{"id":28,"date":"2026-01-23T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:55:57","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DiGRA Chapter for German-speaking Countries<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>(Austria, Germany, Switzerland)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our intention is to develop a DiGRA chapter to represent Europe\u2019s German-speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland and to create an infrastructure to support conferences, research and publications representing the Chapter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game Studies in German-speaking Countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been an academic and artistic discourse on computer- and videogames since the late 1990s in the German-speaking countries of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Quite a few exhibitions and experimental projects employed epistemic games as tools for knowledge construction. Early texts on videogame cultures, philosophical and sociological issues of computer games and a vivid artistic practice with the medium of computer games have been well recognized within the country but have often not achieved international recognition. Even the texts that are now considered to be classics for German media studies have never been translated into English.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for a language-specific culture of thought on computer games might be found in the specificities of German media studies, philosophy and critical theory. Points of departure for German media studies can be identified in notions of \u201cmaterialities of communication\u201d combined with an emphasis on discourse analysis regarding historical research on the one hand and critical theory of the \u201cFrankfurt School\u201d of thought (especially Adorno and Benjamin) on the other hand. Perspectives of historical epistemology and material culture and affordances in game design are current additions to the academic discussion on the subject matter as well as an emphasis on the links between game studies and other disciplines. What combines these approaches is their shared assumption, that perception is historically constructed and therefore media are not neutral transmitters but constitutive shapers of their \u201cmessage\u201d. It is this constitutive aspect of media, their mediality, that is at the core of German media studies and in turn the kind of game studies practiced here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DiGRA Chapter for German-speaking Countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) Our intention is to develop a DiGRA chapter to represent Europe\u2019s German-speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland and to create an infrastructure to support conferences, research and publications representing the Chapter. Game <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/mission\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativegames.org.uk\/DACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}