Design, Healthcare & Society
With the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, hospitals increasingly became the focus of public attention. Few news stories today, whether in newspapers, on television or on social media, can do without explicit images of...
Mit dem Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie rückten Krankenhäuser verstärkt in die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit. Nur wenige Nachrichten, egal ob Zeitungen, Fernsehen oder in Social Media, kommen heute ohne explizite Bilder von belegten Krankenbetten auf Intensivstationen aus....
Für einen Sammelband werden Beiträge zur Erforschung von Epi- und Pandemien in der Populärkultur gesucht.
The streets of Whitechapel were deserted, as were the streets of the London Docks and Southwark. The doors of the houses were locked, the windows partly nailed up with boards. Many houses seemed to...
“Plague Inc.”, a strategy game published as early as 2012, in which you are supposed to destroy mankind as a pathogene in a very instructive way, has climbed the app charts in the course of the Corona pandemic and was banned in China. Reason enough to take a closer look at how illness is designed in this game and what consequences this has for our perception of disease.
In our SNF-Ambizione research project “Horror-Game-Politics” we aim to show that digital games, as an integral part of popular culture, have not only an entertainment function but also a communication function. It is part...
