Publications

Publications produced in part or in whole by members of the ACT Lab, since the lab was founded in Fall 2003, arranged alphabetically (by first author where applicable).

BENDOR

Book Chapter

Bendor, R. (2007). ‘On Cannibalists and Sociolinguistics: Cultural Cannibalism as a Critical Theory of Hybridity,’ in E. Anchimbe (ed.) Linguistic Identities in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Articles

Bendor, R. (2006). ‘Digesting Globalization: Demarcation, Hybridization and Power.’ TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (no.16). Available from: http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/03_2/bendor16.htm

Bendor, R. (2006). ‘Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power.’ [Book Review] Canadian Journal of Communication 31(3). Available from: http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=1606&layout=html

Presentations

‘The Operationalization of Civil Society: CIDA and the Associational Terrain of Democracy’. Paper presented at Intersections 2006: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes. March 2006, Toronto, ON.

‘Digesting Development: Demarcation, Hybridization and Power’. Paper presented at Innovations and Reproductions of Cultures and Societies (IRICS). December 2005, Vienna, Austria.

CHEE

Edited Books

Kim, S. D., and F. Chee (Eds.). (2004). Mobile Communication and Social Change: 2004 International Conference on Mobile Communication. Seoul, Korea: Institute for Communication Arts & Technology, Hallym University.

Book Chapters

Chee, F, & R. Smith (2007). "Online gamers and the ambiguity of community: Korean definitions of togetherness for a new generation." Paper selected for publication in (Eds.) M. Consalvo and M. Haythornthwaite. AOIR INternet Annual, Volume 4. 

Chee, F., M. Vieta, & R. Smith. (2006). Online gaming and the interactional self: Identity interplay in situated practice. In J. P. Williams, S. Q. Hendricks & W. K. Winkler (Eds.), Gaming as culture: Social reality, identity and experience in role-playing, collectible, and computer games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing.

Chee, F., & R. Smith. (2005). Is electronic community an addictive substance? An ethnographic offering from the EverQuest community. In S. Schaffer & M. Price (Eds.), Interactive Convergence in Multimedia - Probing the boundaries (Vol. 10): The Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Articles

Chee, F. (2006) "The games we play online and offline: making Wang-tta in Korea." Journal of Popular Communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Vol. 4, No.3.

Conference Proceedings

Chee, F. (2005). "Understanding Korean experiences of online game hype and identity and the menace of the "Wang-tta,"" Selected Papers of Changing Views: Worlds at Play, Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) International Conference, pp. 111-122

Presentations and Lectures 

"Apollo and Dionysus Meet Korean Online Game Communities." Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2006.

"France’s Videotex and Korean online games: two case studies of technology policy as myth, modernity, and mess. Technology, Management, and Policy Graduate Consortium, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2006.

"The role of Korean cultural industries in excessive game play." Western Canadian Communication Graduate Conference, Nelson, Canada, March 2006.

"Everyday lives and games in Korea: finding communities with new media ethnography." Invited presentation, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2005.

"Online gamers and the ambiguity of community: Korean definitions of togetherness for a new generation." Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR): Internet Generations 6.0, Chicago, USA, October 2005.  Co-presented with R. Smith.

"Questioning the future of policy on addiction to online games: an ethnography of the visible, invisible, and transparent in Korea." Technology and Policy Program Graduate Consortium,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, USA, June 2005. * Winner of Faculty award for "Best Masters Research Presentation"

"Game play at work: media and motivation in a Korean context." Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference, London, Canada, June 2005.

"Proposing and preparing a research project – experiences from Korea." Invited Lecturer, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005.

"The social club redefined: an ethnographic analysis of online game addiction in Korea." Western Canadian Communication Graduate Conference Nelson, Canada, March 2005.

"Identity and addiction: looking at online game play in Korea." Invited Lecturer, Hallym University, Department of Communication, Chuncheon, Korea, October 2004.

"Online Game Communities and the Interactional Self: Modes of Mediation and the possibility of integrated personhood." Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference Winnipeg, Canada, June 2004.  Co-presented with M. Vieta.

"Moral Panic, Ideology, and the Online Game EverQuest." Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA): Level Up, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 2003.  Co-presented with R. Smith.

