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This book explores the relationships between the literary and technological as they appear in Irish literature, arguing for an Irish post-digital literature that is both unique and exemplary. Post-digital in this context describes myriad and proliferating cultural effects of life after digital, a range of responses to new and emergent digital technologies.
[forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan]
This chapter examines the ways in which podcasts share structural and epistemological affinities with ecological processes, engaging the conversational science podcast Stuff to Blow Your Mind as a case study.
In Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (eds. Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry) [forthcoming].
Read moreThis article argues for the dark-ecological podcast, characterised by emergent aesthetics of uncanniness, pervasive anxiety, bodily permeability, and a complex relationship to the ‘local,’ all explored with dark ecology in mind.
Revenant: Critical and Cultural Studies of the Supernatural, special issue on Multiplatform Horror [forthcoming].
Read moreThis paper foregrounds the importance of systems comprehension to engaging consumers in sustainable energy practices, arguing that interactive (online) games engage consumers while also demonstrating complex system dynamics through simulation.
Futures 81 (2016): 119-129.
Read moreA discussion of how rewilding, or the restoration of wild spaces in ecological contexts, has analogues in contemporary writing and critical studies. A view of how modern epistemologies defer to complexity as the "natural" form of cultural and biological processes.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies18.2 (2016).
Read moreHow can sustainable energy projects increase engagement from consumers using interactive media communications? To answer this complex question, the authors conducted a systematic literature review, synthesising findings across planning, energy, marketing, policy, and interactive media to identify challenges for engagement, and emergent solutions, for engaging consumers with sustainable energy.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2015): pp. 1611-1621.
Read moreIn the era of hyperspace, geographic identity changes ... but how? This paper explores relationships between the digital and the (post)national, looking to Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson as an illustration of a new, "open-source" geographical identity that is written, appropriately, in code.
Nordic Irish Studies 10 (2011): p 15-33.
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