Holger Pötzsch
Professor medie- og dokumentasjonsvitenskap
Stillingsbeskrivelse
Research groups & networks
ENCODE: Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (coordinator)
- Pötzsch, Holger. Jonna Eagle, War Games. (data) American Literary History 2022; Volum 34 (3). ISSN 0896-7148.s doi: 10.1093/alh/ajac143.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Sisler, Vit; Cuhra, Jaroslav; Pinkas, Jaroslav; Hannemann, Tereza. History, Heritage, and Memory in Video Games: Approaching the Past in 'Svoboda 1945: Liberation' and 'Train to Sachsenhausen'. Games and Culture 2022; Volum 17. ISSN 1555-4120.s doi: 10.1177/15554120221115402.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Schamberger, Kerem. Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Organisation, Mobilisation, and Activism in Germany. (data) tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 2022; Volum 20 (1). ISSN 1726-670X.s 82 - 100.s doi: 10.31269/triplec.v20i1.1314.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Grenzen und Technologie. Nomos 2021 ISBN 978-3-8487-5387-1.s 283 - 296.s doi: 10.5771/9783845295305-283.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks. Manchester University Press 2021 ISBN 978-1-5261-4626-7.s 65 - 82.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Farsfigurer, skeive døtre og voldens egendynamikk i 'The Last of Us: Part II'. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 2021; Volum 45 (1). ISSN 0809-6341.s 39 - 55.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Bringing Materiality into Thinking about Digital Literacy: Theories and Practices of Critical Education in a Digital Age. Brill Academic Publishers 2021 ISBN 978-90-04-46703-3.s 52 - 73.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Kapitalismus, Big Data und die neue Rolle der Archive: Anmerkungen zu kritischer Medienkompetenz in Zeiten digitaler Transformation. Westend Verlag 2021 ISBN 978-3-86489-340-7.s 128 - 146.
- Krüger, Uwe; Pötzsch, Holger; Theine, Hendrik. Wie neoliberal sind die Medien?. Herbert von Halem Verlag 2021 ISBN 978-3-86962-535-5.s 104 - 116.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Hammar, Emil. Playing Perpetrators: Interrogating Evil in Videogames about Violent Conflicts. Routledge 2020 ISBN 978-1-138-10324-5.s 343 - 355.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Monster oder Mitmensch? Der vampirische Andere in zwei Versionen von Francis D. Lawrences Film 'I Am Legend'.. (data) Westend Verlag 2020 ISBN 978-3-86489-315-5.s 136 - 151.
- Pötzsch, Holger. A Tale of Two Versions: I Am Legend and the Political Economy of Cultural Production. Nordlit 2019; Volum 42. ISSN 0809-1668.s 171 - 190.s doi: 10.7557/13.5011.
- Pötzsch, Holger. From a New Seeing to a New Acting: Viktor Shklovsky's Ostranenie and Analyses of Games and Play. Lexington Books 2019 ISBN 978-1-4985-9792-0.s 235 - 251.
- Brox, Hilde; Pötzsch, Holger. Communicative digital skills. Fagbokforlaget 2019 ISBN 9788245026597.s 71 - 84.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications. (data) (fulltekst) tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 2019; Volum 17 (2). ISSN 1726-670X.s 221 - 240.s doi: 10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1093.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Calculating Lives? Memory, Archive, and Identity in a Digital Era. Palgrave Macmillan 2019 ISBN 9783030217730.s 61 - 81.s doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21774-7_3.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Waszkiewicz, Agata. Life Is Bleak (in Particular for Women Who Exert Power and Try to Change the World): The Poetics and Politics of Life Is Strange. Game Studies 2019; Volum 19 (3). ISSN 1604-7982.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Positioning Players as Political Subjects: Forms of Estrangement and the Presentation of War in This War of Mine and Spec Ops: The Line. Bloomsbury Academic 2019 ISBN 978-1-5013-5115-0.s 241 - 257.s doi: 10.5040/9781501351181.ch-013.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Forms and Practices of Transgressivity in Videogames: Aesthetics, Play, and Politics. MIT Press 2018 ISBN 9780262038652.s 45 - 62.
