War Games

Philip Hammond is Professor of Media and Communications at London South Bank University, UK. His previous publications include Media, War and Postmodernity (2007) and Screens of Terror (2011). Holger Pötzsch is Associate Professor in Media and Documentation Studies at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He publishes widely in such journals as Games & Culture, Game Studies, and New Media and Society.

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Introduction: Studying War and Games
Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) and Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway)

I: Militarism and the Gaming Subject

1. Reality Check: Videogames as Propaganda for Inauthentic War
Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK)

2. Playing in the End Times: Wargames, Resilience and the Art of Failure
Kevin McSorley (University of Portsmouth, UK)

3. The Political Economy of Wargames: The Production of History and Memory in Military Video Games
Emil Lundedal Hammar (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) and Jamie Woodcock (University of Oxford, UK)

4. Understanding War Game Experiences: Applying Multiple Player Perspectives to Game Analysis
Kristine Jørgensen (University of Bergen, Norway)

II: Playing War, History, and Memory

5. Playing the Historical Fantastic: Zombies, Mecha-Nazis and Making Meaning about the Past Through Metaphor
Adam Chapman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

6. Machine(s) of Narrative Security: Mnemonic Hegemony and Polish Games about Violent Conflicts
Piotr Sterczewski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)

7. National Memories and the First World War: The Many Sides of Battlefield 1
Chris Kempshall (the Imperial War Museum, UK)

8. Let’s Play War: Cultural Memory, Celebrities and Appropriations of the Past
Stephanie de Smale (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

III: Wargames/Peacegames

9. The Wargame Legacy: How Wargames Shaped the Roleplaying Experience from Tabletop to Digital Games
Dimitra Nikolaidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

10. Critical War Game Development: Lessons Learned from Attentat 1942
Vít Šisler (Charles University, Czech Republic)

11. Simulating War Dynamics: A Case Study of the Game-based Learning Exercise Mission Z: One Last Chance
Joakim Arnøy (Narvik War and Peace Centre, Norway)

12. Positioning Players as Political Subjects: Forms of Estrangement and the Presentation of War in This War of Mine and Spec Ops: The Line
Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway)

Afterword: War/Game
Matthew Thomas Payne (University of Notre Dame, USA)

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