Research interests:
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
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
EDITORSHIP:
Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Editor-in-Chief (from 2022; with Kristine Jørgensen, UiB)
Krüger, Uwe, Holger Pötzsch & Florian Zollmann (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:
"Games and Memory", in The Palgrave Encyclopdia of Memory Studies, edited by Lucas Bietti and Martin Pogačar. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
“Digitalisierung, Daten, Eigentum: Bildung im digitalen Kapitalismus. In: Hendrik Theine et al. (eds.) Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit. Frankfurt a.M.: Westend Wissenschaft. (mit Marc Fabian Buck) (2023)
For PUBLISHED CHAPTERS & ARTICLES, see CRISTIN database and overview here.