- Pötzsch, Holger. iBorder/ing. Routledge 2018 ISBN 9781138886872.s 99 - 103.s doi: 10.4324/9781315714523-13.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Of Monsters and Men: Forms of Evil in War Films. Walter de Gruyter 2018 ISBN 978-3-11-059121-7.s 53 - 72.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Playing Games with Shklovsky, Brecht, and Boal: Ostranenie, V-Effect, and Spect-Actors as Analytical Tools for Game Studies. (data) (fulltekst) Game Studies 2017; Volum 17 (2). ISSN 1604-7982.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Archives and Identity in the Context of Social Media and Algorithmic Analytics: Towards an Understanding of iArchive and Predictive Retention. (data) (fulltekst) New Media & Society 2017; Volum 20 (9). ISSN 1461-4448.s 3304 - 3322.s doi: 10.1177/1461444817748483.
- Brambilla, Chiara; Pötzsch, Holger. In/Visibility. Berghahn Books 2017 ISBN 9781785334641.s 68 - 89.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Media Matter. (data) (fulltekst) tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 2017; Volum 15 (1). ISSN 1726-670X.s 148 - 170.s doi: 10.31269/triplec.v15i1.819.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Hammond, Philip. War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play. (fulltekst) (prosjekt) Game Studies 2016; Volum 16 (2). ISSN 1604-7982.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Materialist perspectives on digital technologies : informing debates on digital literacy and competence. (data) Nordicom Review 2016; Volum 37 (1). ISSN 1403-1108.s 119 - 132.s doi: 10.1515/nor-2016-0006.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Investigating the Culture-Media-Security Nexus. Routledge 2016 ISBN 978-0415712910.s 36 - 50.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Etter beste kjønn. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 2016; Volum 40 (2). ISSN 0809-6341.s 141 - 145.s doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2016-02-05.
- Pötzsch, Holger; Sisler, Vit. Playing Cultural Memory: Framing History in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' and 'Czechoslovakia 38-89: Assassination'. (data) (fulltekst) (prosjekt) Games and Culture 2016; Volum 14 (1). ISSN 1555-4120.s 3 - 25.s doi: 10.1177/1555412016638603.
- Pötzsch, Holger. The emergence of iWar: Changing practices and perceptions of military engagement in a digital era. (data) New Media & Society 2015; Volum 17 (1). ISSN 1461-4448.s 78 - 95.s doi: 10.1177/1461444813516834.
- Pötzsch, Holger. "The Emergence of iBorder: Bordering Bodies, Networks, and Machines". Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space 2015; Volum 33 (1). ISSN 0263-7758.s 101 - 118.s doi: 10.1068/d14050p.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Seeing and Thinking Borders. Ashgate 2015 ISBN 978-1-4724-5146-0.s 217 - 228.
- Pötzsch, Holger. The emergence of iBorder: Bordering bodies, networks, and machines. Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space 2015; Volum 33 (1). ISSN 0263-7758.s 101 - 118.s doi: 10.1068/d14050p.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Selective Realism: Filtering Experiences of War and Violence in First- and Third-Person Shooters. (data) (prosjekt) Games and Culture 2015; Volum 12 (2). ISSN 1555-4120.s 156 - 178.s doi: 10.1177/1555412015587802.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. (data) Journal of Borderlands Studies 2015. ISSN 0886-5655.s doi: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1036099.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Games and Brains. (data) (prosjekt) Dichtung-Digital 2014; Volum 44. ISSN 1617-6901.s 1 - 7.
- Pötzsch, Holger. The Ubiquitous Absence of the Enemy in Contemporary Israeli War Films. The University Press of Kentucky 2014 ISBN 978-0-8131-4512-9.s 313 - 330.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Beyond Mimesis. War, History, and Memory in Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers. Wallflower Press 2013 ISBN 978-0-231-16565-5.s doi: 10.7312/gjel16564-008.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Ubiquitous absence : character engagement in the contemporary war film. (fulltekst) Nordicom Review 2013; Volum 34 (1). ISSN 1403-1108.s 125 - 144.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Renegotiating difficult pasts: Two documentary dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972. Memory Studies 2012; Volum 5 (2). ISSN 1750-6980.s 206 - 222.s doi: 10.1177/1750698011418151.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Framing Narratives: Opening Sequences in Contemporary American and British War Films. Media, War & Conflict 2012; Volum 5 (2). ISSN 1750-6352.s 155 - 173.s doi: 10.1177/1750635212440918.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Imag(in)ing Painful Pasts: Mimetic and Poetic Style in War Films. Routledge 2012 ISBN 978-0-415-89382-4.s 251 - 278.
