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RMIT University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Screen and Media Culture | Consumption and Everyday Life | Communication and Media Studies | Computer-Human Interaction | Film, Television and Digital Media | Multimedia | Educational Technology And Media |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Broadcasting | Mobile Data Networks and Services | Computer Gaming Software | The Media | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Early childhood education
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Publications
Digital placemaking and networked corporeality: Embodied mobile media practices in domestic space during Covid-19
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-12-2021
Abstract: In contemporary life, the mobile phone is integral to digital and material placemaking practices. In this article, drawing on ethnographic analysis conducted in Perth and Melbourne (Australia) in the first months of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, we explore how this relation has been recalibrated as an effect of ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions. We first provide a brief overview of our methodological and interpretative approach – drawing from postphenomenology as a useful framework for understanding the mobile–body–place relation and digital placemaking at home. Second, we consider how mobile media are ‘situated’ in the domestic environment. Third, through an analysis of participant narratives, we explore the concept of net locality (Gordon and de Souza e Silva (2011) through the lens of embodiment theory and suggest that the Covid-19 context has altered our experience of ‘networked corporeality’. Finally, we discuss the ambiguity of digital intimacy in the decoupling of mobile media and the body as a result of a rapid increase in both screen time and time spent at home. Throughout the article, we argue that mobile media use in the home is thoroughly enmeshed in the shifting boundaries of privacy, placemaking and domestic space. We question how the placemaking functionality of mobile media, the intimate body–technology relation specific to mobile media practices and ‘being-at-home’ were subsequently modified by physical distancing and isolation.
A cultural somatics of mobile media and urban screens: Wiffiti and the IWALL prototype
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Moblogging and belonging: New mobile phone practices and young people's sense of social inclusion
Publisher: ACM
Date: 19-09-2007
Ludic mobilities: The corporealities of mobile gaming
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2010
Review: Multimedia: Texts and Contexts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1970
Mobile media, domestic play and haptic ethnography
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-07-2017
Abstract: In this article, we explore the material, sensory and corporeal aspects of digital ethnography, primarily in the context of mobile media use in the domestic environment. We align our methodological approach to the ‘sensory turn’ in theory, situated loosely under the rubric of new materialism, and outline the insights that a post-phenomenological method can offer. Drawing from our current research into everyday media use conducted within Australian households, which involved a range of data collection methods aimed at capturing the embodiment of mobile media, we explore the significance of play in and around haptic interfaces. Mobile games are evidently integral to our embodied ways of knowing, and there are a number of challenges faced by the mobile media researcher who seeks to document, understand and interpret this contemporary cultural and everyday practice.
Erratum: The multistable ontology of Don Ihde (Metascience (2007) 16:3 DOI: 10.1007/s11016-007-9139-0)
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-07-2009
Mobile Technology and Place
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-05-2013
Gaming in social, locative and mobile media
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Digital Technologies and Online Learning in Primary Education (Australia)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date: 2019
Media and Mediation: A Relational Ontology
Publisher: Peter Lang US
Date: 26-04-2017
Waiting to play: The labour of background games
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-05-2018
Abstract: Mobile smartphone devices have seen the rise and proliferation of a variety of new modes of digital play. In particular, the short and sporadic modes of engagement that define mobile screen practices have seen the smartphone become home to a range of ‘casual’ game genres that promote quick and flexible engagements, in stark contrast to the enduring and committed engagements demanded by home consoles and desktop computer games. People frequently play mobile games while doing other things – waiting at the bus stop, lying in bed and watching television. This has seen the increasing popularity of a new genre of videogame play almost exclusive to mobile platforms: the background game. As we define them, background games require the player to set up a series of tasks which are then completed over a duration of actual hours while the player goes about their day. In this way, such games can be considered ‘ambient’, as they become seamlessly embedded into players’ everyday lives. Drawing from interviews conducted with mobile game players in Brisbane and Perth, this article works to articulate how background games are engaged with within existing practices of mobile and social play to interrogate and complicate existing understandings of ‘play’ and ‘labour’ around digital games.
QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13548565231160623
Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, one technology for contact tracing has come to dominate – QR codes. As a technology pioneered in Japan two decades ago and mainstreamed in China, QR codes have quickly become part of quotidian placemaking. While locations such as China have fully incorporated QR code technology into everyday contexts including public transport and mobile wallet applications, QR codes in the West were relatively overlooked. That was, until the pandemic. In this article, we examine some of the ways QR codes are being imagined and reimagined as part of public placemaking practices. In order to do so, we begin with a short history of QR codes – emerging in Japan, becoming mainstream in China and their consequent uptake globally. We then discuss the methods of our Australian study conducted during the pandemic and the seamful/seamless findings from our study.
Gender-Technology-Trust: Feminist Reflections on Mobile and Social Media Practices
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Haptic play: Rethinking media cultures and practices
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-12-2019
The emergent potential of mundane media: Playing Pokémon GO in Badalona, Spain
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-10-2020
Abstract: In mid-2016, the streets of cities around the world were populated by digital wayfarers taking part in the augmented reality (AR) game, Pokémon GO. The game popularized the digital overlay technique of AR, in which real-time pedestrian movement is integrated with mobile location-based functionality and network information. In the years that followed, playing Pokémon GO gradually became a mundane activity, fitting into the everyday routines of millions of people across the globe. It is at this juncture – when the gameplay became a habitual and unremarkable practice – that the research discussed here began. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Badalona in Spain in 2018–2019, this article explores how sedimented and mundane media – those that are already embedded in daily life routines and typical scenarios of use – can become possible conduits for informal care, wellbeing and social change through playful inclusion and connection.
Pocket Technospaces: the Bodily Incorporation of Mobile Media
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2007
The hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
Abstract: This article examines the hybrid ontologies that typify networked and mobile location-based games, exploring some of the phenomenological, embodied or somatic aspects of the practices and perceptions of ‘mixed reality’ game-play. In particular, it focuses on the potential cultural and corporeal effects of mobile gaming since the introduction of the iPhone and subsequent touchscreens, and the specific technosomatic arrangements such devices demand in everyday life. Mobile media and game-play in both urban and domestic places evoke particular kinds of embodiment, indicative of emergent habitual and quotidian behaviours, gesturings, positionings and choreographies of the body, at times partially determined by the culture of the user, at others by the technical specificities and demands of the interface. Location-based mobile games and applications also modify our experience and perception of ‘being online’, and effectively disassemble the actual/virtual dichotomy of internet ‘being’ into a complex and dynamic range of modalities of presence. Finally, this article suggests that the kind of ontological and ‘containment’ metaphors we use to describe the space of screen-based game-play — in particular, the magic circle, and tropologies of the screen as a fixed window or frame — are ill-suited as descriptors for the complex layering of material and virtual contexts specific to mobile location-based and mixed reality gaming.
Stories from the field: Playing with mobile media
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Distractedly engaged: Mobile gaming and convergent mobile media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
Corporeal Virtuality: The Impossibility of a Fleshless Ontology
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 2002
DOI: 10.16995/BST.243
Mistrust of the City at Night: Networked Connectivity and Embodied Perceptions of Risk and Safety
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Studying mobile media: Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-04-2012
Imaging the VisceralSoma: A Corporeal Feminist Interpretation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2006
Pokémon GO: Mobile media play, place-making, and the digital wayfarer
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2017
Abstract: This special commentary for Mobile Media & Communication seeks to put these isive debates in context. Through the lens of Pokémon GO, we can understand and critically interpret a variety of issues involved in the politics and practice of playful mobile media. These issues move across debates around location-aware technologies in constructions of privacy (Coldewey, 2016 Cunningham, 2016), risk and surveillance (Machkovech, 2016 Mishra, 2016) to the role of mobile media in commodifying (Evangelho, 2016) and expanding the social, cultural, and creative dimensions of play (Isbister, 2016 Mäyrä, 2012). As the mobile media and game theorists in this commentary highlight, the game sits at the nexus of several technological and cultural trajectories: the playful turn the ubiquity of location-based and haptic mobile media (and apps and games) innovative game design the effects of digital mapping technologies the intertwining of performative media games and art our in idual and collective memories of playworlds and transmedia universes the increasing importance of issues concerning privacy and risk in public spaces the ongoing augmentation of place and space and the politics embedded in this hybrid experience of the lifeworld.
The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-04-2018
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