1. The document discusses how political discourse occurs through building relationships with non-present others using new digital technologies and modalities. 2. Transworld and transmedia games aim to recreate experiences of engaging with non-present people and places through a sense of "presence in absence" enabled by amodal perception. 3. These spaces may facilitate the development of "glocal" political identities as players have enacting experiences that entangle their actual and possible identities across global and local worlds, past, present and future.

1. New discursive and technological modalities in contemporary politics Patrick J. Coppock, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences. [email_address] http://game.unimore.it

3. “ Presence in Abscence”

10. Actual and Possible Worlds Wp1 Wp2 Wp4 Wp3 Wa Wp5 Wpn Past Present Future

11. Local Cinematographic Playspace

12. Local Videogameplay Space

13. Ludic & Social Media

16. Transworld, Transmedia Gamespace (Twinity)

17. Transworld Transmedia Gamespace (Twinity)

18. Transworld Transmedia Gamespace (Second Life)

19. Antonio Di Pietro in Real Life

20. Antonio Di Pietro in Second Life

21. Transworld Relational Gameplay Space - Facebook

22. Barack Obama Fan Page

23. White House Fan Page

24. Jens Stoltenberg Fan Page

25. Silvio Berlusconi Fan Page

26. ‘ Uccidoiamo Berlusconi’ Page

27. Dario Franceschini Fan Page

28. Transworld Semantic Gameplay Space -Twitter

29. Iran Post-Election Protests