{"id":3380,"date":"2022-01-31T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:47:47","slug":"the-digital-d-day-conference-session-about-world-war-ii-and-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"The digital D-day &#8212; Conference session about world war II and computer games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 9-10 Ume\u00e5 University arranged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/en\/events\/digital-history-in-sweden_10371139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the conference &#8221;Digital History in Sweden&#8221;<\/a> in which Henrik Arnstad participated, representing S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University, presenting the lecture &#8221;The digital D-day: World War II, propaganda and computer games 1991\u20132021&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This lecture explores the continuity of the cold war American propaganda effort in computer games in the post-cold war era 1991-2021. The aim is to detect changes, differences and continuity regarding political discourse surrounding the D-day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 (operation Overlord).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Thomson writes in \u201dMilitary Computer Games and the New American Militarism\u201d (2008):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In theorising propaganda purely in terms of distortion and manipulation, critics of computer games have ignored the most fundamental of questions concerning propaganda, <em>why is it to be believed<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding post-cold war changes in propaganda and popular culture it can be stated that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 1990\u2019s saw renewed American military confidence as the USA released itself from the Vietnam war trauma during the Gulf war of 1990-1991.<\/li><li>At the same time, computer games began to co-exist with movies as important channels for historical consciousness.<\/li><li>Regardless of medium, Hitler was defeated by an American GI-Joe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The game \u201dMedal of Honor: Allied Assault\u201d (EA) in 2002 marked a huge shift in WW2-computer games about the D-day landings of 1944. The D-day games became standardised. And unlike the challenging development in post-1968 war movies, the post cold war computer games regarding World War II quickly became a conservative arena in order to be commercially successful, thus being a neo-conservative field of digital popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Digital-D-day.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My presentation as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-1536x1151.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-2048x1535.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-10x7.png 10w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-432x324.png 432w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-396x297.png 396w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-1120x839.png 1120w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-660x495.png 660w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-294x220.png 294w, https:\/\/www.tricorder.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skarmavbild-2022-01-31-kl.-09.45.22-1320x989.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 91vw, (max-width: 900px) 600px, (max-width: 1060px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 520px, (max-width: 1400px) 43vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 9-10 Ume\u00e5 University arranged the conference &#8221;Digital History in Sweden&#8221; in which Henrik Arnstad participated, representing S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University, presenting the lecture &#8221;The digital D-day: World War II, propaganda and computer games 1991\u20132021&#8221;: This lecture explores the continuity of the cold war American propaganda effort in computer games in the post-cold war era 1991-2021. 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