• social simulation, agent-based modelling, design of autonomous social agents, autonomous systems;
• evidence synthesis / knowledge integration;
• critical futures studies;
• pedagogy and didactics in higher education, student active learning, game-based learning;
• traceability, certification, standardisation; risk communication;
• fisheries / natural resource management, IUU fishing; fisheries as socio-ecological complex adaptive systems;
• related legislation;
• culture and trust.

External collaborations:

• AnxSAI: Anxiety-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2022- )
• GEDAI: Growing Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2020- )

I am interested in the responses of the fish community from the Arctic to the spatial and temporal environmental changes, such as climate change, using empirical analysis of trait-based models on scientific surveys. 

Teaching 

FSK-3551 Mini Research Project

Teaching Assistant:

Bio-3556  Marine Resource Biology and Technology

• Impact assessment of future technologies
• Skills anticipation and skills gap analysis 
• Business models
• Value chain, supply chain and value network analysis
• Small Scale Fisheries

• Anglophone modernism
• American Cultural Studies
• Poetry and Poetics
• Border Studies, Spatial Geography, Environmental Humanities

Media studies: Critical and materialist approaches to digital technologies, digital & media literacies

Film studies: War films, (neo)formalist approaches

Game studies: War games, (neo)formalist approaches, games & education

Border studies: Border technologies, border culture

Memory studies: Cultural and media memories

Mass media and propaganda

Algorithmic and autonomous systems: Critical approaches

Technology in education

PUBLICATIONS:

Full list of publications accessible here.

EDITORSHIP:

Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Editor-in-Chief (from 2022; with Kristine Jørgensen, UiB)

Spies, Thomas, Holger Pötzsch & Seyda Kurt (eds.). 2024. Spiel*Kritik – Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus. Bielefeld: transcript. (OA)

Krüger, Uwe, Holger Pötzsch, Florian Zollmann & Michael Schiffmann (eds.). 2023. Die Konsensfabrik [Herausgabe der Übersetzung von Edward Herman und Noam Chomskys Manufacturing Consent]. Frankfurt a.M.: Westend Wissenschaft.

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:

Algorithms at School: Digital Disruption, EdTech, and Teacher Unions. In: Gino Canella (ed.) Raising Class Consciousness: Digital Technology and the Changing Spaces of Labor Power. New York: Bloomsbury. (2025)

Playing in and with Ecological Crises: Ecocritical Videogames Between Attitudes and Performance Effects. G|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies 12 (2024).

Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice: Expanding the Framework. ToDiGRA: Proceedings of DiGRA Nordic 7(1). (with Tobias Staaby, Therese H. Hansen & Emil Hammar) (2024)

For PUBLISHED CHAPTERS & ARTICLES, see CRISTIN database and overview here.

• Fisheries ecology and bio-geography
• Trophic networks and life-histories
• Effects of fishing
• Coasts and estuaries
• Small-scale fisheries
• Fisheries management
• Coastal culture
• Futures of coasts and fisheries. Blue Economy.
• Education and outreach
• Quantitative methods: statistics and modelling

Project coordination or focal point

• NorLanka Blue (Marine sciences, blue economy, Sri Lanka)
• SAMAKI (MSc and PhD school in interdisciplinary marine sciences, Tanzania and Zanzibar)
• Blue Route (worlwide PhD education project)

Member

• Programme Committee MASMA - Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association

Consultancies

• Fisheries and education development projects