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Research Centre in Interactivity, Personalization and Experience

• The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice/IPE collaboration: Viable relational tools: development of software incorporating the functionality of wikis, bibliographies, and folksonomies and pedagogical user-based research
• Children’s experience of online culture: exploration, censorship and the taboo
• Critical perspectives on consumption in computer-mediated communication
• Performativity: the user as performer; blurred boundaries of producer/author and user/reader/viewer
• The creation and experience of interactive, non-linear and multimodal narratives
• Blogging, subjectivity and citizen journalism
• Blogging as a tool for learning: the student experience
• Locative/Pervasive media: usability and the sociological aspects of mobile technologies
• Intercultural design: corruption, purity and cultural ‘fuzziness’
• Anarchism: the intersection between interactive art and biotechnology
• Online multiplayer gaming: relations between theorist/designer/coder/player/player/coder/designer/theorist
• Continuing techno-divides: access, knowledge exchange and elitism

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