ESRC RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES ON Identities and Consumption
Seminar One
Consumption, cyber-identities and new forms of citizenship
Monday January 30th 2006
12.30 to 5.30pm
University of Bath, Room 3.14, Building 8 West
(Lunch and refreshments in the Foyer of Building 8 West)
Programme
12.15 – 1.15 Lunch and refreshments (in Foyer of 8 West)
1.15 – 1.30 Introductions and welcome (in room 3.14, 8 West)
1.30 – 2.15 ‘‘Pleasure, video games and projective identities’ James Gee,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2.15 – 3.00 ‘Skeletons and broccoli: Designing educational games for
video-game consumers’ Jacob Habgood, LSRI, University of Nottingham
3.00 – 3.15 Tea/coffee (in Foyer of 8 West)
3.15 – 4.00 ‘Presentation of self on Online dating sites’ Monica Whitty,
Queens University, Belfast
4.00 – 4.45 ‘Forms of political and commercial participation in the new
media environment’ Andrea Press, University of Illinois
4.45 – 5.00 Closing remarks. Christine Griffin, University of Bath, Seminar
Series Organiser
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