Convergence
The International Journal of Research into New Media TechnologiesNew Media and Communication Technology
Convergence aims to encourage and advance interdisciplinary modes of enquiry into the study of the histories, trajectories, impacts, practices, pleasures and creative potential of contemporary convergent media & allied innovative technologies.
Convergence is an international peer-reviewed academic journal which was set up in 1995 to address the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. As an international research journal, it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments in the field and for encouraging, publishing and promoting vital innovative research. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and published six times a year, Convergence has developed this area into an entirely new research field.
Topics include:
- Convergent media: histories, cross-cultural/international contexts, emergent products
- Digital creative production (music, television, art, photography, cinema, kinetic media)
- Games, gaming and ludic technologies
- Digital media distribution
- Mobile media/content
- Extended Realities (XR) – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality
- Local and Global Media Regulation and Infrastructure (e.g. Intellectual Property (IP), censorship, policy, platforms)
- Diversity, Inclusion and representational politics
- New techno-subjects of the anthropocene – Algorithmic, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life
- Democratisation of the digital economy: co-production, open access and block chain and cryptocurrency
- Distributed data, networked subjects and vulnerable publics
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Convergence is an international peer-reviewed academic journal which was set up in 1995 to address the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of what were then ‘emergent’ new media technologies. More than 20 years later we see the intense and ubiquitous integration and absorption of these technologies into almost every aspect of our everyday cultural, social, creative and political lives. As an international research journal, it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments in the field and for encouraging, publishing and promoting vital innovative research. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and published six times a year, Convergence has developed this area into an entirely new research field.
The principal aim of Convergence is:
- To encourage and advance interdisciplinary modes of enquiry into the study of the histories, trajectories, impacts, practices, pleasures and creative potential of contemporary convergent media and allied innovative technologies.
We seek research that supports this aim through:
- The development and application of critical frameworks and methodologies that enable the reception, consumption and impact of convergent media and convergent technologies to be evaluated in their domestic, commercial, public and educational contexts;
- Contextualising the study of these convergent media and technologies within existing critical academic debates, and to address the specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms;
- Monitoring, analyzing and evaluating the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms;
Promoting the discussion and analysis of the creative and pedagogic potentials of those technologies, and contextualising those cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates.
| Sarah Atkinson | King’s College London, UK |
| Helen W. Kennedy | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Ngai Keung Chan | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Crystal Abidin | Curtin University, Australia |
| Harikrishnan Bhaskaran | Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Olga Boichak | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Pat Brereton | Dublin City University, UK |
| Andre Brock | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Jean Burgess | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Earvin Cabalquinto | Deakin University, Australia |
| Patricio Cabello | Universidad de Chile, Chile |
| Christopher Chesher | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Aleena Chia | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Grayson Cooke | Southern Cross University |
| Patrick Crogan | University of the West of England, Bristol, UK |
| Gillian Doyle | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Elizabeth Evans | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Matthew Freeman | Bath Spa University, UK |
| Rodrigo Gomez Garcia | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico |
| Jennifer Holt | UC Santa Barbara, USA |
| Erkki Huhtamo | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Indrek Ibrus | Tallinn University, Estonia |
| Petros Iosifidis | City, University of London, UK |
| Brenda Laurel | Independent Scholar, USA |
| Jin Lee | Curtin University, Australia |
| Hayes Mabweazara | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Brandy Monk-Paton | Fordham University, USA |
| Shepherd Mpofu | University of Limpopo, South Africa |
| Simone Murray | Monash University, Australia |
| Anders Olof Larsson | Kristiania University College, Norway |
| Ágnes Petho | Sapientia University, Romania |
| Sheenagh Pietrobruno | Saint Paul University, Canada |
| Bojana Romic | Malmö University, Sweden |
| Kurt Squire | University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| Jeanette Steemers | King’s College London, UK |
| Ravi Sundaram | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India |
| Melanie Swalwell | Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia |
| Liza Tsaliki | University of Athens, Greece |
| Patrick Vonderau | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Jing Zeng | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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