Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article questions the rhetoric of objectivity attached to cartographies of migration and their relationship to a contemporary political context. A search on Google Images for the keywords ‘migration’ + ‘Europe’ allows …
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Joseph Campbell’s classical monomyth claims to describe a universal human narrative: the hero’s journey. For decades, it has commanded a revered position in American literary theory, global media production, and the world o…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In this exploratory paper, we consider the phenomenon of gameplay live streaming by nonhumans. The live streaming of games, exemplified by the platform Twitch.tv, has emerged in recent years as a major and growing component…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article analyses discourses around procedural content generation (PCG) as automation of creativity in the games industry. PCG refers to techniques for creating game content algorithmically, by manipulating data through…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Thumbnails, the small artworks used to visually sort the user interface on Video-on-demand platforms, are personalised and customised for users on prominent Subscription Video-On-Demand platform Netflix. This content strate…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Based on data generated from an ethnography in a video game studio, this article contributes to research on gender and game work by presenting an analysis of the studio’s ethos and aesthetics. The studio’s employees describ…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Temporarily disconnecting from social media has become more widespread in recent years with users choosing to limit or stop engaging with social media platforms for a period of time. There are no published syntheses that in…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This paper contributes to an increasing occupation in media studies with Mobile Virtual Reality (MVR) – a form of ‘wireless’ VR, where all necessary sensing componentry is built into the system’s headset and controllers. Ou…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article argues that virtual reality produces a sense of immersion through embodied parallelism – a technical mediation in which the embodied gestures and movements of a player must correspond to what is represented wit…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Games are trouble. As faculty members in a Game Development program we are aware of the troubles. As inside–outsiders, given our status as queer women in the male-dominated Games field, both with interdisciplinary art-tech-…