The missing memorial: the Division 2 and the politics of memory
The Division 2 (2019) presents players with a near one-to-one recreation of Washington, D.C. with a glaring omission: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How does the erasure of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial reflect the politics of an apolitical approach to game design? What does the playable spectacle o...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: "Democracy Dies Playfully: (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games" |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| In: |
Gamevironments
Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Pages: 174-222 |
| Review of: | Tom Clancy's The Divison 2 (Meyer, Joseph) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC)
/ Political conflict
/ Collective memory
/ Politics
/ Neutrality
/ Video game
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Hauntings
B gamevironments B Book review B Environmental Design B the Division 2 B Public Memory B Tom Clancy B Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
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