Denham, Dr Jack

• Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminology
• School of Humanities

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Veal, Caitlin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-2881, Coward-Gibbs, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-7630, Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2024) ‘You feel like you've found a place where you belong’: Symbolic Interactionism and Online Social Video Games in the Age of COVID-19. Games and Culture.

Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879, Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292, Coward-Gibbs, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-7630 and Veal, Caitlin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-2881 (2024) ‘I wasn’t me, grieving in my room. I was Spiderman’: Gaming, Loss and Self-Care following COVID-19. Mortality, 30 (1). pp. 157-172.

Mitman, Tyson ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4093-8485 and Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 (2024) Into the Meme Stream: The Value and Spectacle of Internet Memes. New Media and Society, 27 (6). pp. 3470-3486.

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292, Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879, Coward-Gibbs, Matt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-7630 and Veal, Caitlin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-2881 (2023) Personal, Pedagogic Play: A Dialogic Model for Video Game Learning. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 33 (3). pp. 805-822.

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 (2023) The Staycation: Home. In: Lynes, Adam, Kelly, Craig and Treadwell, James, (eds.) 50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism. Bristol, Policy Press

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2023) Il diritto alla città virtuale: la regressione rurale nei videogiochi open world. In: Bittanti, Matteo, (ed.) Reset. Politica e videogiochi. Eterotopie (837). Mimesis, pp. 259-291

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, 26 (6). pp. 679-691.

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Spokes, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6456-3879 (2021) The Right to the Virtual City: Rural Retreatism in Open-World Video. New Media and Society, 23 (6). pp. 1567-1583.

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.

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 (2019) Collecting the Dead: Antique, Aura and Authenticity in Personal Collections of Murderabilia. Mortality.

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.

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.

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, Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 and Lehmann, Benedikt (2018) Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces. Emerald

Denham, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-8292 (2016) The commodification of the criminal corpse: ‘selective memory’ in posthumous representations of criminal. Mortality, 21. pp. 229-245.