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Communication and democracy in Brazil and Germany: Media accountability, public service media, internet access and right to information
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2025), 304 pp.
"The expertise brought by three important Brazilian public universities (Unesp, UnB, and UFSC), combined with the knowledge accumulated through research investment by the Technische Universität Dortmund, was taken here as a unique and rich source of knowledge capable of avoiding the pitfalls and ov
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Effective Serious Games Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Key Guides
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (2025), xii, 222 pp.
"This book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future setting who overcomes the challenges of a typical development pro
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Kirchengeschichte und Digitale Spiele
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2025), 263 pp.
"Analog zu Film- und Theaterwissenschaften setzen sich die "Game Studies" mit dem Medium und seinem Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft auseinander. Anders als in der Geschichtswissenschaft gibt es im Bereich der Kirchengeschichte erst seit Kurzem Bestrebungen, sich dem Phänomen der Darstellung von Verga
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Using social impact games to overcome intractable conflicts: The case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 16 pp.
"Is there a spillover effect in multiperspectivity regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among Israeli and Palestinian undergraduate students that results from playing a social impact game about a different conflictual context? We examined whether playing Fact Finders (Cyprus conflict) and Peac
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ADE for Games: Approaches to Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Games Research and Creation
Pittsburgh: Play Story Press (2024), viii, 241 pp.
Zwischen Spiel und Geschichte. Verantwortung und Ethik in der Darstellung des Nationalsozialismus in Videospielen
Communicatio Socialis, volume 57, issue 3 (2024), pp. 315-329
"Eine moderne Erinnerungskultur muss sich auch mit neuen Formen von Medien auseinandersetzen. Dazu zählt insbesondere das digitale Spiel. Ob neue Formen der Erinnerung gelingen können, hängt u. a. vom verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit historischen Settings ab. Besonders die Darstellung des National
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Tackling Misinformation with Games: A Systematic Literature Review
Interactive Learning Environments, volume 32, issue 10 (2024), pp. 7086-7101
"Misinformation and fake news are severe threats to society. The role of critical reading skills is crucial in the battle against misinformation. Despite the promising results of game-based interventions to mitigate the effects of misinformation, the corpus of research on games supporting critical r
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Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience Through Media and Information Literacy
London: Routledge (2024), 329 pp.
"The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of di
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Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xvi, 218 pp.
"Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the 'gamification of extremism.' Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the f
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Experientially simulated others: Finding social support for mental health in digital games
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"People with mental illness struggle to find connection and community due to a combination of stigma, social isolation, and adverse social experiences. Digital games, as an immersive and interactive media, can convey aspects of mental health experiences in thoughtful ways. I considered how players c
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Metaverse und Gaming: Potenziale für die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 88 pp.
"Diese Studie trägt dazu bei, ein Verständnis für das Thema ,Gaming‘ und seine Derivate zu vermitteln und mithilfe von interdisziplinären, theoriegeleiteten Übersichten, Modellen und Handlungsempfehlungen eine praxisorientierte, qualifizierte Extended Gaming Literacy für Akteur:innen der Aus
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Politiken des (digitalen) Spiels: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 357 pp.
"Spiele sind durch Produktion, Distribution und Konsumption in politische Strukturen eingebunden. Sie spiegeln nicht nur ihre Umwelt wider, sondern werden auch maßgeblich durch diese geformt. Die Beiträger*innen fragen transdisziplinär nach der Analyse solcher "Politiken des Spiels": Innerhalb we
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What’s the News About Bad News? A Review of Bad News Games as a Tool to Teach Media Literacy
Libri, volume 73, issue 4 (2023), pp. 283-292
"This paper examines the Bad News series of games, created by the Cambridge University Social Decision Making Lab and DROG Group, as an educational tool. More specifically, it considers Bad News as a persuasive game, within the umbrella of gamification. After considering the history and context of t
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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 280 pp.
"As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient in
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Teaching with Games: Formative Gaming in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Gamevironments, issue 19 (2023), 205 pp.
"This special issue explores the power of games to shape worldviews, share perspectives, develop religious identities and provoke ethical reflection. Contributors bring together ideas from classrooms of philosophy and religious studies with case studies fromreligious communities and companies engage
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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda
Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60
"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can
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This Time It’s for All the Marbles. Social Injustice in Digital Gaming
Gamevironments, issue 17 (2022), 481 pp.
"This special issue aims to examine the ways in which games and gaming are connected to and potentially accelerate undemocratic and bigoted movements while simultaneously highlighting projects and perspectives from games and games research that learn from analyzing these issues and then use that kno
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Spielen. Lernen. Wissen: Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Games in der Bildung
Berlin: Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2022), 64 pp.
"Das Handbuch »Spielen. Lernen. Wissen. Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Games in der Bildung« veranschaulicht, wie sich digitale Spiele in verschiedenen Bereichen der Bildung einsetzen lassen – zum Beispiel im Schulunterricht, in der Sozialen Arbeit mit Kindern und Jugendlichen oder in der Aus- und We
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