The future is Vintage Twists

The future is Vintage Twists

After two wonderful years in Belgium and despite falling a little bit in love with Leuven the time came to come back to the UK to be closer to family, friends and other loved ones. So I’m stepping away from academia and trying my hand at something very different and launching a company called Vintage Twists! Vintage Twists is a brand new venture for me, selling vintage style clothing, lingerie and accessories online. The online shop brings together new retro style clothing from around the world into a one stop shop where you can get an entire outfit from shapewear and stockings, to...

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Call for Papers: “Consuming the ‘Illegal’”

Call for Papers: “Consuming the ‘Illegal’”

Special Issue on Consuming the ‘Illegal’: Situating Online Piracy in Everyday Experience Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Vol 19, no 1, February 2013) Guest editors: Robert Jewitt, University of Sunderland, UK; Jason Rutter, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Majid Yar, University of Hull, UK Research interest on peer-to-peer file...

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New paper on gamers on Twitter

New paper on gamers on Twitter

Following on from my posting about Under the Mask 2011 and the publishing of the slides from my presentation there I’ve managed to finish a written draft of the paper I presented as the academic keynote speaker. I’d been asked by a number of people at the conference (and those following the Twitter feed)...

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Looking ‘Under the Mask’

Looking ‘Under the Mask’

At the beginning of June I was given the opportunity to give the academic keynote address at the annual conference ‘Under the Mask: Perspective on the Gamer‘ at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. This was a really enjoyable event to go to – and indeed, my first games conference for some time. It...

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Qualitative Methods Training

Qualitative Methods Training

I was recently invited to do some training on qualitative research methods for PhD candidates across the social sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven. The modules took place across two days on consecutive weeks where the the students spent the whole day thinking about their approach to qualitative research, developing their research questions...

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Draft programme for ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

Draft programme for ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

The draft programme for European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Consuming the Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy in Everyday Experience’ is now available below. The workshop will take place at The Catholic University of Leuven between Sunday 17th April and Tuesday 19th April, 2011. Bringing researchers from a range of social science disciplines the workshop...

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Moral Panics presentations

Moral Panics presentations

Based on a chapter I’m currently finishing for a book on the morality and digital games I’ve recently been asked to present on games and moral panics. The first was a research seminar at The Faculty of Education at Anglia Ruskin University and more recently at the Research Group for Media & ICT (MICT)...

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