Francesco Toniolo | Play - The Games Festival

Author, will be attending Play 2026

Francesco Toniolo is an adjunct lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), SSML Carlo Bo, and several other universities and academic institutions.

He has been working for years in video game culture and has published numerous books on the subject, including PlayHer. Female Representations in Video Games (Edizioni Tlon, 2025), co-authored with Giulia Martino. He writes a weekly column for the newspaper Libertà and occasionally collaborates with La Lettura (the cultural supplement of Corriere della Sera) and FinalRound.

He also contributed to the founding of Cotoletta8bit and Imola Comics & Games.

PlayHer. Womens' representations in video games

Who are the women that populate video games? And what do they tell us about ourselves, our imagination, and society?From Princess Zelda to the witch Bayonetta, from the heroines of Mass Effect to the creatures of dystopian and fantastical worlds, PlayHer explores female roles and representations that intertwine with ancient myths, fairy tales, hist...

Pad.15 G43 - Game Science sabato 23ore 12:30

TIPOLOGIA: Talk and Panel

TARGET: adults

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