikhailovich
PhD in History, Associate Professor,
Smolensk Regional Institute for the Development of Education (Smolensk)
Email: Benkey1985@yandex.ru

Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2022/4(31)

Url: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/550.html

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Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

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Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

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