dr. L.A.W.J. (Lars) de Wildt
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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 Western game developers sold religion to secular
audiences; how online platforms birth conspiracy theories; and how
Western videogames adapt to Chinese players and policies.
His first book, The
Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with
Religion was published Open Access with Amsterdam
University Press. Lars was part of the AHRC-funded project "Everything
Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet,"
was previously a (visiting) researcher at the universities of
Leuven, Bremen, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Montréal, and
Deakin, and is working on a project about how the hegemonic
worldviews of Western videogames adapt to Chinese players and
policies.
For more, see larsdewildt.eu or Google
scholar.