Bjørn Nansen

"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2019

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

Postdigitality in Children’s Crossmedia Play: A Case Study of Nintendo’s Amiibo Figurines

Bjorn Nansen, Thomas APPERLEY

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate the opportunities and risks of IoToys before their w..

Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured

Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Luke Van Ryn

Book  |  2019

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..

Discourses, dispositifs, and dispositions in young children's mobile media use

Bjorn Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2018

Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this book sho..

Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-Engagement with Digital Games

Bjorn Nansen, Jane Mavoa, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2018

Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this book sho..

Mimetic Production in YouTube Toy Unboxing Videos

Benjamin Nicoll, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2018  |  Social Media + Society

This article contributes to research on children’s participation on social media by analyzing “toy unboxing” videos. Toy unboxing ..

Techniques of the Tactile Body: A Cultural Phenomenology of Infants and Mobile Touchscreens

B Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Journal article  |  2018  |  Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped..

The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online

T KOHN, J Meese, M Arnold, M Gibbs, B Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2018

Algorithmic memorial videos: Contextualising automated curation

A Lambert, B Nansen, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2018  |  Memory Studies

Web platforms such as Facebook and Google have recently developed features which algorithmically curate digital artefacts composed..

Death and Digital Media

M Arnold, M Gibbs, T Kohn, J Meese, B Nansen

Book  |  2018

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital m..

Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies (2nd edition)

B Nansen, E van der Nagel, T Kohn, M Arnold, M Gibbs

Report  |  2017

Those LED-Lit Water-Kooled Multi-Screen Streamline Battlestations

M Gibbs, M Carter, B Nansen

Conference Proceedings  |  2017

Battlestations are customized desktop computers, typically devoted to gaming. In this paper we present analysis of the all-time to..

Infancy Online: An Introduction

Tama Leaver, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2017  |  SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY

Social Media in the Funeral Industry: On the Digitization of Grief

B NANSEN, undefined Kohn, undefined Arnold, undefined van Ryn, undefined Gibbs

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Toy Unboxing Videos and the Mimetic Production of Play

B Nansen, Benjamin Nicoll

Conference Proceedings  |  2017

The paper analyses the role of young children in YouTube toy unboxing videos, where children and adults unbox various commercial t..

Researching Death Online

L van Ryn, T KOHN, B Nansen, M Arnold, M Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2017

Death now knocks in a digital age. When the time is nigh, whether from natural causes at a ripe age, or from accidents or illness ..

Mobilising Children: The role of mobile communications in child mobility

B NANSEN, P Carroll, L Gibbs, Colin MacDougall, Frank Vetere

Book Chapter  |  2017

This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children s health and wellbeing in urban environments..

Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

Thomas Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2017

Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-engagement with Digital Games

J Mavoa, B nansen, M carter, M gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2017

Overcoming the tyranny of distance? High speed broadband and the significance of place

Jenny Kennedy, Rowan Wilken, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Mitchell Harrop

Book Chapter  |  2016

Infants, Interfaces, and Intermediation: Digital Parenting and the Production of "iPad Baby" Videos on YouTube

Bjorn Nansen, Darshana Jayemanne

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

We investigate the ways young children’s use of mobile touchscreen interfaces is both understood and shaped by parents through the..

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

B NANSEN, undefined Jayemanne, undefined Apperley

Journal article  |  2016  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association

This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in emergent digital materialities of game design. It extends recent work examining di..

Young Children’s Touchscreen Media Habitus

B NANSEN

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

The increasing prevalence of touchscreen and mobile devices in homes has brought computing and the internet into the lives of todd..

Social practices of 3D printing: Decentralising control and reconfiguring regulation

L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, B Nansen, T Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy

This paper considers the social practices of 3D printing by comparing consumer perspectives and practices with legal scholarship o..

Baby gamers? Theorizing the ‘Haptic Habitus’ of Very Young Children, Parents and Touchscreen Technologies

B NANSEN, undefined jayemanne

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Parental Mediation, YouTube's Networked Public, and the "Baby-iPad Encounter": Mobilizing Digital Dexterity

Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2016  |  Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

An Ontography of Broadband on a Domestic Scale

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, J Kennedy, M Gibbs, M Harrop, R Wilken

Journal article  |  2016  |  Transformations Journal

3D Printing Rights & Responsibilities: consumer perceptions & realities

L HEEMSBERGEN, R Fordyce, M Arnold, T Apperley, T Birtchnell, B Nansen

Report  |  2016

Things, tags, topics: Thingiverse's object-centred network

Robbie Fordyce, Luke Heemsbergen, Thomas Apperley, Michael Arnold, Thomas Birtchnell, Michael Luo, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2016  |  Communication Research and Practice

Methodological and ethical concerns associated with digital ethnography in domestic environments: participation burden and burdensome technologies

B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Arnold, M Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2016

This chapter reflects on methodological and ethical issues arising in a digital ethnography project conducted in domestic environm..

