Politics in Games -- An Overview and Classification
<|reference_start|>Politics in Games -- An Overview and Classification: The representation of politics in media influences societal perceptions and attitudes. Video games, as a pervasive form of media, contribute significantly to this phenomenon. In this work, we explore political themes within video games by analyzing politically-themed games on game distribution platforms including Steam. We conducted a statistical examination of games with political context to identify patterns and use this as a basis to introduce a first taxonomy to categorize and better understand the interplay between politics and video games. This taxonomy offers a first framework for analyzing political content in games and also sets a foundation for future research in this field.<|reference_end|>
@article{gutwenger2024politics,
    title={Politics in Games -- An Overview and Classification},
    author={Lisa Gutwenger, Stephan Keller, Martin Dolezal, Bernhard Schn"ogl,
  Sebastian Rous, Klaus Poier, Johanna Pirker},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07379},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.07379},
    primaryClass={cs.HC}
}