"EverQuest and its implications for addiction policy." Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AOIR): Broadening the Band, Toronto, Canada.  October 2003. Co-presented with R. Smith.

"Games addiction and its discontents: An ethnographic offering from the EverQuest Community." First Global Conference on Interactive Convergence: Research in Multimedia, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2003.  Co-presented with R. Smith.

"Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance?" Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference Halifax, Canada, June 2003.  Co-presented with R. Smith.

CHUNG

Articles 

Chung, G. & S. M. Grimes. (2005) "Cool Hunting the Kids’ Digital Playground: Surveillance and the Privacy Debates in Children’s Online Entertainment Sites." Canadian Journal of Communication, forthcoming.

Chung, G.. (2005) "New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality." [Book Review] Canadian Journal of Communication, v.30, n.1  

Presentation

Chung, G. & S. M. Grimes. (2005), "Cool Hunting the Kids’ Digital Playground: Datamining and the Privacy Debates in Children’s Online Entertainment Sites," in Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-38. Big Island, Hawaii: IEEE.

CRESSMAN

Book Chapter

Friesen, N. & Cressman, D. (2007). The Political Economy of Technical E-Learning Standards. In Koolhang, A. (ed.), Learning Objects: Theories, Praxis, Issues & Trends. Warsaw: Informing Science Press. pp.507-526

Presentations and Lectures

"The mp3 & Sociotechnical Forms of Music: Agency & Experience". (Re) Inventing the Internet.  Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. February 2007.

First International Colloquium, "Playful Identities: Research Methods and Digital Media". Erasmus University, Rotterdam NL, September 2006. 

"Technology & The Good Life: Technical Codes & Formal Bias" Presentation given at the University of Twente NL, Department of Philosophy, September 2006.

"Critical theory of technology, technological rationality and communications technology” New Approaches to communication technologies: The critical theory of technology.    Canadian Communication Association.  York University, North York, Ontario. 2006.

"The Experiential Dimension of Online Learning: Technology, Phenomenology & Breakdowns" Glimpse:Proceedings of the Society for Phenomenology & Media. 2005.    Co-presented with E. Hamilton.

"Black Boxing Information and Communications Technology: Users, Designers & Function" Canadian Communication Association.  University of Western Ontario, London ON, June 2005.

"Understanding The Phenomenology of Technology & Educational Media through Breakdowns."  The Society for Phenomenology & Media Annual Conference, Western Oregon University. May 2005.

FEENBERG

Books

Feenberg, A & Leiss, W. (2006). The Essential Marcuse. Beacon Press.

Feenberg, A. (2005). Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History. London: Routledge.

Feenberg, A. & Barney, D., eds. (2004). Community in the Digital Age. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Feenberg, A., Misa, T. & Breij, P., eds. (2003). Modernity and Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Book Chapters

Feenberg, A. (under submission) “Reflections on the Distance Learning Controversy,” Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging, T. Engström, ed.

Feenberg, A (under submission). “Experiencing Surveillance: A Phenomenological Approach,” with Grace Chung and Norm Friesen.

Feenberg, A (under submission). “Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Realization of Design Possibilities,” with Patrick Feng, Designing: from philosophy to ethics, from engineering to architecture, eds. P. E. Vermaas, P. Kroes, A. Light, S. A. Moore, Springer Verlag. 

Feenberg, A. (forthcoming). “Active and Passive Bodies: Comments on Don Ihde’s Bodies in Technology,”Expanding Phenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde, E. Selinger, ed., Albany: SUNY.

Feenberg, A. & Hamilton, E (forthcoming).  “The Technical Codes of Online Education,” in Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet, J. Lockard and M. Pegrum, eds., Peter Lang.

Feenberg, A. (2006), "What Is Philosophy of Technology," in Defining Technological Literacy, J. Dakers, ed., Palgrave, pp. 5-16.

Feenberg, A. (2005). “Le Mouvement Ecologiste et la Politique de la Technologie.” Ecologie et Socialisme, Lowy, M. (ed.), Editions Syllepse. Pp. 45-80.

Feenberg, A. (2005). “Online Education and the Choices of Modernity.” Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millenium. Hershock, P., Stepaniants, M., & Ames, R. (eds.), University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 528-547.

