Мechanisms of Political Propaganda in Computer Games: The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Case Study

Student: Aniskov Egor

Educational Programme: Advertising and Public Relations (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This research paper describes the mechanisms of political propaganda used in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game and how such propaganda affects a person’s perception of similar political propaganda in computer games. At the time of writing, the case study of this game was carried out and an online survey was conducted. A similar opportunity to consider the problem from two sides is dictated by the mixed design of the study, and that is why clear and clear results were obtained in the end.

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