Outputs (4)

Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice (2024)
Book Chapter
Donald, I., Austin, H., & Pittner, F. Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice. In Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics since 1914

This abstract discusses how war comics portray the historical record through a theoretical and conceptual textual model - the 3A Framework (3AF) which considers the representation of historical accuracy, authenticity and account (Donald & Reid, 2023)... Read More about Merging Fact & Fiction in War Comics: Diversity, Identity and Social Injustice.

‘It’s NOT in the Game’ – Commemoration and Commerce in EA Sports FIFA Franchise (2024)
Book Chapter
Donald, I. ‘It’s NOT in the Game’ – Commemoration and Commerce in EA Sports FIFA Franchise. In The Interactive Past Re-Imagined: New Horizons of Video Games, History, and Archaeology. Sidestone Press

In 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the world of virtual football as the licensing agreement between EA Sports and FIFA (the governing body of football) that had existed since 1993 came to an end and it was announced that going forward FIFA (the gam... Read More about ‘It’s NOT in the Game’ – Commemoration and Commerce in EA Sports FIFA Franchise.

View from the (Virtual) Terraces: Football Fandom in Videogames (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donald, I., & Reid, A. (2024, September). View from the (Virtual) Terraces: Football Fandom in Videogames. Presented at Video Game Cultures, Birmingham City University

Other is a concept that is fundamental to sports: the other team, other player(s), other fans. Football fans share a camaraderie and can enthuse a tribalism (Mangan, 1996) that is difficult to understand and replicate in the virtual world. Yet, that... Read More about View from the (Virtual) Terraces: Football Fandom in Videogames.

Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donald, I. (2024, July). Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise. Presented at DiGRA 2024, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

The FIFA series (now known as EA Sports FC) of video games are football (soccer) sports simulation games that claim to provide “unrivaled authenticity” for fans (Escaravage and Ludlow 2023). EA releases a new version annually and each iteration routi... Read More about Playable Archive: The management of data in the FIFA/EA Sports franchise.