Carolin Becklas

• Master of Arts
• PhD Student at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Digital games are increasingly used as innovative tools for climate change communication. Our study uses the example of Eco to analyse, with the help of a validated set of criteria, how commercial games communicate climate change and the science behind it, which options for action are suggested to the player and how the interplay of the three pilla...

Media representations of global warming repeatedly paint a grim picture of our collective future on a climate changed planet. As sea levels rise, temperatures become unbearable, and extreme weather events occur more often, tens of millions of people could seek refuge in the Global North. Current research highlights how the media representations of...

Digital games are socially produced and socially productive. Through their mechanical, narrative, and audiovisual design, ecogames shape and are shaped by a broader climate change discourse. These virtual ecosystems provide information about what meanings cultures and social groups attached to a changing natural world at a given time and what actio...

This contribution demonstrates how online video games can be used not only to teach sustainability, but also to help students experience immediate results of their decisions. With regard to climate change, digital games can overcome the abstractness of climate change through simulating complex real-world experiences through virtual processes. This...

Digital games are increasingly used as innovative tools for climate change communication. However, research in this area has so far focused on free online games, which is why our paper expands the existing corpus to include commercial, off-the-shelf games. Our study uses the example of Eco to analyse, with the help of a validated set of criteria, h...