Despite a growing interest in the way the media and popular culture shape geopolitical
identities and subjectivities, current scholarship has overlooked the spaces, practices and …

For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the
understanding of conflict and of America's role in global affairs. But if World War II helped …

World War II is the conflict that features most in first-person shooter (FPS) video games, but
despite the rapid growth of this sector of the entertainment industry, the way in which the war …

The goal of this article is to discuss how digital war games such as the Call of Duty series
elicit consent for the US military, militarism and the wars waged by the US and its allies …

Building upon current interest in studies of how popular culture relates to global politics, this
article examines one hitherto overlooked aspect of popular culture: computer games …

Military-themed video games allow civilians to play war, not just as a soldier, but in a
particularly constructed, heavily gendered soldier identity, situated in our cultural …

This research is based on a detailed empirical case study of the popular videogame series
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Drawing primarily on the field of popular geopolitics, the …

This study focuses on United States-based players of World of Tanks, a historical battle
arena game that features many playable tanks based on their actual historical origins …

There is no question that violent entertainments shape popular attitudes toward violence.
But do they really make the culture as a whole more violent? Can they work to make it less …

On October 13, 2008, Brandon Crisp, a 15-year-old boy from the rural community of Barrie,
Ontario, ran away from home following a dispute with his parents, who had confiscated his …