Turning votes into victory points: politics in modern board games

Board games are gaining in popularity as well as sophistication on a thematic and mechanical level. We need to understand the role of this medium within our culture at large, especially in areas where board games interact with fundamental cultural values like the idea of democracy. To further this u...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: "Democracy Dies Playfully: (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games"
Main Author: Quasdorf, Torben (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: 2020
In: Gamevironments
Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Pages: 103-137
Review of:Die Macher (Quasdorf, Torben)
Bloc by bloc (Quasdorf, Torben)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Board games / Politics / Democracy / Protest movements
RelBib Classification:ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B gamevironments
B Book review
B board game
B procedural rhetoric
B political game
B bloc by bloc
B eurogame
B die Macher
B tabletop game
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