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Digital Iran: Anticolonial and Imperial Narratives of Iran in Video Games
Video games are not only popular forms of entertainment for people across nations, gender, social class, and age, but they are also powerful means through which identities are constructed, contested, and expressed. Through audiovisual analysis of aesthetics and affect, Digital Iran blog will examine narratives and counternarratives of Iranian culture and identity in video games.
The RA Reflects, Part 2
One of my favorite aspects of live-streaming myself playing…
The RA Reflects, Part 1
My experiences streaming and the potential of Twitch as…
Digital Iran: Soft Power and Affect in Video Games
*Published and peer-reviewed article available at DOI: 10.21428/f1f23564.3d7610e0 With…
Prince of Persia and Queering the Near East
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) invokes…
Battlefield 3: The Affective Dimensions of A Virtual Middle East
Battlefield 3 is a first person shooter (FPS) set…
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Accuracy and nuance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aOuV-koCsw&t=29s 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is…
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