• social simulation, agent-based modelling, design of autonomous social agents, autonomous systems;
• evidence synthesis / knowledge integration;
• critical futures studies;
• pedagogy and didactics in higher education, student active learning, game-based learning;
• traceability, certification, standardisation; risk communication;
• fisheries / natural resource management, IUU fishing; fisheries as socio-ecological complex adaptive systems;
• related legislation;
• culture and trust.

External collaborations:

• AnxSAI: Anxiety-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2022- )
• GEDAI: Growing Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2020- )

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

EDITORSHIP:

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

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.

"Promises, Pitfalls, and Potentials of Immersive Journalism", in Ana Luisa Sánchez-Laws (ed.) Insights on Immersive Journalism. London: Routledge.

"Towards a Diagnostics of the Present: Popular Culture, Post-Apocalyptic Macro-Dystopia, and the Petrification of Politics", in Lene Johannessen and Asbjørn Grønstad (eds.) Micro-Dystopia. London: Lexington Books.

For PUBLISHED CHAPTERS & ARTICLES, see CRISTIN database.