- Pötzsch, Holger. War's New Clothes? Diffusing Norway's Military Engagement in Afghanistan. 2012.s 21 - 24.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Aspects of Liminality in Knut Erik Jensen's 'Stella Polaris'. Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 2012 (52). ISSN 1406-0957.s 118 - 123.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Rearticulating the Experience of War in 'Eine Frau in Berlin'. Nordlit 2012; Volum 30. ISSN 0809-1668.s 15 - 33.s doi: 10.7557/13.2370.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Borders, barriers and grievable lives : the discursive production of self and other in film and other audio-visual media. (data) Nordicom Review 2011; Volum 32 (2). ISSN 1403-1108.s 75 - 94.s doi: 10.1515/nor-2017-0114.
- Pötzsch, Holger. Liminale Räume in Srdjan Dragojevićs 'Lepa Sela, Lepa Gore' und Danis Tanovićs 'Ničija Zemlja'. A. Francke Verlag 2011 ISBN 978-3-7720-8434-8.s 89 - 104.
- Pötzsch, Holger. "Challenging the Border as a Barrier: Liminality in Terrence Malick's 'The Thin Red Line'". (data) Journal of Borderlands Studies 2010; Volum 25 (1). ISSN 0886-5655.s 67 - 80.
- Pötzsch, Holger. "'Black Hawk Down': Film zwischen Reflektion und Konstruktion gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit". International Review of Education 2009; Volum 55 (2). ISSN 0020-8566.s 269 - 284.
Forskningsinteresser
Media studies: Critical and materialist approaches to digital technologies
Film studies: War films, (neo)formalist approaches
Game studies: War games, (neo)formalist approaches
Border studies: Border technologies, border culture
Memory studies: Cultural and media memories
PUBLICATIONS:
EDITORSHIP:
Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Editor-in-Chief (from 2022; with Kristine Jørgensen, UiB)
Wijermars, Mariëlle, Holger Pötzsch, Annette Markham & Daria Gritsenko (eds.). 2022. Algorithmic Governance in Context. Special issue. New Media & Society 24(4).
Jørgensen, Kristine, Faltin Karlsen & Holger Pötzsch (eds.). 2021. Spillstudier. Temanummer. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 28(4). Accessible here (open access).
Hammond, Phil & Holger Pötzsch (eds.). 2019. War Game: Memory, Militarism, and the Subject of Play. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Beyer, Christian, Juliane C. Bockwoldt, Emil L. Hammar & Holger Pötzsch (eds.). 2019. Manufacturing Monsters. Special issue. Nordlit 42. Accessible here (open access).
Pötzsch, Holger & Phil Hammond (eds.). 2016. WAR/GAME. Special issue. Game Studies 16(2). Accessible here (open access).
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:
Forthcoming:
"Promises, Pitfalls, and Potentials of Immersive Journalism", in Ana Luisa Sánchez-Laws (ed.) Insights on Immersive Journalism. London: Routledge.
"Towards a Diagnostics of the Present: Popular Culture, Post-Apocalyptic Macro-Dystopia, and the Petrification of Politics", in Lene Johannessen and Asbjørn Grønstad (eds.) Micro-Dystopia. London: Lexington Books.
For PUBLISHED CHAPTERS & ARTICLES, see CRISTIN database.
Undervisning
Courses developed
Control and Resistance in the Digital Era (9 ECTS; BA). Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IfKW/LMU) (SS 2020 & 2022). With Kerem Schamberger (IfKW/LMU). More info here (2020) and here (2022).
Media, War, and Conflict: An introduction to key issues and debates (9ECTS; BA). Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IfKW/LMU) (WS 2018/19). More info here.
HIF-3112: Film as Method and Data (10 credits; MA). Co-developed with Haile Seifu, Prudence Uriri, and Andreas Buch (all MediaLab HSL).
HIF-3111: Manufacturing Monsters (10 credits; MA). Co-developed with Emil Hammar, Juliane Bockwoldt, and Christian Beyer (all ISK).
MDV-3050: Teori og metode for medie- og dokumentasjonsvitenskap [Theory and Method in Media and Documentation Studies] (20 credits; MA). Syllabus and lecture plan for autumn term 2017 can be accessed here.
MDV-1003: Medier, kommunikasjon og samfunn [Media, Communication, and Society] (20 credits; BA).
HIF-3201: Image/Culture/War (10 credits; MA).
DOK-6301: Informasjonskompetanse i en digital tid [Information Literacy in a Digital Age] (10 credits).