Playing politics in digital spaces life after social media / edited by Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven, Saniye Ince, Frans-Willem Korsten, Sybille Lammes, and Sara Polak.
| Other author | Chouraqui, Frank |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 76 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "Playing Politics in Digital Spaces offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike. Bringing together media and philosophical insights into the concepts of play, politics and worlding (or world-making), the book highlights the dual potential of play-politics for both oppression and liberation. Through theoretical and cultural historical perspectives on the emergence and repercussions of a post-digital "radical uncertainty", the book allows readers to understand how play has become a crucial component of contemporary politics. It examines this through an array of diverse cases, from different places and scale. This book will interest scholars and students from media studies, philosophy, cultural studies, games and play studies, and political theory and philosophy, and will be valuable for other stakeholders including policy makers, politicians, journalists, game designers, activists and NGOs"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025052307 |
| ISBN | 9781041047179 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781041047186 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |