Books

Empire of the Games

by Andrew M. Lindner | October 30, 2010 | Fall 2010

Two books offer balanced ideas of how video games deliver messages about empire and militarism, but also allow space for resistance.

Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games, by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter.
Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games, edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne.

Author

Andrew M. Lindner is in the sociology department at Concordia College, Moorhead. He studies the intersection of media and politics.