Issue 9, 2020 – The Taboos of Game Studies 

Edited by K. Jørgensen, R. Fassone

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Summary

Vol. 1 – Journal (peer-reviewed)

• K. Jørgensen, R. Fassone – Introduction: Locating the Taboos of Game Studies
• F. Mäyrä – Game Culture Studies and the Politics of Scholarship: The Opposites and the Dialectic
• A. Trammell – Torture, Play, and the Black Experience
• E. Pfister, M. Tschiggerl – “The Führer’s facial hair and name can also be reinstated in the virtual world.” Taboos, Authenticity and the Second World War in digital games
• T.Z. Majkowski, K. Suszkiewicz – Cardboard Genocide. Board Game Design as a Tool in Holocaust Education
• H. Wirman, R. Jones – Invading Space? On Perceived Risk and Doing Research in Game Arcades