Martin Gibbs

Synchronizing multi-perspectival data of children's digital play at home

Jane Mavoa, Bjorn Nansen, Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2022  |  DIGITAL CREATIVITY

Studying digitally mediated play presents challenges in terms of how to view and record both the on-screen action and player’s bod..

Let's play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads

Brian McKitrick, Martin Gibbs, Melissa J Rogerson, Bjorn Nansen, Charlotte Pierce

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNET HISTORIES

The Something Awful Let’s Play subforum is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the Let’s Play (LP) media phenomenon. LPs typi..

"What are you Bringing to the Table?": The Something Awful Let's Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture

Brian McKitrick, Melissa Rogerson, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2022  |  GAMES AND CULTURE

Within the last decade, Let’s Plays, recordings of gameplay with commentary by the person playing, have grown in popularity and at..

‘Don’t mess with my algorithm’: Exploring the relationship between listeners and automated curation and recommendation on music streaming services

Sophie Freeman, Martin Gibbs, Bjørn Nansen

Journal article  |  2022  |  First Monday

Given access to huge online collections of music on streaming platforms such as Spotify or Apple Music, users have become increasi..

More Than a Gimmick - Digital Tools for Boardgame Play

MJ Rogerson, LA Sparrow, MR Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Despite increasing interest in the use of digital tools in boardgames for both commercial and research purposes, little research h..

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 ..

Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar

David Jian-Jia Cumming, Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY

Spectatorship is a core element of esports. Short for “electronic sports,” esports encompasses organized, professional competitive..

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 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..