Larissa Hjorth
Larissa Hjorth is a researcher, artist and senior lecturer in the Games and Digital Art Programs at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered customizing of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific. Hjorth has published widely on the topic in journals such as Convergence journal, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Fibreculture and Southern Review. She recently co-edited two Routledge anthologies, Gaming Culture and Place in Asia-Pacific (with Dean Chan, 2009) and Mobile Technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin, 2009). Hjorth is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and recently she was awarded an ARC Discovery (with Michael Arnold) APD Fellowship to conduct a longitudinal, cross-cultural case study of online communities in six locations in the region over the next three years. Her website can be found here.
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