Dr Gordon Fletcher's Outputs (69)

The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users (2012)
Thesis

Technology that is released to the public is often "locked down" or "tethered" ready for
domestication by the regular user in the way that the manufacturer believes that it will be used
(Zittrain, 2007). However, when users such as the hacker users... Read More about The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users.

A day in the digital life: a preliminary sousveillance study (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Fletcher, G., Griffiths, M., & Kutar, M. (2011, September). A day in the digital life: a preliminary sousveillance study. Presented at A Decade in Internet Time Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford

A decade ago, Castells argued that most surveillance would have no directly damaging consequences. He proposed that what should be of more concern were the unpredictable consequences of our over-exposed lives, the lack of explicit rules for on-line b... Read More about A day in the digital life: a preliminary sousveillance study.

Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the search & social media marketing industry? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Higher education institutions are often criticised for their lack of relevant educational courses that will equip students with the skills to meet specific industry needs. The issue of relevant education has been of particular significance to highly... Read More about Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the search & social media marketing industry?.

Reframing online shopping through innovative and organic user-oriented design (2011)
Book Chapter

The structure and form of the Web is defined by specific design elements; its protocols, the scope of acceptable file formats and the capability of clients. These elements are intentionally minimal constraints but nonetheless structure what can be ac... Read More about Reframing online shopping through innovative and organic user-oriented design.

#uksnow: webscience weather watch (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D., & Fletcher, G. (2010, October). #uksnow: webscience weather watch. Presented at Internet Research 11.0, Gothenburg, Sweden

Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology (2009)
Book Chapter
Greenhill, A., & Fletcher, G. (2009). Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology. In Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces (108-121). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-142-1.ch007

In this article we build upon existing research and commentary from a variety of disciplinary sources, including information systems, organisational and management studies, and the social sciences that focus upon the meaning, significance and impact... Read More about Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology.

Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology (2009)
Book Chapter
Greenhill, A., & Fletcher, G. (2009). Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology. In Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/9781878289919.ch123

In this article we build upon existing research and commentary from a variety of disciplinary sources, including information systems, organisational and management studies, and the social sciences that focus upon the meaning, significance and impact... Read More about Exploring "Events" as an Information Systems Research Methodology.

The Polysemy of Human-Computer Interaction (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides exemplars of the influence of digital artifacts upon cultural experiences. We argue that the associations between people and artifacts, and specifically digital artifacts, is an increasingly dense, interwoven, and pivotal aspect... Read More about The Polysemy of Human-Computer Interaction.

Blog/shop: it is authentic so don't worry^^^ (2009)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G., & Greenhill, A. (2009). Blog/shop: it is authentic so don't worry^^^. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 7(1), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/14779960910938089

Purpose – The popularity and persistence of Blogshops raises ethical issues regarding the presentation of the female teenage owners’ “self” to others and the relationship they maintain with buyers and other owners.
Design/methodology/approach – Thi... Read More about Blog/shop: it is authentic so don't worry^^^.

Postmodern methods in the context of human-computer interaction (2007)
Journal Article

The object and the event: The power in things (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Fletcher, G., & Greenhill, A. (2007, July). The object and the event: The power in things. Presented at Critical Management Studies, University of Manchester

This paper examines information and communications technology artefacts as a subset of the broader range of cultural items that surround and pervade contemporary experiences of the everyday. Within this context the paper utilises the critical perspec... Read More about The object and the event: The power in things.

Sustainable virtual world ecosystems (2007)
Journal Article
Campbell, J., Fletcher, G., & Greenhill, A. (2007). Sustainable virtual world ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1145/1314234.1314241

This paper outlines an agenda for research that contributes to the development of sustainable virtual world ecosystems. It provides direction for understanding the social aspects of both trust and conflict. Trust is often referred to in research to e... Read More about Sustainable virtual world ecosystems.

Exploring ‘events’ as an information systems research methodology (2007)
Journal Article

This paper builds upon existing research and commentary from a variety of disciplinary sources including Information Systems, Organisational and Management Studies, and the Social Sciences that focus upon the meaning, significance and impact of ‘even... Read More about Exploring ‘events’ as an information systems research methodology.

Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories (2007)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G., & Light, B. (2007). Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories. International Journal of Information Management, 27(6), 422-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2007.08.001

In this study, we develop a theorisation of an internet dating site as a cultural artifact. The site, Gaydar, is targeted at gay men. We argue that contemporary received representations of their sexuality figure heavily in the site's focus by providi... Read More about Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories.

Fight club: culture, conflict and everyday life amongst an online 'community' (2006)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G., Campbell, J., & Greenhill, A. (2006). Fight club: culture, conflict and everyday life amongst an online 'community'. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2(4), 474-489. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWBC.2006.011771

This paper examines a specific online community and the degree to which participants' association is constituted and reinforced through conflict. We sample the existing literature regarding online communities in an historical sense and critique the p... Read More about Fight club: culture, conflict and everyday life amongst an online 'community'.

We like… cultural traits in cyberculture (2006)
Book Chapter

An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory' (2004)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G. (2004). An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory'

This paper discusses the presentation of fame that can be identified through popular search terms. These terms reveal how the rapidly shifting interest in individual identities of ‘fame’ are cast against a continuous sequence of expected and unexpect... Read More about An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory'.

Cargo Cults in Java (2004)
Other

This paper is a personal account of my experience of teaching Java programming to undergraduate and postgraduate students. These students enter their respective subjects with no previous Java programming knowledge. However, the undergraduate students... Read More about Cargo Cults in Java.

Exploring 'tribal' identity to study online communities (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The social construction of electronic space (1996)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G., & Greenhill, A. (1996). The social construction of electronic space. Social Semiotics, 6(2), 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350339609384472

Computer‐mediated communication is a phenomenon of post‐industrial society. As a consequence of the interactivity and persistent textual nature of this form of communication, new spaces of sociality are constructed which can be analysed and interpret... Read More about The social construction of electronic space.