With their increasing popularity, digital games have come to stage notions of history and the past for ever broader circles of recipients, thereby shaping what is understood, interpreted, and negotiated as history in popular contexts. Digital games with historical settings not only adopt already successfully popularized and widely mediated images of history. They also integrate current social debates into the historical worlds they construct and recreate. Using three highly popular representatives of the medium as examples, this article examines how the debates about diversity and the representation of People of Color, which have intensified in recent years, inscribe a particular social self-image into the mediated staging of history and thus offer new perspectives on the past.

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对过去的新看法？具有历史背景的流行数字游戏的多样性

随着越来越受欢迎，数字游戏已经为更广泛的接受者圈子展示了历史和过去的概念，从而塑造了流行背景下被理解、解释和协商的历史。具有历史背景的数字游戏不仅采用已经成功普及和广泛传播的历史图像。他们还将当前的社会辩论整合到他们构建和重建的历史世界中。本文以媒体的三个非常受欢迎的代表为例，探讨了近年来愈演愈烈的关于多样性和有色人种代表性的争论如何将特定的社会自我形象铭刻在历史的中介分期中，从而提供对过去的新看法。