Outputs (22)

New Media - A Critical Introduction (2009)
Book

This is a Second Edition of a book first co authored for 2003. The book offers students conceptual frameworks for thinking through a range of key issues which have arisen over two decades of speculation on the cultural implications of new media .

Simulating the public sphere (2008)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I argue that formatted reality television game shows like Big Brother (Channel 4 2000 - ) and popular TV documentary formats like Wife Swap (Channel Four 2002 -) and Faking It (Channel Four 1999 -) might be best understood as simula... Read More about Simulating the public sphere.

Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
Journal Article

The changes in traditional patterns of media production and consumption brought about by digital technologies in their networked form pose challenges to both practitioners and theorists. As the practices of mass media dissolve into the processes of t... Read More about Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies.

Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people's individual relation to technics as much as understanding class, r... Read More about Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content.

Technicity: power and difference in game cultures (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people’s individual relation to technics as much as understanding geograph... Read More about Technicity: power and difference in game cultures.

Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games (2006)
Book Chapter

This chapter, fully collaborative from inception to completion, was conceived as way of interrogating the critical aporia in current game studies around understanding gameplay pleasures and engagements. This was the first piece of published research... Read More about Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games.

Games culture: Computer games as new media (2006)
Book

New Media: A Critical Introduction (2003)
Book

How do you play? Identity technology and Ludic culture
Preprint / Working Paper

A very broad ranging paper based on research undertaken for the Dovey & Kennedy book 'Game Cultures' (2006; McGraw Hill). It is quite a good background resource for thinking about cultures and theories of play in technoculture.

When television became old
Preprint / Working Paper

Short conference paper that discusses the emergent form of Web Drama within the context of the disciplinary debates about Media Studies 2.0.