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How We Get Gooey: Exploring Screen and Convergence Media Today
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Screen media increasingly overlap and intermingle with one another, both in the form of convergent media universes, and in the personalised physical infrastructure that provides this material to us (the phones, tablets, and laptops we use to access this content). In my book, Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface (2023), I explore this latter process in particular, mapping the ways that media cross-pollination leaves traces on everything from TV to cinema, VR to videogames, apps to architecture. In this paper I provide an overview of some of these ideas, foregrounding the importance of cross-medial surveying and what I refer to as "media agnosticism" in our analysis of contemporary screen media. I also consider the creation of this monograph itself, and the challenges and opportunities involved in generating research outputs on cross-disciplinary subjects today.
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Dr Nick Jones
Dr Nick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film, TV and Digital Culture at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory (2015), Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture (2020) and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface (2023). He is currently gearing up a project on time loops and the multiverse.
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