Including those among you who do not engage in media studies will be familiar with today’s
subject–the concept of play. Just open your newspaper and see how this concept imposes …

Contemporary computer games are increasingly being used both to entertain people as well
as to “educate, train, and inform” them (Michael and Chen 2006). Refugee games belong to …

With the emergence of digital and mobile technologies, our conceptions and hopes of what
citizen participation entails have changed profoundly. It seems as though interactive, …

On participatory politics as a game changer and the politics of participation, philosopher of
technology Mercedes Bunz notes that we cannot simply take the alleged participatory nature …

In the first part of this book, we present a collection of chapters on the relationship between
the design of games and other playful media on the one hand, and the politics of citizenship …