Counter hegemonic action in multi-player online computer games

“Velvet-Strike” is an online campaign inflitrating the multiplayer computer game “Counter-Strike”. Velvet-strikers have been painting anti-war and anti-volience graffiti, such as pictures of soliders kissing each other, inside the Counter-Strike virtual world. Avid players bemoan what they see as an encroachment of political ideology in the gamespace.

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