Feenberg, A. (2004). "The Technocracy Thesis Revisited." Rasmussen, D. & Swindal, J. (eds.), Critical Theory. London: Sage. Pp. 276-292.

Feenberg, A. & Bakardjieva, M. (2004). “The Online Community Debate: Citizens or Consumers?” Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice. Feenberg, A. and Barney D. (eds.), Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 1-28.

Feenberg, A. “Online Education and the Choices of Modernity,” (2004). Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millenium, P. Hershock, M. Stepaniants, R. Ames, eds. University of Hawaii Press, pp. 528-547.

Feenberg, A. “Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Reflections on the 20th Century,” (2204). Globalization, Technology and Philosophy, D. Tabachnik and T. Koivukoski, eds., SUNY, pp. 93-105.

Feenberg, A., Bakardjieva, M. & Goldie, J. (2003). "User-Centered Internet Research: The Ethical Challenge," Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Buchanan, E.A. (ed.), Hershey, PA: Idea Group. Pp. 338-350.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap.” Modernity and Technology, Feenberg, A., Misa, T. & Breij, P. (eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 73-104.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of Enlightenment.” Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader. Abromeit, J. & Cobb W. M. (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 67-80. (Translated as Feenberg, A. (2003).

"Heidegger und Marcuse: Zerfall und Rettung der Aufklärung.” Kritische Theorie der Technik und der Natur, G. Bohme and A. Manzei, eds., Frankfurt: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003. Pp. 39-53.) Chinese version in Marxism and Reality (马克思主义与现实), 2005, pp. 69-76.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Technology in a Global World,” in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology. Figueroa R. & Harding S. (eds.), Routledge. Pp. 237-251.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power and Democracy.” Technology and the Human Condition: A Philosophy of Technology Reader. Scharff, R., & Dusek, V. (eds.), London: Blackwell. Pp. 652-665.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “The Possible Futures of Technology in China,” in Sarai Reader 03, The Sarai Programme, 2-6.

Articles

Feenberg, A. & Xin, C. (forthcoming) Pedagogy in cyberspace: The dynamics of online discussion. In Canadian Journal of Distance Education, Summer 2006. 

Feenberg, A. (forthcoming) “The Rational Critique of Rationality,” Social Epistemology, under submission; Chinese version in the Review of Science & Culture, 2006.

Feeberg, A. & Friesen, N. (forthcoming). “Ed Tech in Reverse: Information Technologies and the Cognitive Revolution.” Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Feenberg, A. & Hamilton, E. (forthcoming), “The Technical Codes of Online Education,” eLearning, forthcoming, 2006.

Feenberg, A. “Pedagogy in Cyberspace: The Dynamics of Online Discussion,” (2006). with Cindy Xin, Canadian Journal of Distance Education, summer.

Feenberg, A. & Hamilton, E. “The Technical Codes of Online Education.” Techne, Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Fall 2005, 9:1, pp. 94-123.

Feenberg, A. (2005). “Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview.” Tailor-Made Bio Technologies, 1(1). (Translated as “Theoria Critica de la Tecnologia.” CTS - Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Sociedad. 2(5), 109-123, 2005; translated as ‘Theoria critica da tecnologia: um panorama,” Revista Brasileira de Linguistica, vol. 13, no. 1, 2005, pp. 85-102.)  [Download pdf , 634Kb]

Feenberg, A. & Bakardjieva, M. (2004). “Virtual Community – No ‘Killer Implication.’” New Media. 6(1), 37-43.

Feenberg, A. “La ensenyament Online i les Opcions de Modernitat,” (2004). Quaderns d’Educació Contínua, no. 8, pp. 7-26.

Feenberg, A. (2005). “Marcuse e Habermas: Duas Criticas da Tecnologia.” Aula Virtual, 7(2).

Feenberg, A. (2005). “Racionalizacao Subversiva: Tecnologia, Poder e Democracia.” Aula Virtual e Democracia, 4(1).

Feenberg, A. "Hacia dondé debe ir la tecnologia educativa?" (2004), Qurriculum, 17, pp. 47-55.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Tekunoroji ha kati to gattai dekiruka? — Jidai no mondai ni taisuru Maruku-ze no kai tou” in Jouhou Mondai Kenkyu.

