Title: Models of Politics and Society in Video Games
Abstract: This essay will deal with the question of which models of social policy and social structures can be found in video games. It will examine the relationship between these models, the stories (narrations) provided by the games, and the stories and models created by the players themselves. This examination will be followed by a discussion of two types of virtual models of social politics and social structures. In this discussion, light will be shed on the different models of social policy and social structures that appear in the context of video games. In analyzing these models within games, the question is not whether video games have an influence. Rather, the question is what may children and adolescents learn from “off-the-shelf” video games with respect to political education, political socialization and the forming of political identity?
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-05-25
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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