Proxy Users, Use By Proxy: Mapping Forms of Intermediary Interaction

B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Arnold, M Carter, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction on - OzCHI '15

Death & the Internet

M Arnold, B Nansen, M Gibbs, T Kohn

Presentation  |  2015

United Nations Internet Governance Forum Panel

Digital housekeepers and domestic expertise in the networked home

J Kennedy, B Nansen, M Arnold, R Wilken, M Gibbs

Journal article  |  2015  |  Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

This article examines the distribution of expertise in the performance of ‘digital housekeeping’ required to maintain a networked ..

Accidental, Assisted, Automated: An Emerging Repertoire of Infant Mobile MediaTechniques

B NANSEN

Journal article  |  2015  |  M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture

Mobile Media, Ethnographic Software & Televisual Tasks: Ethical Reflections on Designing Research for Household Participation

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Gibbs

Presentation  |  2015

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)

Technology and the funeral Industry: Current engagements and possible futures

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, M Gibbs, T Kohn, J Meese

Presentation  |  2015

Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath.

The Politics of Connectivity: Place, Relationality, and High-speed Broadband

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Gibbs

Presentation  |  2015

GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds

Digital Commemoration

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, T Kohn, J Meese, M Gibbs

Presentation  |  2015

Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. Research Center for Information Law, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, in coope..

Entering the graveyard shift: Disassembling the australian TiVo

J Meese, R Wilken, B Nansen, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2015  |  Television & New Media

This article analyzes the operation and subsequent failure of TiVo in Australia. Drawing on actor-network theory, we unpack the Ti..

Introduction: What 'is' Australian Game Studies?

M GIBBS, M Carter, T Apperley, B Nansen, L Crawford

Journal article  |  2015  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association

Post-Digital Play and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

B NANSEN, D Jayemanne, undefined Apperley

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  DiGRA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 DiGRA International Conference: Diversity of Play

Framing the NBN: An Analysis of Newspaper Representations

R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Arnold, M GIBBS, B Nansen

Journal article  |  2015  |  Communication, Politics & Culture Journal

The National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s largest public infrastructure project, was initiated to deliver universal access..

Digital ethnographic techniques in domestic spaces: Notes on methods and ethics

B Nansen, J Kennedy, M ARNOLD, M Gibbs, R Wilken

Journal article  |  2015  |  Visual Methodologies

This paper reflects on the opportunities provided by the use of novel digital ethnographic methods for gaining insights into the c..

Remembering Zyzz - Distributed Memories on Distributed Networks

B Nansen, M ARNOLD, M Gibbs, T Kohn, J Meese

Book Chapter  |  2015

Children's interdependent mobility: compositions, collaborations and compromises

B Nansen, L Gibbs, C MacDougall, F Vetere, NJ Ross, J McKendrick

Journal article  |  2015  |  Children's Geographies

Selfies at Funerals: Mourning and Presencing on Social Media Platforms

J Meese, M GIBBS, M Carter, M Arnold, B Nansen, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2015  |  International Journal of Communication

#Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular

Martin Gibbs, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Marcus Carter

Journal article  |  2015  |  Information, Communication & Society

This paper presents findings from a study of Instagram use and funerary practices that analysed photographs shared on public profi..

Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media

J Meese, B Nansen, T Kohn, M Arnold, M Gibbs

Journal article  |  2015  |  Mortality

This article identifies and outlines some of the more prominent ways that digital media can extend one’s personhood following deat..

Tweets from the afterlife: social networking with the dead

B Nansen, J Meese, MR GIBBS, M Arnold, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Conversation

NBN benefits regional centres, but rural Australia is still left wanting

R Wilken, B Nansen, J Kennedy, MR GIBBS, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Conversation

Death and the selfie: welcome to a grave new world

B Nansen, J Meese, MR GIBBS, M Arnold, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Conversation

From here to Eterni.me – the quest for digital immortality

J Meese, B Nansen, MR GIBBS, M Arnold, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Conversation

Reciprocal Habituation: A Study of Older People and the Kinect

Bjorn Nansen, Frank Vetere, Toni Robertson, John Downs, Margot Brereton, Jeannette Durick

Journal article  |  2014  |  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

