Martin Hennig is team leader in the field of digital cultures and media ethics at the University of Tübingen’s International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW). He worked as a postdoc at the Research Training Group “Privacy and Digitalization” and substituted the Chair of Media and Cultural Studies (focus: Digital Cultures) at the University of Passau. His research topics include digital cultures, media ethics, semiotics, narratology, culture and mentalities, technology discourses and imaginative constructions.

He is co-editor of the anthology series Spielzeichen (Spielzeichen I [vwh 2016]; Spielzeichen II. Raumspiele – Spielräume [vwh 2018]; Spielzeichen III. Kulturen im Computerspiel / Kulturen des Computerspiels [vwh 2020]; Spielzeichen IV. Genres [vwh 2023]).

Further Publications in game studies include:

Spielräume als Weltentwürfe. Kulturräume des Videospiels. Schüren 2017.

“Orders of Anti-Illusion: An Analytical Framework for Metareference from a Semiotic Perspective” in Videogames and Metareference: Mapping the Margins of an Interdisciplinary Field. Routledge 2025. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003538592-3/orders-anti-illusion-martin-hennig.

“Playing Intelligence. On Representations and Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Videogames” in Necsus Spring 2020_#Intelligence. https://necsus-ejms.org/playing-intelligence-on-representations-and-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-in-videogames/

For further publications and information see https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/215578.