Michael Arnold

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 ..

Cybernetic Funeral Systems

M Arnold, H Gould, T Kohn, B Nansen, F Allison

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Being Human in a Global Village, 21CW 2021

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

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..

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..

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 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..

‘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..

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..

Digital Domesticity Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Book  |  2020

While the home provides a necessary anchor point for our empirical and theoretical work, we are well aware that the home is not se..

Ludic Ethics: The Ethical Negotiations of Players in Online Multiplayer Games

LA Sparrow, M Gibbs, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2020  |  Games and Culture: a journal of interactive media

This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of players of online multiplayer games. ..