Holger Pötzsch


Professor Media- and Documentation Studies

Job description

Research groups & networks

ENCODE: Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (coordinator)

CRAFT Research Lab

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


  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese Holt Hansen, Tobias Staaby, Emil Lundedal Hammar :
    Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice: Expanding the Framework
    ToDiGRA 2024
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha
    Journal of War and Culture Studies 2024 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Spielend bilden? Kritische Betrachtungen zu Videospielen vor deren Einsatz im Unterricht
    Transcript Verlag 2024
  • Holger Pötzsch, Thomas Spies, Seyda Kurt :
    „Denken in einer schlechten Welt“: Von der Notwendigkeit einer kritischen Videospielforschung
    Transcript Verlag 2024
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Games and Memory
    Palgrave Macmillan 2023 DOI
  • 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, Uwe Krüger, Florian Zollmann :
    Medienkritik materialistisch: Das Propagandamodell von Herman und Chomsky
    Westend Verlag 2023 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch, Emil Lundedal Hammar, Therese Holt Hansen :
    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 :
    Promises, pitfalls and potentials of immersive journalism
    Routledge 2023 DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • 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, Marc Fabian Buck :
    Digitalisierung, Daten, Eigentum: Bildung im digitalen Kapitalismus
    Westend Verlag 2023 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, Thomas Spies, Seyda Kurt :
    Spiel*Kritik: Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus
    Transcript Verlag 2024 DATA / FULLTEKST
  • Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, Uwe Krüger, Holger Pötzsch, Florian Zollmann, Michael Schiffmann et al.:
    Die Konsensfabrik: Die politische Ökonomie der Massenmedien
    Westend Verlag 2023 DATA
  • Eva Christina Makaria Lentz, Holger Pötzsch :
    Shut up and write ... use ChatGPT: AI as a Challenge in Teaching and Learning
    2024
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    ChatGPT & co: Disrupsjon og dannelse
    2024 PROSJEKT
  • Holger Pötzsch, Therese Holt Hansen :
    Chatbotter i skole og samfunn: En innføring og et undervisningsopplegg for samfunnsfag VGS
    2024
  • Holger Pötzsch, Ulrich Seibert :
    Die Herrschaft des Monetariats: Deep Lobbying
    05. February 2024 FULLTEKST
  • Holger Pötzsch, Zoheb Mashiur, Melania Borit, Cornel Borit :
    Between ‘Stochastic Parrots’ and ‘Skynet’: Imaginaries of Data in Films on AI and Autonomous Technologies
    2024
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Medier, politikk og demokrati: Noen betraktninger rundt tilstanden av våre real-eksisterende vestlige demokratier
    2024
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    From Diagnostics of the Present to Architectures of Preferable Futures: Precarity, Polarization, and the Need for a Progressive Utopian Populism
    2024
  • 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 :
    Kritisk digital kompetanse, KI og digital teknologi: En kritisk innføring
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    The Cybermedia Model as Evaluation Tool
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch, Uwe Krüger, Mandy Tröger, Michael Schiffmann, Sebastian Sevignani, Florian Zollmann et al.:
    KriKoWi Talks: Die Konsensfabrik
    12. September 2023 DATA
  • Holger Pötzsch, Ulrich Seibert :
    Die Akteure des Neoliberalismus: Medien im Neoliberalismus; Teil 2: Private Medien
    11. September 2023 DATA
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Sustainability: Critical Reflections on an Apparently Common-Sensical Term
    2023 ARKIV
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Dataspill
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch, Eva Christina Makaria Lentz :
    KI, LLMs og (ut)danning: Hvordan jobbe med ChatGPT & co i VGS?
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    Hva er Chatbotter og hvordan kan vi bruke de i undervisningen?
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch :
    From Spectacle to 'Spect-Actor: Immersive Journalism and Ethical Spectatorship
    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, Kristine Jørgensen :
    Futures
    Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Holger Pötzsch, John Mcnicol, Sigurd Tønnessen, Gillian Catriona Ramchand :
    Episode 5
    08. November 2023 FULLTEKST
  • Holger Pötzsch, Eva Christina Makaria Lentz :
    KI, LLMs og utdanning: Hvordan jobbe med ChatGPT & co i VGS
    2023
  • Holger Pötzsch, Martin Lüthe :
    Eludamos Doctoral Consortium 2023
    2023 DATA
  • 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, Gabriel Pereira :
    Reimagining Algorithmic Governance: Cultural expressions and the negotiation of social imaginaries (remote presentation)
  • 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

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    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, games & education

    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

    PUBLICATIONS:

    Full list of publications accessible here.

    EDITORSHIP:

    Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Editor-in-Chief (from 2022; with Kristine Jørgensen, UiB)

    Spies, Thomas, Holger Pötzsch & Seyda Kurt (eds.). 2024. Spiel*Kritik – Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus. Bielefeld: transcript.

    Krüger, Uwe, Holger Pötzsch, Florian Zollmann & Michael Schiffmann (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:

    Algorithms at School: Digital Disruption, EdTech, and Teacher Unions. In: Gino Canella (ed.) Raising Class Consciousness: Digital Technology and the Changing Spaces of Labor Power. New York: Bloomsbury. (2024)

    «Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice: Expanding the Framework.» ToDiGRA: Proceedings of DiGRA Nordic. (with Tobias Staaby, Therese H. Hansen & Emil Hammar) (2024)

    «’Denken in einer schlechten Welt’: Von der Notwendigkeit einer kritischen Videospielforschung». In: Thomas Spies, Holger Pötzsch & Seyda Kurt (eds.). Spiel*Kritik – Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus. Bielefeld: transcript. (with Thomas Spies and Seyda Kurt)

    «Spielend bilden? Kritische Betrachtungen zu Videospielen vor deren Einsatz im Unterricht.» In: Thomas Spies, Holger Pötzsch & Seyda Kurt (eds.). Spiel*Kritik – Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus. Bielefeld: transcript.

    «Guilt and Grievability at War: Military Accountability and the Other in Mark of Cain and Battle for Haditha». Journal of War & Culture Studies 17(x). (2024)

    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).





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