Dr Matthew Spokes

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Dr Matthew Spokes

Email address:

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)

My Latest

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. (In Press)
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.
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.

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	“War…war never changes”: exploring explicit and implicit encounters with death in a post-apocalyptic gameworld	59	61
2	Developing Interactive Elicitation: Social Desirability Bias and Capturing Play	59	46
3	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	57	0
4	Class and narrative accrual: personal troubles and public issues in five vignettes.	37	62
5	The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, procedural rhetoric and the military-entertainment complex: two case studies from the War on Terror.	28	46
6	Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces	26	0