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Pragmatism and Critical Theory.” Techne, Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, 7(1), 42-48.

Feenberg, A. (2003) “Active and Passive Bodies: Comments on Don Ihde’s Bodies in Technology,” Techne: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, winter 2003.

Feenberg, A. (2003). "Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap," in Modernity and Technology, MIT Press, pp. 73-104. Chinese version in Marxism and Reality, 2005.  [Download pdf , 5.42MB]

Feenberg, A. (2003). "Heidegger und Marcuse: Zerfall und Rettung der Aufklarung," in Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, Vol. 14, pp. 39-55.

Feenberg, A. (2003), “The Possible Futures of Technology in China,” in Sarai Reader 03, The Sarai Programme, pp. 2-6; and at http://www.sarai.net/

Feenberg, A. (2003), "Pragmatism and Critical Theory," Techne 7:1 Fall, pp. 42-48, http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n1/feenberg.html

Conference Proceedings

Feenberg, A. (2003). “Pragmatism and Critical Theory of Technology,” Proceedings for the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy International Symposium on Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Technology in the 21st Century, pp. 115-125.

Presentations and Lectures

"Response to Dahlstrom and Scharff," American Philosophical Association, New York, 2005.

"The Rational Critique of Rationality," University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy; Philosophy Department, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 2005. 

"Technology in a Global World," Humanities Department, University of Kansai, Osaka, Japan, 2003; University of Technology and Architecture, Xian, China, 2004.

"Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of Enlightenment," Philosophy Department, University of British Columbia, 2003.

"The Online Community Debate," Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2003, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 2005.

"Shenyang Lectures on Critical Theory of Technology," Northeast China University, 2004.

"Values and the Environment," President’s Address, Simon Fraser University, 2004; Science and Society Lecture Series, University of British Columbia, 2004.

"Democratizing Technology," Crankbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, 2003.

Panelist, "Choices and Challenges: Big Brother Technologies," Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2003.

"Critical Constructivism: A New Approach in Philosophy of Technology," Science and Society Group, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2003.

"Four Lectures on Heidegger and Marcuse," University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2003.

"Critical Theory of Technology," Textologies Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 2004; Conference on Modernity in Milieux and Technique, Kansai Daigaku, Osaka, 2004; Tavola Rotonda intorno al volume di Andrew Feenberg: Tecnologia in discussione, Università dgli Studi di Roma, 2005; Critical Approaches to Technology: Past, Present and Future, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2005, Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, 2005, Delft, Holland; Democratizing Technology Conference, University of Hokkaido, 2005.

"Groupware for Community," with Maria Bakardjieva, Society for Social Studies of Science, Paris, 2004.

Panelist, "Twenty years after ‘The social construction of facts and artefacts’: The past, present, and future of SCOT," Society for Social Studies of Science, Paris, 2004.

"Heidegger, Marcuse and the Philosophy of Technology," Philosophy Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2004; Vancouver Workshop of the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2004.

"The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic, Herbert Marcuse," D.G. Wills Book and UCSD-TV Presentation, August 24 2007. [Quick Time Video ]

FELCZAK

Book Chapters

Maxwell, J. and Felczak, M. (forthcoming). “Success Through Simplicity: On Developmental
Writing and Communities of Inquiry,” in Cummings, R. E. and Barton, M. (eds.) Wiki Writing: Educators on Collaborative Writing and Learning. Ann Arbor, MI: digitalculturebooks.

Articles

Felczak, M., Lorimer, R., Smith, R. (2007). “From Production to Publishing at CJC Online:
Experiences, Insights, and Considerations for Adoption.” First Monday, 12(10).

Felczak, M. (2003). “The Hypercomplex Society.” [Book Review] Canadian Journal of
Communication, 30(1).

Presentations and Lectures

“Communication Rights, Enclosure, and the Politics of Network Neutrality.” Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Annual Conference: Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication, and the Global City. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 25-28, 2007.

“Designing the Future Internet: Commercialization, Control, and Technical Representation.” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference: Internet Research 8.0. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 18-20, 2007.

“A Case Study of Online Publishing at CJC Online: Experiences, Insights, and Considerations for Adoption.” Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publising Conference. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. July 11-13, 2007. Presented with Lorimer, R. and Smith, R.

