Inspecting Video Game Historiography Through Critical Lens: Etymology of the First-Person Shooter Genre
by Carl TherrienAbstract:
Documenting, understanding and transcoding the history of games into narrative form is a daunting task. Confronted with such an enormous quantity of traces, historians are naturally inclined to rely on testimonies and subjective accounts for some aspects of their narrative. As Paul Ricoeur pointed out, voluntary witnesses must be confronted with involuntary witnesses