@article{Nohr2010,
  author    = {Nohr, Rolf F.},
  title     = {The naturalization of knowledge},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42746},
  pages     = {130 -- 145},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Reflecting on how and with what kind of consequences something artificial, something manufactured becomes naturalized in video games will be the central issue of this text. It deals with the question of how the video game hides its artificiality in terms of technique. In a certain sense this retrieves one of the fundamental questions of modernity and industrialization: How does the manufacturing of our environment become a naturalized, self-evident and indubitable process?},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Nitsche2010,
  author    = {Nitsche, Michael},
  title     = {Games as structures for mediated performances},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42730},
  pages     = {110 -- 129},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Video games structure play as performance in both the virtual and the physical space. On the one hand, the player encounters game worlds as virtual stages to act upon. On the other hand, the game world stages the player and re-frames the play space. This essay sets out to suggest some of the elements that are at work in this dualism of games as performative media. The two key elements here are the mediation of the game environment and the transformation of the player through virtual puppetry. Both cases will be argued with a focus on spatiality in performance.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{CermakSassenrath2010,
  author    = {Cermak-Sassenrath, Daniel},
  title     = {The logic of play in everyday human-computer interaction},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42720},
  pages     = {80 -- 108},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Communication, simulation, interactive narrative and ubiquitous computing are widely accepted as perspectives in humancomputer interaction. This paper proposes play as another possible perspective. Everyday uses of the computer increasingly show signs of similarity to play. This is not discussed with regard to the so-called media society, the playful society, the growing cultural acceptance of the computer, the spread of computer games or a new version of Windows, but in view of the playful character of interaction with the computer that has always been part of it. The exploratory learning process involved with new software and the creative tasks that are often undertaken when using the computer may support this argument. Together with its high level of interactivity, these observations point to a sense of security, autonomy and freedom of the user that produce play and are, in turn, produced by play. This notion of play refers not to the playing of computer games, but to an implicit, abstract (or symbolic) process based on a certain attitude, the play spirit. This attitude is discussed regarding everyday computer use and related to the other mentioned perspectives.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Warnke2010,
  author    = {Warnke, Martin},
  title     = {Logic as a medium},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42710},
  pages     = {64 -- 78},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Computer games are rigid in a peculiar way: the logic of computation was the first to shape the early games. The logic of interactivity marked the action genre of games in the second place, while in massive multiplayer online gaming all the emergences of the net occur to confront us with just another type of logic. These logics are the media in which the specific forms of computer games evolve. Therefore, a look at gaming supposing that there are three eras of computation is taken: the early synthetical era, ruled by the Turing machine and by mainframe computers, by the IPO principle of computing; the second, mimetical era, when interactivity and graphical user interfaces dominate, the domain of the feedback loop; and the third, emergent era, in which the complexity of networked personal computers and their users is dominant.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Kuecklich2010,
  author    = {K{\"u}cklich, Julian},
  title     = {Seki},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42700},
  pages     = {36 -- 62},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Game space can be conceived of as being structured by varying levels of ruledness, i.e. it oscillates between openness and closure, between playability and gameness. The movement through game space can then be described as a vector defined by possibility spaces, which are generated organically out of the interplay between ruled and unruled space. But we can only define rules ex negativo, therefore the possibility of breaking the rules is always already inscribed in this vector of movement. This can be conceptualized as a boundary operation that takes the difference between 'ordinary life' and 'play' as its argument, and which thus generates the difference between 'play' and 'game'.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GuenzelLiebeMersch2010,
