Actual historical storytelling in videogame cybertexts: strategies of memorial media rhetoric

Abstract

The article is devoted to the practice of popular historical storytelling, implemented within the framework of video-game media texts, which today is a noticeable part of the discursive space of public history. The article emphasizes the significant role of non-academic historical texts in the formation of sustainable content structures of public historical consciousness. The nature of the formal-linguistic and conceptual-content adaptation of historical narratives to the semiotic framework of video game media rhetoric is considered. The fundamental differences in the architectonics of video-game storytelling and textual-narrative “stories about the past” are revealed.