Playing Politics in Digital Spaces: Life After Social Media (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture) - Tapa dura

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Frank Chouraqui is Associate Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of Ambiguity and the Absolute (2014), The Body and Embodiment: A Philosophical Guide (2021), and the co-editor (with Emmanuel Alloa and Rajiv Kaushik) of Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Thought (2018). He works in political approaches to phenomenology, social epistemology and the philosophy of play.

Alex Gekker is Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research incorporates various aspects of digital media, primarily focusing on platforms, infrastructures and interfaces to analyze diverse objects like data centers, maps, surveillance assemblages, autonomous cars, video game ecosystems and more.

Bram Ieven is University Lecturer at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands, and a research fellow on the NWA project RE/Presenting Europe: Popular Representations of Diversity and Belonging in the Netherlands.

Saniye Ince is PhD Candidate at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), the Netherlands. Her dissertation explores media manifestations of Türkiye’s political polarization through a lens of play. Her main research interests are philosophy of play and media studies.

Frans-Willem Korsten is Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands, with a long interest in the relation between sovereignty and theatricality. He contributes to the interdisciplinary field of law, literature and the arts and is working on a monograph on populists' play with the judiciary.

Sybille Lammes is Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands. She does research on the nexus of play, daily life and digital media from an interdisciplinary angle, including cultural studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies and critical geography. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods (2018) and section editor for the Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies (fc.).

Sara Polak is University Lecturer in American Studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands, with a long-running interest in the intersection of play and presidential media communication. She is PI of the ERC project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503–2028.