Playing Politics in Digital Spaces

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chouraqui, Frank.

Series:

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital communications--Political aspects.

Digital communications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This book offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike. It will interest media studies, philosophy, cultural studies, games and play studies, and political theory and philosophy.

Contents:

Introducing play and politics : making worlds through platforms and digital media / Frans-Willem Korsten and Sybille Lammes

'Cloud supervisors' : COVID construction vehicles as playful cultural creation versus ludic governmentality / Mengdi Zhu

Playing with technology towards populist governmentality in Turkey / Ergin Bulut and Nazlı Özkan

Politics in highly playful experiences / Leland Masek

Ludologistics and the politics of playful military technologies / Dennis Jansen

Humoring the norm : politics of legal humor / Peter Goodrich

Taken over by the trolls : dark play, trolling, and absorption in Trumpism / Beer Prakken

Red scare girlfriends : language games with the Red Scare podcast, or the ludic logic of online contrarianism / Eleni Maragkou and Idil Galip

This is not a game, learn to play the game : Huizinga’s homo ludens, violence, and the QAnon conspiracy / Nick van Rijn

Digital alchemy as play : Black women domestic workers on Brazilian social media / Francianne dos Santos Velho

All the world's a stage : the ironic worlding of 'Birds aren't real' / Lars de Wildt

The promise of freedom in historical games : the politics of past-play / Angus Mol, Aris Politopoulos and Sybille Lammes

Games to put platforms in their place / Simiran Lalvani

(Ir)resistible bodies : larp as sociocultural technology for building queer heterotopias / Hanne Grasmo, Jaakko Stenros and Tanja Sihvonen

From playful protests to toy activism : troubleshooting tweets of art activist Barbie / Katriina Heljakka

Sharing interspecies stories on social media : an exploration of Australian older adult's' pet image sharing practices / Larissa Hjorth, Caitlin McGrane, Katrin Gerber and Peta Murray

King of the Hill or the storming of the Capitol as double play : the multiplications of worlds through social media platforms / Frans-Willem Korsten, Sybille Lammes, Bram Ieven, Saniye Ince and Sara Polak.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-62954-7

1-04-061228-8

9781003629542

9781040594933

OCLC:

1573147029