Michael Arnold

Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation

Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Fraser Allison

Journal article  |  2023  |  MORTALITY

Adolescent ambivalence about diabetes technology-The Janus faces of automated care

Fergus J Cameron, Michael Arnold, John W Gregory

Journal article  |  2022  |  PEDIATRIC DIABETES

The Janus face metaphor approach highlights that a technology may simultaneously have two opposite faces or properties with unfore..

‘Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century

H Gould, M Arnold, T Dupleix, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2021  |  Mortality

Human bodies are typically buried underground, horizontally ‘in repose’. To the extent that this orientation has become the standa..

Automating Digital Afterlives

Robbie Fordyce, Bjørn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2021

The question of how the dead “live on” by maintaining a presence and connecting to the living within social networks has garnered ..

Media, mortality and necro-technologies: Eulogies for dead media

Bjorn Nansen, Hannah Gould, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

Working at the intersection of death studies and media studies, this article examines what we can learn from the death of media te..

Robot death care: A study of funerary practice

Hannah Gould, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by roboti..

The internet as non-biomedical milieu: Production of alternative health techno-social spaces and the persistence of marginalised medical practices

Nguyen Dang, Michael Arnold, Richard Chenhall

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH & PLACE

This paper describes how spatial understandings of the internet (i.e. the internet is a 'space') enable the persistence of margina..

The Ethics of Multiplayer Game Design and Community Management

Lucy A. Sparrow, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Game industry professionals are frequently implementing new methods of addressing ethical issues related to in-game toxicity and d..

Cybernetic Funeral Systems

Michael Arnold, Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Fraser Allison

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  2021 IEEE CONFERENCE ON NORBERT WIENER IN THE 21ST CENTURY (21CW): BEING HUMAN IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE

Using Postphenomenology (one of many methods informed by Wiener's cybernetics) as an analytical approach, this paper examines thre..

From ‘Silly’ to ‘Scumbag’: Reddit Discussion of a Case of Groping in a Virtual Reality Game

Lucy Sparrow, Madeleine Antonellos, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere

This paper examines key discussion points among VR-interested Reddit users regarding a controversial case of VR groping reported i..