Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Some players argue that they experience nostalgia while digitally immersed in the streets of 1940s Los Angeles, an experience that entails driving old cars and visiting historical landmarks. Part...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Other, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
On May 16, 2011, the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the United States Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Ali S. Khan, did something unusual. He did something that irrevocably changed the ways in which public health agencies around...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Slender Man is a monster that has crept into our frame of imagination in recent years. Invented on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009, the Slender Man has developed into an entire multi-platformed transmedia mythos.[1] Defined by his liminality, he makes a...
Jun 26, 2014 | fan culture, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Although it emerged only in the 1990s, the urban fantasy and paranormal romance genre now exerts a powerful influence on representations of monsters and the supernatural in popular culture. Over the last 25 years...
Jun 22, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Games, Other, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Ring Franchise The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially successful domestic horror film ever released — are polyvalent and anfractuous, constituted of almost unprecedented levels of...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Urban Space, Volume 21
Abstract: As the contemporary city becomes a site of complex negotiations between technology and people, the ubiquity of digital maps is disrupting traditional spatial paradigms. Here, the texts of the urban imagination are becoming increasingly geo-coded, changing...
