Luke van Ryn

"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.

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..

Confronting food waste in MasterChef Australia

Luke van Ryn

Book Chapter  |  2018

Perhaps the most readily made critique of MasterChef Australia is of its excessive production aesthetic: a constantly changing cor..

Avatar economies: affective investment from game to platform

L van Ryn, T Apperley, J Clemens

Journal article  |  2018  |  New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Video game avatars have been understood as a key site of players’ “affective investment” in play and games. In this article, we ex..

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

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Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

This article explores how innovations in the funeral industry borrow from the technological affordances, commercial logics, cultur..

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 ..

An Internet of Social Things

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

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

The Internet of Things is a vision for a world of interconnected smart devices. We present an alternative vision based on a review..

Ethical Commodities as Exodus and Refusal

R Fordyce, L VAN RYN

Journal article  |  2014  |  Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization

Gestural Economy and Cooking Mama: Playing With the Politics of Natural User Interfaces

L VAN RYN

Journal article  |  2013  |  Scan

Editorial

L Van Ryn, S Guo

Journal article  |  2012  |  Platform