Posts Tagged ‘ Academia ’

Call for Papers: “Consuming the ‘Illegal’”

July 10, 2011
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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 exchange through services such as BitTorrent and file lockers such a MegaUpload have tended to view piracy as a product of legislative, criminal, behavioural or business contexts. It has often adopted a priori assumptions that consumers of pirated goods are ‘deviant’, ‘unethical’ or demonstrate consumer...

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New paper on gamers on Twitter

June 14, 2011
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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) for a copy of it so in an attempt to get it out there as soon as possible here it is. I am sure there are still plenty of typos and other signs of rapid workmanship but it gives a flavour of the points I...

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Looking ‘Under the Mask’

June 7, 2011
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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 was great to see that while there was an enthusiasm for playing games amongst the delegates, the work presented successfully worked at placing gaming within a broader cultural context. As the events organiser, Alison Gazzard had brought together an engaging mix of people with some...

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Draft programme for ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

January 31, 2011
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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 aims to develop theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine consumer behaviour, practices and understandings to investigate a phenomenon usually framed as deviant. Presentations will be organised under four themes. Each of these thematic sessions will last for two hours and feature several presentations each of...

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Moral Panics presentations

December 14, 2010
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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) at the University of Ghent. The slides for both of these are now available on my Slideshare account for viewing and download. There is obviously some overlap between the two presentations – but the slides from Ghent are probably more understandable on their own and...

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ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

November 30, 2010
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ESF Exploratory Workshop on Consuming the Illegal

I have secured funding from the last European Science Foundation’s Exploratory Workshop competition for a workshop on piracy. ‘Consuming the Illegal: Situating Digital Piracy in Everyday Experience’ is planned to take place at The Catholic University of Leuven between Sunday 17th April and Tuesday 19th April, 2011. The workshop will include contributions from Fiona Macmillan, David Wall and Majid Yar, placing internet piracy within a context of research on consumption and everyday practice. Bringing researchers from a range of social science disciplines the workshop aims to develop theoretical and methodological perspectives to examine consumer behaviour, practices and understandings to...

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Presentation on Open Access publishing in academia

April 19, 2010
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Presentation on Open Access publishing in academia

Last weekend  (16th-18th April) saw the inaugural meeting of the Pirate Parties International. Taking place in Brussels, the event started of with a tour of the European Parliament along with a talk from the Swedish MEP and Pirate Party member, Christian Engström, and a presentation from me. As is so often the case in such situations things didn’t go exactly to plan and I was left without a projector. However, I’m quite please with the look of the slides so I’ve given them a second chance and popped them on Slideshare for the world to see. The presentation is...

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