Dr Matthew Spokes

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Dr Matthew Spokes

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m.spokes@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Psychological and Social Sciences

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TW210

Biography

Expertise:

Death studies, Spatial theory, Video games

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Biography:

Matt’s research mainly focuses on popular culture, spatial theory and death. His more recent work includes a co-authored book on death, memorialization and deviant spaces, as well as papers on 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 around narratives and morality in video gaming and liminality/metaxis in cases of interstitial death. In 2020 his book developing the 'virtual sublime' will be available from Emerald.

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)

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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 (2019) 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.
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.
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879, Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Lehmann, Benedikt (2018) Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces. Emerald
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879, Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Lehmann, Benedikt (2018) Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces. 1 ed. Emerald Studies in Death and Culture . Bingley, Emerald
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2017) Class and narrative accrual: personal troubles and public issues in five vignettes. Journal of Working Class Studies, 2 (2). pp. 63-74.
Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2017) “War…war never changes”: exploring explicit and implicit encounters with death in a post-apocalyptic gameworld. Mortality.

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	Item title	Views
1	“War…war never changes”: exploring explicit and implicit encounters with death in a post-apocalyptic gameworld	583
2	Class and narrative accrual: personal troubles and public issues in five vignettes.	466
3	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	431
4	Thinking outside the ‘murder box’: virtual violence and pro-social action in video games	340
5	Developing Interactive Elicitation: Social Desirability Bias and Capturing Play	274
6	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	268
7	The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, procedural rhetoric and the military-entertainment complex: two case studies from the War on Terror.	208
8	Consumptive play : the reification of capitalism in Grand Theft Auto Online	98