Nils Bühler – Research Blog
This section of the blog covers my research activities: news about publications, conference talks, projects, and other academic work.
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Latest Research Posts
Article in AKGWDS Jubilee Volume
The Working Group on Humanities Research and Digital Games (Arbeitskreis Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele, AKGWDS) has turned 10 years old and will release a jubilee volume to mark this occasion. The volume looks back at the group's most important topics of debate. I was invited to reflect on the relationship between history and digital games in these debates: What role did history in games, the history of games, and the history of game contexts play? The article is now available as an article in the AKGWDS blog.
Contribution to Anthology on Game History/Histories
The conference proceedings Spielgeschichte(n): Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive (Game History/Histories: Games and Game Studies in Media Cultural Historical Perspective) have just been published by transcript. In my contribution, I discuss the founding myth of Game Studies, according to which research and society did not seriously and impartially engage with digital games before 2001 (the self-proclaimed founding year of Game Studies). I discuss the function this myth had and in part still has for Game Studies, and demonstrate the extent to which it is indeed a myth.
Talk at the GfM annual gathering 2025
From 16 to 19 September 2025, the Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies took place in Paderborn. In the panel of the AG Games, which was moderated by Jana Hecktor, I had the opportunity to present alongside Franziska Ascher, Theresa Krampe and Sebastian R. Richter on the (wonderfully named) main topic 'Das hat ein Nachspiel! Computerspiele im soziokulturellen Kontext‘. The panel gave me the opportunity to briefly present my dissertation. Thank you very much for the numerous responses!