“Citizenship, Standards, and the Government Online Initiative.” British Columbia Library Association Information Policy Committee. Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia. Mar. 16, 2007. Presented with Smith, R.

“Communication, Commercialization, and Control: A Critical Constructivist Approach to Internet Neutrality.” (Re)Inventing the Internet: Critical Case Studies. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Feb. 23, 2007.

“Agency, Locality, and Representation in Proprietary and Open Source Software: Silences, Voices, and Concretizations.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference: Silence, Suffering and Survival. Vancouver, British Columbia. Nov. 1-5, 2006. Presented with Feenberg, A.

“(Re)Designing the Internet: A Critical Constructivist Analysis of the Next Generation Internet Protocol.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. York University, North York, Ontario. June 1-3, 2006.

“Closed Systems and Open Possibilities: The Internet of the Past, Present, and Future.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. Univerisity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June 1-3, 2004.

GRIMES

Articles

Narine, Neil. and Grimes, Sara M. (2009). "The Turbulent Rise of the ‘Child Gamer’: Public Fears and Corporate Promises in Cinematic and Promotional Depictions of Children’s Digital Play." Communication, Culture & Critique. Volume 2 (3), 319-338. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cccr/2009/00000002/00000003/art00003

Grimes, Sara M. and Andrew Feenberg (2009) “Rationalizing Play: A Critical Theory of Digital Gaming.” The Information Society,  25(2). pp. 105-118. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01972243.asp

Grimes, Sara M. (2008). Saturday Morning Cartoons Go MMOG. Media International Australia (126), Special Issue: Beyond Broadcasting: TV for the Twenty-first Century.
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/

Grimes, Sara M. (2008). Kids’ Ad Play: Regulating Children’s Advergames in the Converging Media Context. International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, 8 (12). pp.162-178.  http://www.ijclp.net/

Grimes, Sara M. (2007). Researching the Researchers: Market Researchers, Child Subjects and the Problem of "Informed" Consent. International Journal of Internet Research Ethics 1(1). http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire/issue_1.1.html

Consalvo, M., Grimes, S. M. and H. Kennedy (2007). “Commentary and Criticism: Digital Games and Gender.”Feminist Media Studies 7(1). pp. 97-110  

Grimes, S. M. (2006). "Online Multiplayer Gaming: A Virtual Space for Intellectual Property Debates? New Media & Society 8(6): 969-990.  

Chung, G. and S. M. Grimes (2005). Data Mining the Kids: Surveillance and Market Research Strategies in Children’s Online Games. Canadian Journal of Communication 30(4): 527-548.

Grimes, S. M. & Shade, Leslie R. (2005). "Neopian Economics of Play: Children’s Cyberpets and Online Communities as Immersive Advertising in Neopets.com." International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 1(2):181-198.

Grimes, S. M. (2004). "Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy: by Janet Wasko" [Book Review], Canadian Journal of Communication 29(2):238-240.   

Book Chapters

Grimes, S. M. (2007). "Terms of Service, Terms of Play in Children’s Online Gaming." In Williams, Patrick and Jonas Heide Smith (Eds.) The Players’ Realm: Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming, pp.33-55. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Other Contributions

Grimes, Sara M. (2007). "Expanding Universes." The Escapist (111), August 21: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_111/1360-Expanding-Universes

Grimes, Sara M. (2007). “Mining the Game.” The Escapist (86), February 27: 13-15. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/86/13

Presentations and Lectures

"Deconstructing the Girl Gamer: From the Girls’ Games Movement to Rule of Rose." Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. June 4-6, 2008.

“The Exploitation of Children’s Affective Labour in Corporately Owned Virtual Worlds." Joint Annual Meetings of Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association. Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec. May 29-June 1, 2008.

“Branding Children’s Play: Mapping the Commercial Convergence of Media, Toys and Gaming in Virtual Worlds for Kids.” Annual Summit of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), Judge Baker’s Children Centre, Harvard University, Wheelock College, Boston, MA.[Invited keynote presentation]. April 3-5, 2008. 

“Saturday Morning Cartoons Go MMOG: Children’s television and the construction of the player as commodity.” paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Annual Conference: Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication, and the Global City. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 25-28, 2007.

