Digital Cultures
Postgraduate Research 2012 Overview
Digital Cultures is a transdisciplinary
program investigating the cultural
changes emerging with digital and
convergent technologies. We welcome
proposals from qualified applicants for
topics related to new media studies, new
media arts criticism, internet studies,
computer games studies, mobile studies,
cyberculture studies, critical theory and
technology studies.
Use of the Internet, mobile devices and
other new media represent highly visible
changes to lived experience and potential
- they also present many opportunities
for innovative and significant cultural
research. Adopting these systems and
devices affects our sense of identity,
orientation in space and experience
of time: the very texture of our
lifeworld. It changes the conditions for
communication, creativity and economy,
and raises many ethical, political and
aesthetic questions.
Digital media have stimulated an equally
extraordinary growth in academic
research across many disciplines.
Emerging research communities are
studying games, the Internet, mobile
phones, social media, new media arts
and online education. The Digital Cultures
program suits projects at the intersections
of these areas of digital media practice,
taking critical and comparative
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Dr Kathy Cleland
Dr Kathy Cleland’s research interests include new media art, digital portraiture, avatars, virtual characters and representations of the self in virtual environments. She is currently researching audience interaction with robotic and virtual characters, the theatrical presentation of robots, art and the aesthetics of surveillance, and new modes of audience interaction and participation.
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