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Babashook: The Babadook, Gay Iconography And Internet Cultures, Renee Middlemost
Babashook: The Babadook, Gay Iconography And Internet Cultures, Renee Middlemost
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Upon its 2014 release, Australian film The Babadook (Kent, 2014), gained critical acclaim worldwide. While the film gathered high praise, its domestic release was impeded by a lack of marketing support and ongoing debate about the quality of Australian horror films. By 2015, The Babadook was available to stream on Netflix in the United States, and one would imagine, to gradually fade from view. Yet a seemingly innocent categorization error on Netflix in 2016, which listed The Babadook as an LGBT interest film, resulted in a revival of the film's popularity as a cult film and the emergence of the …
Histories Of Internet Games And Play: Space, Technique, And Modality, Teodor E. Mitew, Christopher L. Moore
Histories Of Internet Games And Play: Space, Technique, And Modality, Teodor E. Mitew, Christopher L. Moore
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
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Michel Hockx, Internet Literature In China, Xiaoping Gao
Michel Hockx, Internet Literature In China, Xiaoping Gao
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
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Do Objects Dream Of An Internet Of Things?, Teodor Mitew
Do Objects Dream Of An Internet Of Things?, Teodor Mitew
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper develops the notion of heteroclite sociable objects in the context of the emerging internet of things, and examines their transformative effect for understandings of sociability and agency. The notion of sociable objects attempts to capture the heterogeneous identity-shift occurring when heretofore obscure and mute objects ranging from toasters to thermostats acquire the agencies to leave semantically distinct traces online, and detour their human interlocutors into an object-mediated entanglement. Using a toolkit drawn from actor network theory and object oriented ontology, the paper discusses several examples illustrating the case for new parameters of sociability, better suited to a materiality …
Review: Ethics Of Internet Research: A Rhetorical Case-Based Approach, Andrew Whelan
Review: Ethics Of Internet Research: A Rhetorical Case-Based Approach, Andrew Whelan
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Ethics of Internet Research is the 59th volume in the Digital Formations series published by Peter Lang and the first volume in that series dedicated to research ethics, a subject not substantively addressed by Digital Formations since 2003's Online Social Research. It is a good companion piece to Digital Media Ethics by Charles Ess, also released in 2009 but published by Polity Press, which concentrates on more 'structural' issues, such as copyright.