by Peter Krapp
about Peter Krapp
Peter Krapp is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Department of Informatics and helped found a Computer Game Science degree. He is the author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory and of Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture, as well as an editor of the Handbook Language-Culture-Communication and Medium Cool.
Sid Meier’s Civilization
Abstract: In a simulation game like Sid Meier’s Civilization that spans centuries of game time, Peter Krapp contends that the series’ realism is not anchored in a sense of historical accuracy but, instead, offers a playful exploration through abstract representations of what leads to the rise and fall of empires.