Lies van Roessel

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | MLU

Wer in frühpädagogischen Einrichtungen die Qualität der Medienerziehung verbessern möchte, sollte auch die Eltern bzw. Erziehungsberechtigten der betreuten Kinder einbe-ziehen-das ist inzwischen eine weithin anerkannte Ansicht. Bislang gibt es jedoch kaum zusammengeführte Erkenntnisse darüber, wie der medienerzieherische Dialog zwischen Kita und Fa...

Video games have entered the cultural mainstream and in terms of economic profits they now rival established entertainment industries such as film or television. As careers in video game development become more common, so do the stories about precarious working conditions and structural inequalities within the industry. Yet, scholars have largely o...

Despite a growing academic interest in in-game monetization, much less attention has been paid to the production context of microtransactions. With this chapter, we aim to address this gap by focusing on the roles and responsibilities related to video game monetization. We answer the titular question of this chapter using a mixed methods approach,...

In: Paidia. Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung (2021). /// Available in full-text (German) on https://www.paidia.de/praktiken-des-free-to-play-spielens-wie-sich-spielerinnen-kostenlose-spiele-und-ingame-kaeufe-aneignen/ /// English abstract: In this paper we look into various practices around free-to-play games and their monetization techniqu...

Kinder werden heute in eine mediatisierte Welt hineingeboren und ihr Alltag ist von Anfang an durch Medien geprägt. Neben den Eltern kommt auch den frühkindlichen Bildungseinrichtungen die wichtige Aufgabe zu, erste mediale Erfahrungen der Kinder aufzugreifen und sie auf einen souveränen Umgang mit Medien vorzubereiten. In den Bildungs- und Erziehu...

This article addresses the tension between inspiration and imitation in game production based on semi-structured interviews with 20 German game professionals. Building on empirical copyright research and game production studies, we look into how game professionals draw the line between illegitimate imitation and accepted inspiration in their daily...

Newsrooms are still searching for ways to manage user comments because of both a desire for professional distance from their audiences and a lack of analytical tools. This paper presents findings from our exploratory, interdisciplinary study in journalism research and computer science that focuses on the algorithmic classification and clustering of...

This article addresses the tension between innovation and imitation in the games industry based on a case study on a cloning conflict. Developing new games necessarily involves adopting existing elements, but recent disputes centering on alleged copying have gained prominence. What are the criteria to delineate legitimate inspiration from cloning?...

In June 2014 the news about an educational game on slavery, called Journey to Freedom, was all over Dutch newspapers and blogs (e.g., Parool, Volkskrant, PocketGamer), indicating the game had been barred from Apple’s App Store. This case is only one out of many rejections of serious games by the App Store. It shows Apple’s refusal to take games ser...

The number of games designed for various applications in healthcare is growing rapidly. However, balancing the needs of an applied game can be a difficult task, especially without a guiding vision or design framework. Here, we propose a philosophical framework inspired by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, which can be used as an approach to de...

In this explorative study, the collaboration and team composition within applied game creation processes is investigated. Applied games are games that are deployed for purposes like training, education, persuasion, physical exercise etc., i.e. all games that bring about effects that are useful outside the context of the game itself. Ten Dutch appli...

This thesis is an account for more attention to computer games as a cultural phenomenon that can be taught about. Due to the overemphasis on computer games as either causes of aggression and addiction, or the new means to educate our curriculum content, an elaborated concept of computer game literacy education, i.e. teaching about computer games, h...