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FCJ-171 Expectations denied: Fan and industry conflict around the localisation of the Japanese video game Yakuza 3
Craig Norris University of Tasmania [Abstract] 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 are making to these large media franchises. As Joshua Green and Henry Jenkins (2009: 213) have pointed out, ‘fans have been redefined as the drivers of wealth production within the new digital economy: their engagement and participation is actively being pursued.’ As this research has shown, although audiences engage deeply and passionately with these large fictional worlds there is a growing expectation among fans that they will have some freedom to use and access this content in a way which best suits them. Within this context, online fan cultures have provided researchers with a…
FCJ-170 Challenging Hate Speech With Facebook Flarf: The Role of User Practices in Regulating Hate Speech on Facebook
Benjamin Abraham University of Western Sydney [Abstract] 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 Video Games,’ which included photoshopped images of Sarkeesian made to appear bruised and brutalised, (Lewis, 2012) to the abuse directed at the activist Caroline Criado-Perez following her campaign to have a woman represented on a UK banknote (Guardian Staff, 2014), to the countless instances of more pernicious ‘Everyday Sexism’ documented by the activist group of the same name. As a result of these and a host of similar recent events, it has become increasingly apparent that online abuse and instances of hate speech directed at women, people of colour, transgender individuals and other minorities…
FCJ-169 Mapping Moving-Image Culture: Topographical Interface and YouTube
Stephen Monteiro The American University of Paris [Abstract] 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 devices including smartphones, tablets, and netbooks are as much navigational instruments as they are communicative tools (Verhoeff, 2012; Farman, 2011). These devices and their effects are meant to get us places, whether objectively through geo-positioning and locative technologies or subjectively through operations and platforms that retrieve, analyse, and display data in response to our commands and presumed goals. In theorizing interfaces, Alexander Galloway points to effects as their critical component. ‘Interfaces are not simply objects or boundary points. They are autonomous zones of activity. Interfaces are not things, but rather processes that effect a…
FCJ-168 Do objects dream of an internet of things?
Teodor Mitew University of Wollongong [Abstract] 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 a voice of Daedalus, made of wood, but I came here by walking on my own’. (Daston, 2004: 39) I may speak with the voice of my maker, but I came here on my own. I may be enunciating the agency of another, but have agency of my own too. In the Greek view of being, possessing a spirit was synonymous with having a voice, and therefore entities that appeared to be superficially inanimate yet had a voice signaled a transgression of the rules of occupancy, a deviation from the parameters of being, a…
Issue 23: General Issue
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 anymore, or are they just too busy publishing their own more immediate thoughts in order not to perish. Is publishing an encouragement to think, or to engagement with the community of scholars and beyond, or it is just a matter of scoring points for interested parties? Does audit work against inventiveness in publishing? Does it especially work against open access and online publishing? Does audit, ironically, take the “communication” and even sometimes the “scholarly” out of scholarly communication? Is research audit dehumanising research in the humanities? More people I talk to these days seem to…
CFP: Digital and Networked Media – Contemporary Issues and Events
CFP: Digital and Networked Media- Contemporary Issues and Events https://fibreculturejournal.org/ https://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-contemporaryissuesevents Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only abstract deadline: August 8, 2014 article deadline: September 10, 2014 publication: December, 2014 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: a.murphie@unsw.edu.au The Fibreculture Journal invites submissions for the Digital and Networked Media—Contemporary Issues and Events issue. The issue will be published in 2014 so please note that the deadlines are short and final. It will suit authors with already close-to-finished, high-level papers that are ready for submission and looking for publication in 2014. The Editors are looking for work that discusses key contemporary issues and events in digital and networked media, and/or work that engages in transversal critique in areas related to digital and networked media. Although we will accept articles of usual…
CFP – Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements- activism and technology
[please circulate] Call For Papers- June 2014_Entanglements: Activism and Technology (PDF) https://fibreculturejournal.org/ https://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp_entanglements/ —- Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted) Article deadline: November 3 2014 Publication aimed for: February 2015 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea@qub.ac.uk This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony. In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea…
CFP – Issue 23 Fibreculture Journal: Creative Robotics: Rethinking Human–Machine Configurations
[please circulate] Call For Papers 2014: Creative Robotics (PDF) https://fibreculturejournal.org/ CFP – Issue 23 Fibreculture Journal: Creative Robotics: Rethinking Human–Machine Configurations —– Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts only Editors: Petra Gemeinboeck, Jill Bennett and Elena Knox abstract deadline: April 25, 2014 article deadline: July 31, 2014 publication aimed for: November, 2014 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at: https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: petra@unsw.edu.au “If one thinks of a classic ‘upstairs/downstairs’ scenario, it is no longer clear where the robots will be lodging” (Turkle, 2010) We are on the verge of a robotic revolution, a revolution that has long been foreshadowed by science fiction such as Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots) in 1920 and Isaac Asimov’s first collection of stories I, Robot in 1950. Today, robots are infiltrating our everyday lives, in the form…
New Issue: Issue 22 Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet
We have a habit (becoming a running quip), in the FCJ management group, of proclaiming that we feel we’ve turned a corner with the launch of each new issue. Speaking personally, I think I’m finally coming to terms with the fact that each issue presents a unexpected series of corners and that the act of negotiating them continually makes and remakes the journal. Each time we think we have the circuit well mapped out, documented and with all contingency accounted for, some unexpected challenge emerges. As we progress through the production of coming issues I will remind myself that in the end, the remarkable distributed effort that goes into publishing, all of it volunteered, inevitably results in a substantial contribution in the theory and analysis of media and technical cultures. Moreover, I will remind myself that, in the determination to make that contribution, and in the drive to realise it,…
‘Cyber-safety’: what are we actually talking about?
By Glen Fuller, University of Canberra This article was written by Fibreculture editor Glen Fuller and originally published by The Conversation. It has some relevance to Issue 22:Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet that Glen co-edited with Jason Wilson and Christain McCrea and is republished here with permission under a CC-BY-ND licence. Please see The Conversation for terms and conditions of republishing this article. The rise of social media tools and accessories has allowed us to be “always on” and “always connected”. The impact of this technological change is primarily social, and so far our communities have not come to terms with what these changes mean. The increased degree of contact poses a number of serious challenges for established social norms of civility. The federal government’s current discussion paper about cyber-safety is concerned with the “cyber-safety” of children. As Paul Fletcher, parliamentary secretary to communications minister Malcolm Turnbull,…
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