seth giddings

publications

 

http://www.newmediaintro.com

books

Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant & Kieran Kelly, New Media: a critical introduction (2nd edition), London: Routledge, 2008

Seth Giddings & Martin Lister (eds) The New Media & Technocultures Reader, London: Routledge (forthcoming: 2010)

chapters in books

with Helen W. Kennedy, 'Little Jesuses and Fuck-off Robots: on aesthetics, cybernetics, and not being very good at Lego Star Wars', in Melanie Swalwell & Jason Wilson (eds) The Pleasures of Computer Games: essays on cultural history, theory and aesthetics, McFarland & Co. 2008

‘I’m the one who makes the Lego Racers go’: studying virtual and actual play, in Shanly Dixon & Sandra Weber (eds) Growing Up Online: young people and digital technologies, Palgrave / Macmillan 2007

‘Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form’, in Suzanne de Castell & Jen Jenson (eds) Worlds in Play: international perspectives on digital games research, Peter Lang 2007

with Helen W. Kennedy,‘Digital games as new media’, in Jason Rutter & Jo Bryce (eds) Understanding Digital Games, Sage 2006

journal articles

with Helen W. Kennedy, 'Incremental speed increases excitement: bodies, space, movement and televisual change', special issue of Television and New Media on the Nintendo Wii, edited by James Tobias (forthcoming)

'Events and collusions: a glossary for the microethnography of videogame play', Games and Culture 4(2), April 2009

Dionysiac machines: videogames and the triumph of the simulacra, Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies, 13(3), November 2007

A ‘pataphysics engine: technology, play, and realities, Games and Culture, 2(4), October 2007

The circle of life: nature and representation in Disney’s The Lion King, Third Text, no.34, Winter 1999/2000

reviews

Terry Flew New Media: an introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005, in Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies, 13(1) 2007

Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (DVD), in Journal of Science Fiction Film & Television, 1(1) 2008