“Saturday Morning Cartoons Go MMOG: Cross-media integration, branded play and the migration of children’s television to massively multiplayer online gaming.” paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) Annual Conference 8: Let’s Play. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 18-20, 2007 

"Researching the Researchers: Market Research, Child Subjects and the Problem of ‘Informed’ Consent." Trials & Tribulations: Negotiating Research Methods in Cyberspace Symposium, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. November 10-11, 2006.

“Reconfiguring Regulation Panel.” Converging in Parallel: Linking Communications Research and Policy in Emerging Canadian Scholarship, McGill University,  Montreal, Quebec. November 9-10, 2006.

"Violent Video Games Debate." Invited presentation, Knowledge: States of Nature, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec. November 8, 2006.

"Modernity’s Child at Play: Digital Gaming as Productive Leisure or Wasted Time," paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference, Arlington, Virginia, Co-presented with A. Narine. Apr. 19-22, 2006. 

"Playtime is over! Children’s digital gaming as productive leisure or wasted time" paper presented at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Co-presented with A. Narine. Apr. 13-16, 2006. 

“Issues in Digital Game Studies.” Guest lecture, CMNS 253: Introduction to Information Technology: The New Media, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. June 26, 2006.

"No Fair!": Intellectual Property and Cultural Participation in Children’s Online Gaming” paper presented at Changing Views: Worlds in Play Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. June 16-20, 2005.

”It’s SO Much Fun”: Online Games as Child’s Play in Toontown, Neopets and EverythingGirl.com” paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, San Diego, California. March 23-26, 2005.

“Children’s Online Culture.” Guest lecture, CMNS 320: Children, Media and Culture, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.  February 24, 2005.

“The Video Games Industry.” Guest lecture, CMNS 230: Cultural Industries, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. February 3, 2005.

"Cool Hunting the Kids’ Digital Playground: Datamining and the Privacy Debates in Children’s Online Entertainment Sites”,Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38) Conference Proceedings, Waikola, Hawaii. Co-presentation with G. Chung. January 3-6, 2005.

"The Political Economy of Online Gaming: A Virtual Space for Intellectual Property Debates?" paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June 3-7, 2004.

"You Shoot Like A Girl!": The Female Protagonist in Action-Adventure Video Games", paper resented at Level Up!: Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) International Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 4-6, 2003.

HAMILTON

Book Chapters 

Hamilton, E. Going solo: Narratives of the missing and the searching. S. Edmonds & S. Hermant (Eds.). D’Or. Vancouver: The Or Gallery.

Hamilton, E. (2003). There’s no such thing as free luck. Production, Consumption, Function. Vancouver: The Helen Pitt Gallery.

Articles 

Hamilton, E., Xin, C. & Feenberg, A. (2005). Online education: New approaches to history and theory. Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory Monograph Series No. 1. Vancouver: Simon Fraser University.

Hamilton, E. & Feenberg, A. (2005). The technical codes of online education. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology.Vol. 9, No. 1 (Fall, 2005). Special Issue: Education and Citizenship in the Digital Age. D. Baird & A. Gordon (Eds.). Online: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v9n1/hamilton.html

Hamilton, E. (2002). Putting the demos back into democracy: Indymedia and illusions of democratisation in the information age. KilometerZero 3 (Fall, 2002). Paris: KilometerZero. 88-91.

MILBERRY

Book Chapter

Milberry, K. (forthcoming). ‘Hacking for social justice’ in A. Feenberg & N. Freissen (Eds.) (Re)Inventing the Internet.

Articles

Milberry, K. (2007). "The wiki way: Anticipating change, practicing democracy." Tailoring Biotechnologies. http://www.tailoringbiotechnologies.com/volume_3.html#Issue%201

Milberry, K. (2006) "Reconstructing the Internet: How Social Justice Activists Contest Technical Design in Cyberspace," M/C Journal, 9(1), available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0603/10-milberry.php

Milberry, K. (2006) ‘Gatewatching: Collaborative online news production’ [book review]. Canadian Journal of Communication 31(3): 330. http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=172

Presentations and Lectures

"Geeks and global justice: Tech activism and the democratic rationalization of the Internet". Presentation at Web of Change technology conference, Cortes Island, BC. (August, 2006).

