dr. L.A.W.J. (Lars) de Wildt

Lars de Wildt studies how media cultures and industries make contemporary worldviews. Examples are how media industries construct 'global' culture and how local audiences consume it; how online conspiracy theorists talk among themselves; and how Western game developers sold religion to secular audiences.

His first book, The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion was published Open Access with Amsterdam University Press. Lars is currently part of the AHRC-funded project "Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet," and is working on a project about Western developers' imaginations of Chinese gaming audiences.

For more, see larsdewildt.eu or Linktree.