Niklas Schrape

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Niklas Schrape is a PostDoc of both, the Centre for Digital Cultures and the MECS. He holds a double position at the Gamification Lab and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS). From 2001-2002, he studied Communications, Psychology and Sociology at FU Berlin, and from 2002-2007 Social and Economic Communications at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). He spent an abroad semester at the International Filmschool of Wales in Newport, UK. Between 2007 and 2011, Niklas finished his PhD thesis in Media Studies at Film and Television University Potsdam-Babelsberg (HFF) as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In 2012, he published his thesis at Campus Verlag under the title “Die Rhetorik von Computerspielen. Wie politische Spiele überzeugen” (The Rhetoric of Computer Games. How Political Games Persuade). His current research interest encompass the consequences of gamification on our understanding of social reality, the construction of validity in scientific simulations, and the relationship between simulation and gamification.

Forschungsgebiete

• Gamifcation
• Scientific Computer Simulations
• Rhetoric in Computer Games
• Games as Media of Expression

Lehrgebiete

• Game Studies