Author: Alison Harvey

Alison Harvey is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, where she leads the MA Media, Gender, and Social Justice. Her research and teaching focuses on issues of inclusivity and accessibility in digital culture, with an emphasis on games. She is the author of Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context published in 2015 by Routledge. Her forthcoming book, Feminist Media Studies, will be published by Polity Press. Her work has also appeared in a range of interdisciplinary journals, including Games & Culture, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Information, Communication & Society, Social Media & Society, and Studies in Social Justice.

Tits or GTFO: The Aggressive Architecture of the Internet
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

May 24, 2019 Alison Harvey Leave a comment

Alison Harvey borrows concepts from critical architecture studies to argue that ‘active inactivity’ in dealing with toxic and hateful speech and action in the regulation of social media web sites functions as aggressive architecture, sidelining the concerns, needs, and well-being of Othered publics.

Doing Nothing: The Pleasure and Power of Idle Media
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

March 24, 2019 Alison Harvey One comment

Alison Harvey compares the appeal of slow and mundane Terrace House to the idle video game genre. She explores audiences’ move away from media’s demands of hyper-competitivity and self-actualization and suggests mainstream gaming increasingly includes pockets of idleness in its design.

Just Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

January 29, 2019 Alison Harvey Leave a comment

Alison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.

Tits or GTFO: The Aggressive Architecture of the Internet Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

Doing Nothing: The Pleasure and Power of Idle Media Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

Just Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

Tits or GTFO: The Aggressive Architecture of the Internet
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

Doing Nothing: The Pleasure and Power of Idle Media
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

Just Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester