Convergence, Ahead of Print. In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. While the data center is a fabrication of engineering, computer sci…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This theoretical and empirical investigation builds upon the concept of ‘slantwise behavior’ to further complicate notions of the ‘digital disengagement’ of subjects within technological infrastructures such as Facebook. It…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines the construction of the artistic identity and career of Ai-Da, ‘the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist’. Engaging with scholarship on posthumanism and creative assemblages, …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines the construction of the artistic identity and career of Ai-Da, ‘the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist’. Engaging with scholarship on posthumanism and creative assemblages, …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. With the accelerated growth of the sim racing industry over the last few years, research on the phenomenon has started to emerge. Nonetheless, the history of sim racing remains unmapped. This study aims to fill the gap by i…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In parallel with the rapid growth of the digital games market, the modding phenomenon has been gaining momentum. Mod culture, a manifestation of the convergence and the remix cultures, emerges as a way to adapt digital game…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire that collected experiences from the Facebook outage on October 4th, 2021, an event that affected approximately three billion users around the globe. The purpose of t…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire that collected experiences from the Facebook outage on October 4th, 2021, an event that affected approximately three billion users around the globe. The purpose of t…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Despite discoverability and prominence emerging as crucial to contemporary industry and policy debates in relation to online and internet-distributed television, there remains relatively little rich, qualitative data about …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Responding to the necessity of scarcity and uniqueness in the digital format, NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have recently gained much attention in cultural industries, especially video games and the art market. Faced with the …