{"id":80,"date":"2025-08-27T15:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/?p=80"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:41:24","slug":"introductions-dr-esther-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/introductions-dr-esther-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductions: Dr. Esther Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Esther Wright is Senior Lecturer in Digital History, and works in the field of Historical Game Studies. She researches the born-digital marketing strategies of historical video game developers, and the ways that these marketing discourses aim to construct claims for &#8220;historical authenticity&#8221; at the digital margins of contemporary video games.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more on <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.cardiff.ac.uk\/staff\/wrighte11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esther&#8217;s Cardiff University staff profile<\/a>, and hear more in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Addressing the big challenges in a digitised world\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKluV5dV6gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Esther Wright is Senior Lecturer in Digital History, and works in the field of Historical Game Studies. She researches the born-digital marketing strategies of historical video game developers, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,40,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-methods","category-introductions","category-research","category-video-games-research"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}