An engaging look at how mobile games are increasingly part of our day-to-day lives and the ways that we interact across real as well as digital landscapes.We often play games on our mobile devices when we have some time to kill--waiting in line, pausing between tasks, stuck on a bus. We play in solitude or in company, alone in a bedroom or with others in the family room. In Ambient Play, Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson examine how mobile gameplay fits into our...

Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of contemporary life.Games today interweave with the social, economic, material, and political complexities of living in a digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and where do we play?This book explores the ways in which games and game cultures can be understood. It investigates the sites, genres, platforms, interfaces and contexts for games and gameplay, offering a critical over...

What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation abou...

Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily experience of the world.In Bodies and Mobile Media, Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken explore mobile media as a lens through which to understand how embodiment both shapes, and is shaped by, media experience. It off...

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the intersection...

Data excess — particularly in digital media research — is inevitable. It emerges as the ‘debris’ and ‘leftovers’ from planning, fieldwork and writing; the words cut from drafts and copied to untouched and forgotten files; digital metadata automatically recorded to databases; the data archived but never analysed or published. What do or can we do with this excess from our research?Thinking beyond academic constraints and the constant push towards the next new fundable thing, Dat...

"Om du vill läsa en riktigt stor roman i vår, på alla sätt faktiskt, skulle jag säga Ingrid Hedströms Vännen från Berlin. ... Den är superspännande!" Lotta Olsson, P12020 får författaren Kerstin Lidelius ett brev från en man hon en gång var passionerat kär i, skickat från hans dödsbädd. Brevet tvingar Kerstin att återuppleva sina stormiga ungdomsår av studentprotester och politisk aktivism i kalla krigets Europa. Men det ger också ledtrådar om sveket som fick Kerstin att hamna i St...

Den unga, fromma Pamela Andrews är tjänsteflicka hos mr. B, en rik landägare i 1700-talets England. Efter mr. B’s mor död försöker han förföra Pamela, som trots försiktig attraktion avvisar honom. Han ger sig inte utan ökar sina påtryckningar och Pamela kämpar för att behålla sin värdighet och moraliska kompass.Pamela var en stor sensation när den först publicerades. Med sitt fokus på klassklyftorna och kvinnors begränsade rättigheter satte den fingret på samtidens utmaning...

The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone’s particular characteristics, uses and "affects," but also how the "iPhone moment" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study cons...

This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held in Nyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on statistical and machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in “big data” situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. The contributors, who are among the most prominent researchers on the theory of statistics for high dimensional inference, prese...