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FCJManager has written 6 posts for The Fibreculture Journal : 23
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FCJ-172 Posthumanism, Technogenesis, and Digital Technologies: A Conversation with N. Katherine Hayles

By ⋅ December 15, 2014 ⋅ One comment

Holger Pötzsch UiT Tromsø N. Katherine Hayles Duke University Holger Pötzsch: Katherine Hayles, your idea of posthumanism is inspired by cybernetics and by a new attentiveness to the body and materiality? N. Katherine Hayles: Posthumanism as I define it in my book How We Became Posthuman (1999) was in part about the deconstruction of the […]

FCJ-171 Expectations denied: Fan and industry conflict around the localisation of the Japanese video game Yakuza 3

By ⋅ December 15, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Craig Norris University of Tasmania Introduction As various scholars (Jenkins, 2006a; Ito, 2007; Gray, 2010) have shown, fans can derive creative and emotional pleasure out of the ‘world building’ occurring in complex media franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean (Jenkins, 2007), and Star Wars (Brooker, 2002). Media industries are also increasingly valuing the contributions fans […]

FCJ-170 Challenging Hate Speech With Facebook Flarf: The Role of User Practices in Regulating Hate Speech on Facebook

By ⋅ December 7, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Benjamin Abraham University of Western Sydney Introduction A recent spate of high profile cases of online abuse has raised awareness of the amount, volume and regularity of abuse and hate speech that women and minorities routinely attract online. These range from the responses garnered by Anita Sarkeesian’s (2012; 2014) video series ‘Tropes vs. Women in […]

FCJ-169 Mapping Moving-Image Culture: Topographical Interface and YouTube

By ⋅ December 7, 2014 ⋅ One comment

Stephen Monteiro The American University of Paris Navigation and mobility are defining characteristics of the contemporary media experience. Unlike the rigid, easily learned parameters of earlier media forms, global digital networks offer increasingly complex and constantly changing exchanges, formations, and compilations of information. Through a combination of hardware design and integrated software a range of […]

FCJ-168 Do objects dream of an internet of things?

By ⋅ December 4, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Teodor Mitew University of Wollongong Heteroclite I: Hermes, a walking statue In a fragment of a comedy by Plato Comicus, a statue of Hermes stumbles onstage and must answer the skeptic’s question: ‘Who are you? Tell me at once. Why are you silent? Won’t you speak?’ To which the statue replies, ‘I am Hermes, with […]

Issue 23: General Issue

By ⋅ December 3, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Imagine there’s no audit. It might be easy if we try. Are audit culture and performance management suffocating research in the humanities, rather than energising it? Are they pushing the work of publication toward an emphasis on pressured writing, ranking, measuring citations and h-indexes and so on? Does anyone actually read the work of others […]