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Aphra Kerr | Lead Researcher
Maynooth University
Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University in Ireland and she holds a PhD in Communication Studies (DCU, 2000). She is PI at the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, a multi-institutional national research centre in Ireland (2021-2027). Her books include Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Age, Routledge, 2017, and she was associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. In 2020 she was accepted into the Academy of Europe and in 2016 she received a Distinguished Scholar award from the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).
Selected publications
Kerr, Aphra (in press) ‘The Media in Ireland: Concentration, Exclusion and Datafication’ in Contemporary Ireland and Northern Ireland, Boucher, Gerard and Iarfhlaith Watson (Eds), Dublin: UCD Press.
Kerr, Aphra (2021) ‘The Circulation Game: shifting production logics and circulation moments in the digital games industry.’ In Digital Media Distribution. Portals, Platforms and Pipelines. Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens (Eds.), New York: New York University Press. Chapter 5, pgs 107-125. ISBN 978-1-4798-0678-2 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479806812
Kerr, Aphra (2021) ‘Decoding and Recoding Game jams and Independent Game Making Spaces for Inclusion’. In Independent Videogames: Cultures, Networks, Techniques and Politics. Ruffino, P. (Ed.) London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367336202. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367336219 https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/14672/
Hutchinson, J. and Aphra Kerr (Guest Editors, 2021) Life (online): An Introduction to the #AoIR20 Special Issue, 7 papers from the Association for Internet Research Conference 2020, Information, Communication and Society. Vol (24) Issue 5. Pages 773-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1909631
Pierson, J., Robinson, C., Boddington, P., Chazerand, P., Kerr, A., Milan, S., Verbeek, F., Kutterer, C.,, Nerantzi, E., Aconstantinesei, I., C., (2020) ‘AI in Media and Technology Sector: Opportunities, Risks, Requirements and Recommendations’ Atomium European Institute for Science, Media and Democracy, Belgium: Brussels. See here.
Kerr, Aphra, Barry, M., and Kelleher, J. (2020) Expectations of Artificial Intelligence and the Performativity of Ethics: Implications for Communication Governance. Big Data and Society. Vol 7 (Issue 1). DOI: 1177/2053951720915939 [open access, peer review]
Kerr, Aphra, Musiani, F. and Pohle, J. (2019) Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future. Communication Policy & Technology IAMCR special issue. Internet Policy Review, 8(1). DOI: 10.14763/2019.1.1395 [open access, peer review]
Kerr, Aphra (2019) ‘Game Production Logics at Work: Convergence and Divergence.’ In Deuze, Mark and Prenger, Mirjam (Eds.) Making Media. Production, Practices, and Professions, Amsterdam University Press. Chapter 31. ISBN 9789462988118
Kerr, Aphra (2017) Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Digital Games Industry. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-85887-8. doi: 10.4324/9780203704028
Mansell, R., Ang, PH., (General Eds), Ballon, P., Braman, S., Grimshaw, D. J., Ivory, J. D., Kerr, A., Kleine, D., Steinfield, C., van der Graaf, S. (Associate Eds) (2015) International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, 3 Volume Set, Wiley Blackwell-ICA Encyclopedias of Communication. Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 3 vols. ISBN: 978-1-118-29074-3
Roddy Flynn | Lead Researcher
Dublin City University
Born Dublin, Studied History and Politics at UCD, took a Masters in Film and Television Studies at DCU. Completed Phd. on Universal Telephone Service in Ireland at DCU in 1997.
Selected publications
Dr. Roderick Flynn. Tony Tracy and Pat Brereton (2018) A Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow (Rowman and Littlefield).
Roderick Flynn (2015) ‘Public Service Broadcasting without Public Service Broadcasters’. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL TELEVISION, 6 .
Dr. Roderick Flynn, Iain MacMenamin, Eoin O’Malley and Kevin Rafter (2014) ‘). The impact of the economic crisis on media framing: Evidence from three elections in Ireland’. EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (PRINT), 6 :433-488.
Roderick Flynn (2007) ‘Raiders of the Lost Archives � The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Film Industry 1942’. Irish Communications Review, Vol :30-41.
Paschal Preston | Lead Researcher
Dublin City University
Paschal Preston holds a research professorship in the School of Communications in Dublin City University.
Paschal Preston is the founding director of the Communication, Technology and Culture (COMTEC ) research unit. Founded in 1991, COMTEC was one of the first social science research centres in the Irish university sector. COMTEC now has a distinguished 23-year record of successful collaborative and multi-country research projects.
This includes participation in more than 15 multi-country, multi-partner projects, in collaboration with European and worldwide partners.
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