No. #13 (2020): Special Issue “Democracy Dies Playfully. (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games”

edited by Eugen Pfister, Tobias Winnerling and Felix Zimmermann

Published: 2020-12-21

Introduction

• Democracy Dies playfully. Three Questions – Introductory Thoughts on the Papers Assembled and Beyond

  Eugen Pfister, Tobias Winnerling, Felix Zimmermann

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Peer-reviewed Articles

• Discrepancy Detected. Operationalizing Immigration and Borderzone Policy in Papers, Please

  David Kocik

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• Autocracy for the People. Modes of response-able Action and the Management of Demise in Frostpunk

  Lars Dolkemeyer

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• Turning Votes into Victory Points. Politics in Modern Board Games

  Torben Quasdorf

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• The Face of Authority through Sid Meier's Civilization Series

  Ruth García Martín, Begoña Cadiñanos Martinez, Pablo Martín Domínguez

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• The Missing Memorial: The Division 2 and the Politics of Memory

  Joseph Meyer

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• Play America Great Again. Manifestations of Americanness in Cold War Themed Video Games

  Regina Seiwald

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• Videogames about Politics as States of Exception

  Yu Hao

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• Likers Get Liked. Platform Capitalism and the Precariat in Death Stranding

  Ryan House

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• Imperialism and Fascism Intertwined. A Materialist Analysis of the Games Industry and Reactionary Gamers

  Emil Lundedal Hammar

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• It Was Just a Joke. Demagoguery, Humor, and Video Game Streaming

  Jacob Euteneuer, Josiah Meints

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• At the Edge of Utopia. Esports, Neoliberalism and the Gamer Culture’s Descent into Madness

  Thiago Falcão, Daniel Marques, Ivan Mussa, Tarcízio Macedo

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• Code of Resistance. On the Potential of Digital Games and Game Jams for Civic Education

  Michael Laumer, Marcel Kabaum

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Reports

• Projekt CH+ Games for Democracy. User-Friendly Political Self-Education through Entertainment Design

  Sophie Walker

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Interviews

• Interview with Jörg Friedrich on Procedural Rhetoric in his Game Through the Darkest of Times

  Elisa Budian

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Reviews

• Wir sind das Volk! Agitprop between East and West Germany

  Anton Oehmsen-Clark

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