Prof Ben Light's Outputs (103)

Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps : emerging issues for critical social science research (2017)
Journal Article
Albury, K., Burgess, J., Light, B., Race, K., & Wilken, R. (2017). Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps : emerging issues for critical social science research. Big Data and Society, 4(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717720950

The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concern... Read More about Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps : emerging issues for critical social science research.

The material role of digital media in connecting with, within, and beyond museums (2016)
Journal Article

The connective potentials of digital media have been positioned as a key part of a contemporary museum visitor experience. Using a sociology of translation, we construct a network of visitor experiences using data from a digital media engagement proj... Read More about The material role of digital media in connecting with, within, and beyond museums.

Making digital cultures of gender and sexuality with social media (2016)
Journal Article

This article introduces a special issue concerning the interweaving of gender, sexuality, and social media. There are 10 articles included in the issue which together map out a landscape of diverse areas of interest covering topics such as sexism and... Read More about Making digital cultures of gender and sexuality with social media.

The rise of speculative devices : hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison (2016)
Journal Article

I attend to two areas of increasing significance in relation to Web 2.0 since its announcement in 2005. The first is a focus on the non-human in digital media research, and the second is the normalisation of dating apps in society. Building upon idea... Read More about The rise of speculative devices : hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison.

Branded app implementation at the London Symphony Orchestra (2016)
Journal Article

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the London Symphony Orchestra’s development, implementation and testing of a branded smartphone app. This app was designed to primarily sell discounted tic... Read More about Branded app implementation at the London Symphony Orchestra.

Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks (2016)
Book Chapter

Since the release of the Grindr app in 2009, interest in digitally mediated public sexual cultures concerning men who have sex with men has increased. Yet, digital mediation of such public sexual cultures through apps had begun more than a decade bef... Read More about Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks.

Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection : rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook (2014)
Journal Article
Light, B., & Cassidy, E. (2014). Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection : rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook. New Media and Society, 16(7), 1169-1184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814544002

This article attends to the idea of disconnection as a way of theorising people’s lived experience of social networking sites. Enrolling and extending a disconnective practice lens, we suggest that the disconnective strategies of suspension and preve... Read More about Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection : rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook.

An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction (2014)
Journal Article

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employ... Read More about An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction.

Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement (2014)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2014). Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement. Information, Communication and Society, 17(9), 1072-1085. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.877953

The participatory turn, fuelled by discourses and rhetoric regarding social media, and in the
aftermath of the dot.com crash of the early 2000s, enrols to some extent an idea of being
able to deploy networks to achieve institutional aims. The arts... Read More about Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement.

Digitally mediated social networking practices: A focus on connectedness and disconnectedness (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project (2013)
Report

This report represents the output from research undertaken by University of Salford and MTM
London as part of the joint Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, operated by Nesta, Arts
Council England and the AHRC. University of Salford and MTM Lon... Read More about The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project.

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.

'Connect and create’ : young people, YouTube and graffiti communities (2012)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Light, B., & Lincoln, S. (2012). 'Connect and create’ : young people, YouTube and graffiti communities. Continuum, 26(3), 343-355. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.665833

Dominant discourses around young people and social networking in the mass media are littered with negative connotations and moral panics. While some scholars challenge this negativity, their focus has predominantly been upon the formation of friendsh... Read More about 'Connect and create’ : young people, YouTube and graffiti communities.

An e-support firm's response to local e-readiness and the global e-business environment (2011)
Book Chapter

The purpose of this study is to understand a small e-support firm’s response to the local e-readiness and the global e-business environment in a developing context. E-Support firms provide Web development and consultancy services to user organization... Read More about An e-support firm's response to local e-readiness and the global e-business environment.

Delivering and measuring the impact of digital media : evaluation toolkit (2011)
Report

Online gaming in context : the social and cultural significance of online games (2011)
Book

There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our ever... Read More about Online gaming in context : the social and cultural significance of online games.

It's not just a game : contemporary challenges for games research and the internet (2011)
Book Chapter

The social and cultural significance of online gaming (2011)
Book Chapter

Lesbian, gay and bisexual women in the north west: a multi-method study of cervical screening attitudes, experiences and uptake (2011)
Other

The NHS Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP), committed to reducing health inequalities for lesbian and bisexual (LGB) women within cervical screening programmes, funded this research study in response to the Department of Health’s 2007 Cancer Refor... Read More about Lesbian, gay and bisexual women in the north west: a multi-method study of cervical screening attitudes, experiences and uptake.

Tracing the emergence and formation of small dot-coms in an emerging digital economy : an actor-network theory approach (2011)
Thesis

The purpose of this study is to trace the emergence and formation of small dot-corns to
understand how they come into being and are made to work or not. The SME e-business
literature emphasises post-organisation and post-technology formation phases... Read More about Tracing the emergence and formation of small dot-coms in an emerging digital economy : an actor-network theory approach.