Dr Matthew Spokes

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Dr Matthew Spokes

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m.spokes@yorksj.ac.uk

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York Business School

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Biography

Expertise:

Video games, Death studies, Spatial theory

Job title:

Associate Dean: Social Sciences

Biography:

Matt’s research mainly focuses on popular culture, spatial theory and death. His recent work includes a book on video games and the sublime, as well as papers on the spatiality of the Wild West in video games; pro social behaviour and simulated violence; procedural rhetoric during the War on Terror and new methodological approaches to qualitative interviewing. Matt is current working on papers on grief and screen death and liminality/metaxis in cases of interstitial death.

Qualifications:

PhD in Sociology: The Contemporary Avant-garde: Classification, Organization, Spatiality and Practices of Resistance. University of York (2015) MA in Conflict, Governance and Development, University of York (2007) BA Hons in Politics and Sociology of Contemporary Culture, University of East Anglia (2005)

My Latest

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2022) Little Data: Negotiating the ‘New Normal’ with Idiosyncratic and Incomplete Datasets. International journal of Social Research Methodology.
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2020) Chapter 7. Fear. In: Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games. Emerald, pp. 103-124
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2020) Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games. Bingley, Emerald
Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2020) The Right to the Virtual City: Rural Retreatism in Open-World Video. New Media and Society. p. 1.
Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292, Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 and Hirschler, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5317-1917 (2019) Video game violence is not the problem – the real world that inspires it is. The Conversation.
Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292, Hirschler, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5317-1917 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2019) The Reification of Structural Violence in Video Games. Crime, Media, Culture. p. 1.
Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292, Hirschler, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5317-1917 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2019) Consumptive play : the reification of capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online. Proceedings of DiGRA 2019.
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 and Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 (2019) Developing Interactive Elicitation: Social Desirability Bias and Capturing Play. The Qualitative Report, 24 (4). pp. 781-794.
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2020) The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, procedural rhetoric and the military-entertainment complex: two case studies from the War on Terror. Media, War and Conflict, 13 (2). pp. 153-169.
Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2018) Thinking outside the ‘murder box’: virtual violence and pro-social action in video games. British Journal of Criminology, 59 (5). pp. 737-755.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Developing Interactive Elicitation: Social Desirability Bias and Capturing Play	402	197
2	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	133
3	“War…war never changes”: exploring explicit and implicit encounters with death in a post-apocalyptic gameworld	129	160
4	Class and narrative accrual: personal troubles and public issues in five vignettes.	111	158
5	The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, procedural rhetoric and the military-entertainment complex: two case studies from the War on Terror.	87	165
6	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	85
7	Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games	65	97
8	Chapter 7. Fear	39	38