"The history of tech activism". Presentation at BarCamp technology conference, Vancouver, BC. (June, 2006).

"Tech activism in the global justice movement: Geeks, wikis and IMC". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Communication Association, Toronto, Ontario. (September 2006).

“Technology, rationality and power: The politics of technology and the theory of the technical code”. Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association. York University, North York, Ontario.  (June 2006).

“Tech activists, indymedia and Feenberg’s instrumentalization theory”. Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association. York University, North York, Ontario.  (June 2006).

NARINE

Articles

Narine, Neil. (2010). "Global Trauma and Narrative Cinema." Theory, Culture & Society. Volume 27 (4). pp. 119-145. http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/27/4/119.abstract

Narine, Neil. (2010) "Global Trauma and the Cinematic Network Society." Critical Studies in Media Communication. Volume 27 (3). pp. 209-234.  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a924736997~frm=titlelink

Narine, Neil. (2010). "Film Sound and American Cultural Memory: Resounding Trauma in Sophie’s Choice." Memory Studies. Volume 3 (1). http://mss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/1/33?etoc

Narine, Neil. and Grimes, Sara M. (2009). "The Turbulent Rise of the ‘Child Gamer’: Public Fears and Corporate Promises in Cinematic and Promotional Depictions of Children’s Digital Play."  Communication, Culture & Critique. Volume 2 (3), 319-338. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cccr/2009/00000002/00000003/art00003

Narine, Neil.  (2008).  "Global Trauma at Home: Technology, Modernity, Deliverance."
Journal of American Studies.  Volume 42.  Issue 3. pp. 449-470   http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AMS

Narine, Neil. (2006). “Policing Traumatised Boundaries of Self and Nation: Undocumented Labor in Blade Runner." Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture.  Volume 5. Issue 2. http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal.htm

Book Chapters

(2008) “Chapter 6: Policing Traumatized Boundaries of Self and Nation: Undocumented Labor in Blade Runner." in Melissa Croteau (Ed.) Reel Histories: Studies in American Film. Los Angeles, California: Press Americana. http://www.amazon.com/Reel-Histories-Studies-American-Film/dp/097890415X

Presentations and Lectures  

"Global Trauma at Home" paper presented in the "American Studies" panel of the Hawai’i International Conference on Arts and Humanities (HICAH). Hilton Hawai’ian Village, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Jan. 9-12, 2009. http://www.hichumanities.org/index.htm

“‘Global Trauma Films’ and the Cinematic Network Society.” Paper presented in the “Globalization and War Correspondents” Panel at the Media, War, and Conflict Resolution Conference. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Sept. 17-19, 2008.  http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/page52424.html

“‘Global Trauma Films,’ Vicarious Witnessing, and Global Citizenship.” Paper presented in the “Cinema” Panel at the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference, a meeting at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2008 Congress: “Thinking beyond Borders. Global Ideas, Global Values.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. June 2-5, 2008. http://www.acc-cca.ca/reg/viewabstract.php?id=614&cf=5

"Technologies of Memory: Interactive Media and Holocaust Museums." paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) Annual Conference 8: Let’s Play. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 18-20, 2007 http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=1144&cf=6

"Citizenship at the Cinema?" paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Annual Conference: Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication, and the Global City. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oct. 25-28, 2007. http://www.sfu.ca/conferences/udc2007/home.html

"Playtime is over! Children’s digital gaming as productive leisure or wasted time" paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, April 20-22, 2006. Co-presented with S. M. Grimes. http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/viewabstract.php?id=390&cf=3

"Playtime is over! Children’s digital gaming as productive leisure or wasted time" paper presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Apr.13-16, 2006.  Co-presented with S. M. Grimes. http://www.popularculture.org/2006%20PAGES/Program%20Full.htm

"Obsessive Reading: A Surfeit of Memory in Sophie’s Choice" paper presented at READ: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Nov. 11-13, 2004.  

"Identification in Marcel Ophuls’s The Sorrow and the Pity." paper presented in the "History and Trauma" panel at the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) Annual Graduate Colloquium, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 25-27, 2004. http://www.film.ubc.ca/fsac/index.htm