WIRAD Paper

Ian and I are making great progress on the paper for the WIRAD Conference, which we need to be, as the deadline is the 13th of March.

I am addressing a number of areas for the WIRAD paper which are as follows: exploring surveillance, visibility and observation, locating panopticonism, increased technology, from the exteriority of cctv's to the interiority of webcams, where power comes from, and a synopsis of the game Gridlocked.

I am trying to order my reading and writing in a linear way, I've looked at texts and theories on surveillance, and now I am exploring texts about games and gaming about which I know very little, and I am finding it really interesting to engage with a whole new area. I am particularly enjoying a book called The Video Game Theory Reader, choc full of diverse research and ideas, from psychoanalysis and Avatars to sexuality in videogames - its fascinating stuff.
Its also giving me ideas about further research I'd like to do about Geeks.

I've just found this which is the most succinct way of defining Panopticons:
'all embracing in a single view' (Ainley, 2001)