Online Massively Multiplayer Games and their impact on students’ historical culture
Abstract
Online Massively Multiplayer Games have developed an impactful way of contacting young people with the historical past. The article presents an investigation of two OMM games with historical content on fourth-year students of the History department of the Ionian University. The main purpose is to determine the impact they had on students’ historical culture, how History students perceive the historical past and interact with it in Massively Multiplayer Online Game environments. The game software and then the students’ experience of participating in the games were studied through pre- and post-game questionnaires and focused interviews. The results of the research highlight the influence that games have on young people, even in those cases where they have had no previous contact with them.
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Stouraitis, E. (2024). Online Massively Multiplayer Games and their impact on students’ historical culture. Αutomaton: Journal of Digital Media and Culture, 3(1), 37–64. https://doi.org/10.12681/automaton.38845
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