Sep 2, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Games, Volume 27
Abstract: The paper deals with the question of how digital games become cultural heritage. By using examples of changing conceptualisations of the first commercial Finnish computer game, the paper illuminates the amateur and professional historicising of computer...
Sep 2, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Games, Museums, Older Media, Volume 27
The collection and preservation of the ‘born digital’ has, in recent years, become a growing and significant area of debate. The honeymoon years are over and finally institutions are beginning to give serious consideration to best practice for digital preservation...
Aug 30, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Museums, Volume 27
Abstract: George Poonkhin Khut’s sensory artwork, Distillery: Waveforming 2012, was the winner of the 2012 National New Media Art Award. This immersive installation artwork is a biofeedback, controlled interactive that utilises the prototype iPad application...
Aug 30, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Museums, Uncategorized, Volume 27
Themed Issue: Born Digital Cultural Heritage Edited by Angela Ndalianis & Melanie Swalwell Introduction: Born Digital Heritage – Angela Ndalianis & Melanie Swalwell It Is What It Is, Not What It Was: Making Born Digital Heritage – Henry Lowood Defining The...
Aug 30, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, Museums, Older Media, Print Media, Uncategorized, Volume 27
Abstract: Studies of digital manuscripts generally focus on the technical capabilities of collecting institutions, digital storage and preservation, recovery of corrupted or out-dated material, and provision of access. The potential content of future, digital...
Aug 30, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Games, Uncategorized, Volume 27
Abstract: In 1981, two Melbourne University students were hired part-time to write a text adventure game. The result was the game The Hobbit (Melbourne House, 1981), based on Tolkien’s book (Tolkien), which became one of the most successful text adventure games ever....
