1. Unit startpage
  2. Employees
  3. Holger Pötzsch
Bilde av Pötzsch, Holger
Bilde av Pötzsch, Holger
Department of Language and Culture holger.potzsch@uit.no +4777645380 Tromsø SVHUM E 1013

Holger Pötzsch

Professor Media- and Documentation Studies

Job description

Research groups & networks

ENCODE: Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (coordinator)

CRAFT Research Lab

The Grey Zone

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5533-5014

  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese Holt Hansen, Emil Lundedal Hammar :
    Teaching and learning about audio-visual media: A critical media literacy perspective on the use of games in the contemporary upper-secondary classroom
    Peter Lang Publishing Group 2023 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Manufacturing Monsters Across Media and Genres: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Multi-Dimensional Research Agenda on the Cultural Construction of the Other
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2023 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Promises, pitfalls and potentials of immersive journalism
    Routledge 2023 DATA / ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch, Uwe Krüger, Florian Zollmann :
    Medienkritik materialistisch: Das Propagandamodell von Herman und Chomsky
    Westend Verlag 2023
  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese H. Hansen, Emil Lundedal Hammar :
    Digital Games as Media for Teaching and Learning: A Template for Critical Evaluation
    Simulation & Gaming 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch, Gabriel Pereira :
    Reimagining Algorithmic Governance: Cultural expressions and the negotiation of social imaginaries
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2022 PROSJEKT / DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • Christina Lentz, Tina Otten, Holger Pötzsch :
    Kritische digitale Medienkompetenz in der BNE
    Waxmann Verlag 2022 ARKIV
  • Daria Gritsenko, Annette Markham, Holger Pötzsch, Mariëlle Wijermars :
    Algorithms, contexts, governance: An introduction to the special issue
    New Media & Society 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Vit Sisler, Holger Pötzsch, Tereza Hannemann, Jaroslav Cuhra, Jaroslav Pinkas :
    History, Heritage, and Memory in Video Games: Approaching the Past in Svoboda 1945: Liberation and Train to Sachsenhausen
    Games and Culture 04. August 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Toward a Diagnostics of the Present: Popular Culture, Post-Apocalyptic Macro-Dystopia, and the Petrification of Politics
    Lexington Books 2022 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch, Kerem Schamberger :
    Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Organisation, Mobilisation, and Activism in Germany
    tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 2022 DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • Uwe Krüger, Holger Pötzsch, Hendrik Theine :
    Wie neoliberal sind die Medien?
    Herbert von Halem Verlag 2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Kapitalismus, Big Data und die neue Rolle der Archive: Anmerkungen zu kritischer Medienkompetenz in Zeiten digitaler Transformation
    Westend Verlag 2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Grenzen und Technologie
    Nomos 2021 DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Bringing Materiality into Thinking about Digital Literacy: Theories and Practices of Critical Education in a Digital Age
    Brill Academic Publishers 2021 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks
    Manchester University Press 2021 ARKIV
  • Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, Uwe Krüger, Holger Pötzsch, Florian Zollmann :
    Die Konsensfabrik: Die politische Ökonomie der Massenmedien
    Westend Verlag 2023
  • Trine Solberg, Holger Pötzsch, Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Hanne Backe Hansen :
    Ekspertene til bekymrede foreldre: Dette skjer når barna gamer
    07. January 2023 DATA
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Gabe Ibanez's Autómata
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Operationalizing the Cybermedia Model: A Template for the Critical Evaluation of Educational Potentials of Digital Games
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Utopier, dystopier og forsteiningen av politikk: Forsøk på en samtidsdiagnose
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Kritisk digital kompetanse, KI og digital teknologi: En kritisk innføring
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    The Cybermedia Model as Evaluation Tool
    2023
  • Julia Weigelt, Holger Pötzsch, Eugen Pfister, Manouchehr Shamsrizi :
    Böser Araber gegen guten Amerikaner
    20. October 2022 FULLTEKST / DATA
  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese Holt Hansen, Emil Lundedal Hammar :
    Digital Games as Media for Teaching and Learning: A Template for Critical Evaluation
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch, Daria Gordeeva, Ute Hirsekorn :
    Online Portal - The GDR on Film
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Resilience & Sustainability: Critical Approaches
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Nina Proll: Das Leben kann tödlich sein
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Propaganda, desinformasjon og kildekritikk
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Ist der Neoliberalismus am Ende? Und wenn ja, werden wir ihn vermissen?
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Digitalisierung, Daten, Eigentum: Bildung im digitalen Kapitalismus
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Skeive karakterer, vold og konflikt i The Last of Us: Part II
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch, Kristine Jørgensen :
    Editorial: Transitions
    Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch, Gabriel Pereira :
    Reimagining Algorithmic Governance: Cultural expressions and the negotiation of social imaginaries (remote presentation)
    2022 FULLTEKST / PROSJEKT
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Algorithms at Work: Unions in the Digital Economy
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Algorithmic Governance in Context: An Introduction to the workshop
    2022
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Jonna Eagle, War Games
    American Literary History 2022 DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Games and Realism
    2022 FULLTEKST / DATA / ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch, Gabriel Pereira :
    Artistic Responses to Algorithmic Governance: Reimagining and Transgressing Algorithmic Imaginaries
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese Holt Hansen :
    Digital Games as Media for Teaching and Learning History
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Norwegen: Moderate Änderungen
    Kommunisten.de 14. November 2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    From Post-Apocalyptic Macro-Dystopias to Situated Micro-Utopias: Popular Culture and Petrified Politics
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Norwegens neue Regierung
    Kommunisten.de 2021 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Norwegen, was nun?
    Kommunisten.de 05. October 2021 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Krigens arkitektur: Demonisering i film og spill
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Hvor er Internettet? Materialitet og makt i digitale nettverk (foredrag til bruk i videregående skoler i Troms og Finnmark i 2021 og 2022)
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch, Kristine Jørgensen, Faltin Karlsen :
    Dataspillforskning i et medievitenskapelig perspektiv
    Norsk Medietidsskrift 2021 DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    ‘VR Helped Me Grasp the Life of a Transgender Wheelchair User’: False Promises, Hidden Pitfalls, and Genuine Potentials of Immersive Journalism
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch, Gabriel Pereira :
    Challenging Algorithmic Governance: Art, Politics & Technology
    2021
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    From Macro-Dystopia to Micro-Utopia: Popular Culture and Petrified Politics
    2021