ASYNCHRONOUS SPEEDS: DISENTANGLING THE DISCOURSE OF 'HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND' IN RELATION TO AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK

Marcos P Dias, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Journal article  |  2014  |  Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy

Homemade cookbooks: a recipe for sharing

HJ Davis, B Nansen, F Vetere, T Robertson, M Brereton, J Durick, K Vaisutis

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

An Internet of Social Things

B NANSEN, L van Ryn, F Vetere, T Robertson, M Brereton, P Douish

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures the Future of Design - OzCHI '14

Selfies at Funerals: Remediating rituals of mourning

M Gibbs, M CARTER, B Nansen, T Kohn

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies

CJ Bellamy, MV Arnold, MR Gibbs, B Nansen, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2014  |  IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Framing the NBN: Public perceptions and media representations

MV Arnold, CJ Bellamy, BLS Coker, MR Gibbs, PS Hill, B Nansen, R Wilken

Report  |  2014

Kitchen Kinesics: Situating Gestural Interaction within the Social Contexts of Family Cooking

B NANSEN, H Davis, F Vetere, M Skov, J Paay, J Kjeldsov

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures the Future of Design - OzCHI '14

Invisible Connections: Investigating Older People's Emotions and Social Relations around Objects

K Vaisutis, M Brereton, T Robertson, F Vetere, J Durick, B Nansen, L Buys

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paradigms of games research in HCI: a review of 10 years of research at CHI

M Carter, J Downs, B Nansen, M Harrop, MR GIBBS

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play - CHI PLAY '14

In this paper we argue that games and play research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction can usefully be understood as exist..

The Restless Dead in the Digital Cemetery

B Nansen, M Arnold, MR GIBBS, T Kohn

Book Chapter  |  2014

#funeral

M CARTER, M Gibbs, B Nansen, M Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

In this paper we highlight preliminary findings from a study at the intersection of Instagram use and funerary practices. This stu..

Screen ecologies, multi-gaming and designing for different registers of engagement

M Carter, B Nansen, MR GIBBS

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play - CHI PLAY '14

In this paper, we propose the notion of screen ecologies and argue for its importance in the study of contemporary digital game pl..

DIGITAL LITERACIES AND THE NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK: COMPETENCY, LEGIBILITY, CONTEXT

Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2013  |  Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy

Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing digital legacies

CJ Bellamy, MV Arnold, MR Gibbs, B Nansen, T Kohn

Report  |  2013

Australia, what do you think of the NBN?

CJ Bellamy, B Nansen, MR Gibbs, MV Arnold

Media  |  2013

Dispelling ageing myths in technology design

J Durick, T Robertson, M Brereton, F Vetere, B Nansen

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  OzCHI '13 Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration

Users and non-users of next generation broadband

B Nansen, MV Arnold, R Wilken, MR Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  Selected Papers of Internet Research

Life beyond the timeline: creating and curating a digital legacy

CJ Bellamy, MV Arnold, MR Gibbs, B Nansen, T Kohn

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community Informatics

Broadbanding Brunswick. High-speed broadband and Household Media Ecologies: A Report on Household Take-up and Adoption of the National Broadband Network in the First Release Site of Brunswick, Victoria.

B Nansen, MV Arnold, undefined Wilken, MR Gibbs

Report  |  2013

Patchwork network: Spectrum politics, the digital home and installation of the Australian national broadband network

M Arnold, T Apperley, B Nansen, M Gibbs, R Wilken

Book Chapter  |  2013

Digital registers and estate planning

MR Gibbs, CJ Bellamy, MV Arnold, B Nansen, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2013  |  Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin

'MYBus': Young People's Mobile Health, Wellbeing and Digital Inclusion

B Nansen, K Chakraborty, LF Gibbs, C Macdougall, F Vetere

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Community Informatics

Serenity Now bombs a World of Warcraft funeral: Negotiating the Morality, Reality and Taste of Online Gaming Practices

MR Gibbs, MD Carter, MV Arnold, B Nansen

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  Selected Papers of Internet Research

Habituated Interaction and Social Objects

B Nansen, F Vetere, T Robertson, M Brereton, J Durick

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Habits in Human-Computer Interaction

Patchwork network: Spectrum politics, the digital home and installation of the Australian national broadband network

M Arnold, T Apperley, B Nansen, M Gibbs, R Wilken

Book Chapter  |  2013

Emerging Technologies and the Contextual and Contingent Experiences of Ageing Well

Toni Robertson, Jeannette Durick, Margot Brereton, Kate Vaisutis, Frank Vetere, Bjorn Nansen, Steve Howard

Book Chapter  |  2013  |  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

National, local and household media ecologies: The case of Australia’s National Broadband Network

R Wilken, B Nansen, MV Arnold, J Kennedy, MR Gibbs

Journal article  |  2013  |  Communication, Politics & Culture

Ethical negotiations: Committees, methods and research with children

K Chakraborty, B Nansen, L Gibbs, C MacDougall

Journal article  |  2012  |  International Journal of Children's Rights

This paper reflects on the ethical procedures encountered, and methodological strategies adopted, in order to develop and conduct ..

