Refuge from Reality – An Essay on Digital Life

December 22 2015

With the project Digital Life, the Fritt Ord Foundation has invited the public to a debate on the place of computer games in culture and society. In addition to a series of events in the winter 2015/2016, the project includes of an essay competition with a deadline for entries on Friday, 15 April.

Help influence how gaming culture is covered in the public space. The texts can deal with anything from the history of gaming media, tools and potential, to personal experiences and experience of games and gaming.

Prompted by the Fritt Ord Foundation, Martin Bergesen has written a personal text about computer games and his own childhood. It serves as a model for how the assignment can be done. You can either be inspired by “”http://digitaleliv.no/virkelighetsflukten/“>Refuge from Reality” in form and content, or you can opt to move in entirely different directions when you write your entry.

Read more about the call for entries on http://digitaleliv.no.

Twelve texts will be selected for a digital anthology. They will also be given eternal life by professional illustrators. The best text will win NOK 25 000, while the other texts selected will win NOK 5 000.

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