Seminar Talk 2018-05-09

“Games for the Many and Class Wargames”
Richard Barbrook

The Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine is pleased to announce a Guest Lecture by

Richard Barbrook: “Games for the Many and Class Wargames” – Wednesday, May
9th at 3pm, HIB 100

Richard Barbrook is the digital guru of the UK Labour Party. He helped
create the Corbyn Run game (in support of UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy
Corbyn) which went viral just before the 2017 UK general election. He is a
senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.

Richard Barbrook’s guest appearance at UC Irvine is also supported by the
Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games, IVECG –
http://ivecg.uci.edu

Corbyn Run:
https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-run-video-game-general-election-uk-2017/

Games for the Many:
https://gamesforthemany.org

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/filmandmediastudies/