From the eco-calypse to the infocalypse: The importance of building a new culture for protecting the infosphere

MT Ho, HKT Nguyen - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
In our ever technologically driven and mediatized society, we face the existential risk of
falling into an info-calypse as much as an eco-calypse. To complement the list of values of a …

Military shooter video games and the ontopolitics of derivative wars and arms culture

P Mantello - American journal of economics and sociology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The “military shooter”(MS) video game is the latest in a long line of video games
that immerse the player in a fantasy world. Although the MS video game was once regarded …

Bringing the battlefield into the classroom: using video games to teach and assess international humanitarian law

L Moffett, D Cubie, A Godden - The Law Teacher, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The graphic and widespread atrocities committed during conflicts around the world and
broadcast across 24/7 news and social media have made war never feel so close and the …

When critique meets reality: systemic violence and the BioShock Games

M Ogden - Law, Tech. & Hum., 2023 - HeinOnline
It is easy to mistakenly assume that video games should be analysed as narratives in the
same way that a book or a film might be,'especially as continuous technological …

Introduction: Playing Law

D Mitchell, A Pearson, TD Peters - Law, Video Games, Virtual …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Video games tend to open with a menu. This is, in essence, an invitation to play. It is from
here that the game begins as a player chooses to 'start'a new game,'load'a save state …

The Parallel Lives of Legal Persons and Video Game Avatars

A Pearson - The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Video game avatars vary from game to game in their aesthetics, dimension, perspective, and
abilities, yet the function of the avatar is singular: it is the mediating technology through …

[PDF][PDF] From scorching desert to tropical paradise: New form of video game orientalism in far cry 3

AP Aji - Journal Media dan Komunikasi Indonesia, 2020 - researchgate.net
This paper provides an analysis of different form of orientalism found in the third tle of the
popular Far Cry game series. The open world system offered by Far Cry 3 brings a new …

[PDF][PDF] Violence is the end of a Trump presidency's full of lies: Thoughts on the post-January 6th discourse

MT Ho - 2021 - osf.io
Violence is the end of a Trump presidency’s full of lies: Thoughts on the post- January 6th
discourse Page 1 Violence is the end of a Trump presidency’s full of lies: Thoughts on the post …

[PDF][PDF] Lethal Appetites

P Mantello, N Panagoitou - 2022 - ikee.lib.auth.gr
Throughout the centuries humanity has shown huge interest in spectacular displays of
violence. From the real-world rituals of lethal combat sports of the Roman arena to medieval …

Virtual War and the Nazi Zombie Gothic in Call of Duty

J Höglund - War Gothic in Literature and Culture, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The US Marine that has found temporary shelter in a ruined building somewhere far beyond
enemy lines is in for a very bad day. In the mist outside, shapes stumble and moan, slowly …