Projects from Julia Quast
Faculty of Arts and Humanities ? Historisches Institut ? Contemporary History
Let's Play History! History between Gaming and Content Creation
The “Let's Play History!” project is the first in the German-speaking world to focus on the concept of streaming and playing historical computer games. While computer games with historical content are already the subject of intensive research, we want to place the commentary level at the center of the discussion.
The conference brings together ...
Duration: 10/2025 - 10/2025
World War Two and its (un-)profitability
The project focuses on historical narratives as they are depicted on YouTube. YouTube is a so-called attention-economy as its core asset is the attention of its audience, which they in turn sell to advertisers. This project aims to shed light on the production conditions and setting, how the necessity for selling a (historical) product shapes these ...
Duration: 11/2023 - 10/2026