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Development Gender

A Master Betrayed!

The physical installation of A Master Betrayed! at the East Looe Old Gaol Museum (Copyright Rob Sherman).

A Master Betrayed! is a set of physical and digital interactive narrative works, connected with the East Looe Old Gaol Museum in Cornwall, UK. This volunteer-led museum, occupying the medieval magistrate’s court building at the centre of this small fishing port, tells of the town’s civic, social and economic history through the stories of the […]

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Ethics

Picture Imperfect: Photography, Dark Tourism and Video Games

Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital/Playism). Image from Umurangi Generation official gallery.

“Prior to photography, places did not travel well” (Urry and Larsen 2011, 166). If the advent of photography heralded the increased conceptual portability of places, what does the representation of those places in video games mean? What are the ethical implications of engaging with video games as a form of digital tourism, especially when the […]