  author    = {G{\"u}nzel, Stephan and Liebe, Michael and Mersch, Dieter},
  title     = {Logic and structure of the computer game},
  series = {DIGAREC series},
  journal   = {DIGAREC series},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1867-6227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-43020},
  pages     = {16 -- 35},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {This paper comprises four parts. Firstly, an overview of the mathematics of decision logic in relation to games and of the construction of narration and characters is given. This includes specific limits of the use of decision logic pertaining to games in general and to storytelling in particular. Secondly, the rule system as the medial unconsciousness is focused on. Thirdly, remarks are made on the debate between ludology and narratology, which had to fail as it missed the crucial point: the computer game as a medium. Finally, gaming in general, as well as its relationship to chance, coincidence, emergence, and event is discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Humborg2010,
  author    = {Humborg, Christian Ludwig},
  title     = {Highways in Europe - between public and private provision},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46071},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {This paper discusses different options for institutional arrangements providing network infrastructure on the basis of the 'transaction cost economic' approach using the example of highway infrastructure. Drawing on lessons learned from highway provision in three European countries (Italy, Poland and Spain), five models of highway provision are discussed: public authorities, public enterprises, user clubs, private partnerships or a regulated private market. Three options to regulate the private market are presented: a rate-of-return regulation, a price-cap-regulation and franchise bidding. The main factor that makes private construction and provision expensive are the risk premiums of private companies that are incorporated for political risks. It is argued that the optimal model of highway provision depends on each country-specific situation. This is mainly influenced by the regulatory experience within the country on one hand and by the stage of highway development on the other.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{OPUS4-4280,
  title     = {UN-Menschenrechtsausschuß : Mitteilung gegen Deutschland},
  series = {MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen},
  number    = {1},
  issn      = {1434-2820},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44662},
  year      = {2001},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KeisengRakate2000,
  author    = {Keiseng Rakate, Phenyo},
  title     = {Is the Sierra Leonean amnesty law compatible with international law?},
  series = {MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {1434-2820},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44193},
  pages     = {151 -- 154},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Der Autor diskutiert in seinem Aufsatz kritisch den Friedensvertrag von Lom{\´e}, der am 7. Juli 1999 offiziell den bewaffneten Konflikt in Sierra Leone beendete. Nach einer kurzen Zusammenfassung der allgemeinen Regelungen des Vertrags stellt der Autor die in Artikel 9 des Abkommens vorgesehene Generalamnestie den bindenden Grunds{\"a}tzen des internationalen Rechts gegen{\"u}ber. Internationale Verbrechen, wie V{\"o}lkermord, Kriegsverbrechen oder Folterung sind als Verstoß gegen ius cogens-Normen von allen Staaten zu verfolgen. Nach der Er{\"o}rterung der betreffenden Konventionen, internationalen Abkommen und Fallentscheidungen des IGH, die diesen Grundsatz festschreiben, beschreibt er den - Friedensprozessen inh{\"a}renten - Konflikt, ein Gleichgewicht zwischen notwendiger Vers{\"o}hnung und strafrechtlicher Verfolgung zu finden. Bei der Betrachtung des Fallrechts schließt Phenyo neuere Entscheidungen ein, wie die des britischen House of Lords im Fall Pinochet, die sowohl nationalen wie internationalen Gerichten das Recht auf Strafverfolgung internationaler Verbrechen zugestand. Stellvertretend f{\"u}r die weite Kritik der Generalamnestie des Lom{\´e}-Abkommens zitiert der Autor den VN-Generalsekret{\"a}r Kofi Annan, der die Generalamnestie als unvereinbar mit der T{\"a}tigkeit und Aufgabe der internationalen Straftribunale in Den Haag und Arusha sowie des zuk{\"u}nftigen Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes ansieht. Phenyo schließt sich mit seiner kurzen Analyse des Friedensabkommens der kritischen Haltung Annans an und sieht nur eine geringe M{\"o}glichkeit f{\"u}r die Durchsetzung der fraglichen Amnestie, deren G{\"u}ltigkeit durch die wiederaufgeflammten K{\"a}mpfe in Sierra Leone auch faktisch in Frage gestellt worden sind. (trai)},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Knufinke2010,
  author    = {Knufinke, Ulrich},
  title     = {Wilhelm Zeev Haller (1884-1956)},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {16},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-43552},
  pages     = {177 -- 182},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}