Knowing our users: Scoping interviews in design research with ageing participants

T Robertson, J Durick, M Brereton, F Vetere, S Howard, B Nansen

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

'You do the math': Mathletics and the play of online learning

Bjorn Nansen, Kabita Chakraborty, Lisa Gibbs, Frank Vetere, Colin MacDougall

Journal article  |  2012  |  New Media & Society

Children and Digital Wellbeing in Australia: Online regulation, conduct and competence

Bjorn Nansen, Kabita Chakraborty, Lisa Gibbs, Colin MacDougall, Frank Vetere

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Children and Media

Design Considerations for After Death: Comparing the Affordances of Three Online Platforms

J MORI, MR Gibbs, MV Arnold, B Nansen, T Kohn

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

Facebook and the Other: Administering to and Caring for the Dead Online

T Kohn, B Nansen, MV Arnold, MR Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2012

Stepping Out: Children Negotiating Independent Travel

LF Gibbs, C Macdougall, B Nansen, F Vetere, undefined Ross, undefined Danic, undefined McKendrick, AD Lamontagne

Report  |  2012

Dwelling with media stuff: latencies and logics of materiality in four Australian homes

Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Hilary Davis

Journal article  |  2011  |  Environment and Planning D - Society & Space

Broadband in the home pilot study: suburban Hobart

R Wilken, MV Arnold, B Nansen

Journal article  |  2011  |  Telecommunications Journal of Australia

The cultural economy of TiVo in Australia

R Wilken, B Nansen, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2011  |  Telecommunications Journal of Australia

Gardening Online: A Tale of Suburban Informatics

Bjorn Nansen, Jon M Pearce, Wally Smith

Book Chapter  |  2011

Family Worlds: Technological Engagement for Families Negotiating Urban Traffic

Hilary Davis, Peter Francis, Bjorn Nansen, Frank Vetere

Book Chapter  |  2011

Broadband in the Burbs: NBN Infrastructure, Spectrum Politics and the Digital Home

TH Apperley, B Nansen, MV Arnold, undefined Wilken

Journal article  |  2011  |  M/C Journal - A Journal of Media and Culture

Time, space and technology in the working-home: an unsettled nexus

Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Hilary Davis

Journal article  |  2010  |  New Technology, Work & Employment

Time, Technology, and the Rhythms of Daily Life

Hilary Davis, Michael Arnold, Martin R Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society

Domestic orchestration Rhythms in the mediated home

Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin R Gibbs, Hilary Davis

Journal article  |  2009  |  Time & Society

Smart Garden Watering: Experiences of Using a Garden Watering Simulation

B NANSEN, J Pearce, W Smith, J Murphy

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

I Go Chop Your Dollar: The Art and Antagonisms of Nigerian 419 Emails

B NANSEN

Journal article  |  2009  |  Chicago Art Journal

Exertion Gaming as Kinaesthetic Technicity

B NANSEN

Journal article  |  2009  |  Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media

Step-counting: The anatomo- and chrono-politics of pedometrics

Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2008  |  Continuum

From Exotic to Mundane: Longitudinal Reflections on Parenting and Technology in the Connected Family Home

H DAVIS, M GIBBS, M ARNOLD, B NANSEN

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies

I Go Chop Your Dollar: The Nigerian 419 Scam and Chronoscopic Time

B NANSEN

Journal article  |  2008  |  Antithesis

Time, Inertia and the Medical Cyborg: Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

B NANSEN

Book Chapter  |  2007

Machine Breaths: Assembling the Mechanical Ventilator Body

B NANSEN

Journal article  |  2007  |  Transformations

Sleep mode: Mobile apps and the optimisation of sleep-wake rhythms

Christopher O'Neill, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  First Monday

This article contributes to the critical analysis of sleep and its technological mediation by analysing how sleep is modulated thr..

‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding false death announcements on social media and the performance of platform cultural capital

Bjorn Nansen, Dominic O'Donnell, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  First Monday

In this paper, we analyse false death announcements of public figures on social media and public responses to them. The analysis d..