    • The 50 latest publications is shown on this page. See all publications in Cristin here →

    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.

    Teaching

    Courses developed

    Control and Resistance in the Digital Era (9 ECTS; BA). Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IfKW/LMU) (SS 2020 & 2022). With Kerem Schamberger (IfKW/LMU). More info here (2020) and here (2022).

    Media, War, and Conflict: An introduction to key issues and debates (9ECTS; BA). Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IfKW/LMU) (WS 2018/19). More info here.

    HIF-3112: Film as Method and Data (10 credits; MA). Co-developed with Haile Seifu, Prudence Uriri, and Andreas Buch (all MediaLab HSL).

    HIF-3111: Manufacturing Monsters (10 credits; MA). Co-developed with Emil Hammar, Juliane Bockwoldt, and Christian Beyer (all ISK).

    MDV-3050: Teori og metode for medie- og dokumentasjonsvitenskap [Theory and Method in Media and Documentation Studies] (20 credits; MA). Syllabus and lecture plan for autumn term 2017 can be accessed here.

    MDV-1003: Medier, kommunikasjon og samfunn [Media, Communication, and Society] (20 credits; BA).

    HIF-3201: Image/Culture/War (10 credits; MA).

    DOK-6301: Informasjonskompetanse i en digital tid [Information Literacy in a Digital Age] (10 credits).

    Researcher profile in Cristin
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5533-5014

    Member of research group

    Border Poetics / Border Culture   Norsk innhold War and Peace Dynamics   Norsk innhold Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (ENCODE)   Norsk innhold The Grey Zone   English content WarPeD   English content CRAFT   English content

    Member of project

    FUTURES4Fish    English content
    SVHUM E 1013

    Click for bigger map

    Attachments: