A selection of publications from Center researchers. Visit their individual websites for full listings.
Forthcoming
Winthereik, Brit Ross (in press). The Project Multiple: Enacting Systems Development. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.
2012
Taylor, T.L. (2012) Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Play. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
2011
Shklovski, I. & Kotamraju, N. (2011) “Online Contribution Practices in Countries that Engage in Internet Blocking and Censorship” In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2011), New York: ACM Press.
Taylor, T.L. (2011). Internet & Games in M. Consalvo, C. Ess, R. Burnett (eds.) The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies, Blackwell Publishing.
Taylor, T.L. (2011). “Gaming Lifeworlds: Social Play in Persistent Environments” in S. Giddings and M. Lister (eds.) The New Media and Technocultures Reader, New York: Routledge [edited selections from Play Between Worlds, MIT Press, 2006].
Valtysson, B. (2011). Íslensk menningarpólitík (Icelandic cultural policy). pdf
2010
Shklovski, I. & Struthers, D. (2010) Of States and Borders on the Internet: The Role of Domain Name Extensions in Expressions of Nationalism Online in Kazakhstan. Policy & Internet v2(4), article 5. Can be retrieved at The bepress.
Shklovski, I., Vertesi, J., Lindtner, S. & Dourish, P. (2010) Transnational times: locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use. In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2010 Extended Abstracts. Copenhagen, Denmark: ACM.
Shklovski, I., Burke, M., Kraut, R. & Kiesler, S. (2010) Technology adoption and use in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, American Behavioral Scientist, V53(8) p. 1228-1246.
Taylor, T.L. (2010) This is How We Play It: What a Mega-LAN Can Teach Us About Games, co-authored with Emma Witkowski, Foundations of Digital Games, Monterey, CA, June 2010.
Valtysson, B. (2010). Access Culture: Web 2.0 and Cultural Participation. International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol 16, No 2. Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group: p. 200-214.
Valtysson, B. (2010). Playing with Power: The Cultural Impact of Prosumers. In: JP Singh, (ed.) International Cultural Polices and Power. Palgrave McMillan, New York: pp. 63-74.
Watts, L. and Lyons, G. (2010) Travel Remedy Kit: Interventions into Train Lines and Passenger Times, in Buscher, M. Urry, J. and Witchger, K. (eds.) Mobile Methods, London, Routledge.
Winthereik, Brit Ross and Henriette Langstrup (2010). Who cares for information sharing? On-line records, maternity care and the quest for active patients. In: Annemarie Mol, Ingunn Moser and Jeanette Pols (eds.) Care Practices: Tinkering in clinics, homes and farms. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 195-213.
2009
Shklovski, I., Vertesi, J., Troshynski, E. & Dourish, P. (2009) The commodification of location: Dynamics of power in location-based systems. In proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), Orlando, Florida: ACM Press.
Taylor, T.L. (2009) The Assemblage of Play, Games and Culture, vol. 4, no. 4, 331-339, 2009. (Correction to text: This piece was funded by the MacArthur Foundation.)
2008
Watts, L. (2008) The Future is Boring: Stories from the landscapes of the mobile telecoms industry, in 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (special issue on Future Matters: Futures Known, Created, Minded), 3(2), pp. 187-198.
Watts, L. (2008) The Art and Craft of Train Travel, in Journal of Social and Cultural Geography (special issue on Spatial Technologies/Technological Spaces), 9(6), pp. 711 — 726.
Watts, L. and Urry, J. (2008) Moving Methods, Travelling Times, in Society and Space (Environment and Planning D), 26 (5), 860-874.
2007
Winthereik, Brit Ross, Irma van der Ploeg & Marc Berg. (2007). The Electronic Patient Record as a Meaningful Audit Tool: Accountability and Autonomy in GP Work. Science, Technology and Human Values, 32 (1), 6-25.
2005
Watts, L. (2005) Designing the Future: Fables from the mobile telecoms industry, in Glotz, P., Bertschi, S. and Locke, C. (eds) Thumb Culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society, Piscataway NJ, Transcript Verlag/Transaction.