dr. L.A.W.J. (Lars) de Wildt

Assistant Professor Media Studies

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Lars de Wildt studies how media cultures and industries shape contemporary worldviews.

His NWO-funded Veni project "Reorienting Global Gaming" (2025–2029) studies how Western games adapt to Chinese worldviews; and his first book, The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion (2023, Open Access) studied how Western game developers sold religion to secular audiences. Lars was previously part (2021-2024) of the AHRC-funded project "Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet." He has been a (visiting) researcher at the universities of Leuven, Heidelberg, Bremen, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Montréal, and Deakin.

For more, see larsdewildt.eu or Google Scholar.

Publicaties

The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion

de Wildt, L., 19-apr.-2023, Amsterdam University Press. 138 blz. (Games and Play in Contemporary Culture and Society)

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Grieving World of Warcraft’s Chinese Server Shutdown

Xu, H. & de Wildt, L., 20-nov.-2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Media and China.

Onderzoeksoutput: Article › › peer review

(Book Review) The avatar faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games By Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp.

de Wildt, L., 10-apr.-2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: American Ethnologist.

Onderzoeksoutput ›

Hidden Monsters: Conspiracy Aesthetics in Video Games

de Wildt, L., 14-jan.-2025, Monstrosity in Games and Play: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Monstrous in Contemporary Cultures. Stang, S., Meriläinen, M., Blom, J. & Hassan, L. (uitgave). Amsterdam University Press, blz. 163-181 19 blz. (Games and Play).

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Encoding/Decoding Entertainment Media

de Wildt, L., Grusauskaite, K. & Aupers, S., 7-okt.-2024, Entertainment Media and Communication. Bowman, N. D. (uitgave). De Gruyter Mouton, blz. 85-100 16 blz. (Handbooks of Communication Science; vol. 20).

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Participatory Conspiracy Culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit

de Wildt, L. & Aupers, S., feb.-2024, In: Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 30, 1, blz. 329-346 18 blz.

Onderzoeksoutput: Article › › peer review

Video-Game Religion beyond the Anthropocene

de Wildt, L., 19-aug.-2024, End-Game: Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture. DiTommaso, L., Crossley, J., Lockhart, A. & Wagner, R. (uitgave). De Gruyter, blz. 385-400 16 blz. (Video Games and the Humanities; vol. 16).

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Breaking Barriers: The Emergence of a Videogame Culture and Industry in the Arab World

Šisler, V., de Wildt, L. & Abbas, S., 9-jun.-2023, Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. Khalil, J. F., Khiabany, G., Guaaybess, T. & Yesil, B. (uitgave). Wiley-Blackwell, blz. 300-312 13 blz. (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research).

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Conclusion: Pop Theology

de Wildt, L., 19-apr.-2023, The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion. Amsterdam University Press, blz. 127-154 28 blz. (Games and Play in Contemporary Culture and Society).

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

Franchised Esotericism: Religion as a Marketing Strategy for the Assassin’s Creed Franchise

de Wildt, L., 27-nov.-2023, Fictional Practices of Spirituality: Vol. 1: Interactive Media. Marcato, L. & Felix, S. (uitgave). Transcript Verlag / Columbia University Press, Vol. 1. blz. 301-318 18 blz.

Onderzoeksoutput › › peer review

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