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

View 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
    34
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/400

Peer-reviewed Articles

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

    David Kocik
    29
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/401

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

    Lars Dolkemeyer
    39
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/402

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

    Torben Quasdorf
    35
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/403

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

    Ruth García Martín, Begoña Cadiñanos Martinez, Pablo Martín Domínguez
    36
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/404

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

    Joseph Meyer
    49
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/405

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

    Regina Seiwald
    34
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/406

  • Videogames about Politics as States of Exception

    Yu Hao
    33
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/407

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

    Ryan House
    27
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/408

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

    Emil Lundedal Hammar
    41
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/409

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

    Jacob Euteneuer, Josiah Meints
    24
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/410

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

    Thiago Falcão, Daniel Marques, Ivan Mussa, Tarcízio Macedo
    38
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/411

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

    Michael Laumer, Marcel Kabaum
    37
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/412

Reports

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

    Sophie Walker
    35
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/413

Interviews

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

    Elisa Budian
    16
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/414

Reviews

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

    Anton Oehmsen-Clark
    11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/415