How do video games portray the environment? a video essay

This video explores how video games portray the environment, and how these depictions uncover themes including technogaianism, futurism, and the Mother Gaia hypothesis.

Made for Video Games & Learning (EDUC 333) at the University of Michigan: https://marsal.umich.edu/academics-admissions/course-syllabi/educ-333

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