Scan is a refereed online journal (ISSN 1449-1818) devoted to the media arts and culture, hosted by the Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Its approach is inter-disciplinary, as is its subject matter. Scan draws on media studies, cultural studies, media law, information and technology studies, fine arts and philosophy. Scan considers developments in new media, digital art, screen arts, music and audio arts, as well as the culture enveloping these practices and technologies.
Scan Journal is concerned with both the aesthetics and the political economy of media arts, as practised in both new and traditional media forms. Each issue is thematic, comprising 6-10 articles, with a maximum word-length of 6,000 words.
Information articles are non-refereed articles relating to the theme of each issue.
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1. Rethinking Ecology in the Anthropocene: Knowledges, Practices, Ethics and Politics
Kate Wright and Catherine Simpson
2. Being Croc-savvy: Ecology, crocodile education, and rescuing propositional knowledge
Kate Rossmanith
3. Food waste, intimacy and compost: The stirrings of a new ecology?
Bethaney Turner
4. An Ethics of Entanglement for the Anthropocene
Kate Wright
5. Anthropocene Hospitality: belonging in/to a changing climate
Elaine Kelly
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1. The In/Visibilities of Code and Aesthetics of Redaction
Lawson Fletcher, Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy
2. Sheer Hardware: Material Computing in the Work of Martin Howse and Ralf Baecker
Mitchell Whitelaw
Scott Wark
4. Collecting and Conserving Code: Challenges and Strategies
Melanie Swalwell and Denise de Vries
5. Gestural Economy and Cooking Mama: Playing With the Politics of Natural User Interfaces
Luke van Ryn
6. Demanding Media: Platform Work and the Shaping of Work and Play
Justine Humphry
7. Code, Democracy, and DDoS Attacks
Robbie Fordyce
8. Through the Screen: Deconstructing Spatial Dualism in Augmented Reality Games
Kyle Moore
9. Code-Breaking and Videogame Engrossment
Mike Skolnik
10. Faceless Bodies: Negotiating Technological and Cultural Codes on reddit gonewild
Emily van der Nagel
11. White Lines: Code and the Aesthetics of Intimacy
Jason Wilson
Dean Keep and Laura Crawford
13. The Intimacy of the Command Line
Nancy Mauro-Flude
Andre Brodyk
15. Commentary: The Human Fax Machine Experiment
Brogan Bunt and Lucas Ihlein
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1. Introduction
Jack Sargeant and Alex Munt
2. Film Democracy: Jem Cohen @occupywallstreet
Bennet Schaber
3. Trash Humpers and the Search for the Sublime in the Age of Viral Video
Adam Trainer
4. Sinister Sonorities: The new sound of horror cinema in the 1970s
Clare Nina Norelli
5. Performing the 1950s New Australian
Dirk de Bruyn
Michael Spann
7. Visceral Shock in Cate Shortland’s Somersault
Grady Hancock
8. Lynne Ramsay: Outsider Auteur
Denah Johnston
Katherine Berger
10. Digital Media and the Emergence of Contemporary Film Subgenres
Stefan Popescu
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1. Introduction
Steve Collins and Ian Collinson
2. Beginning Again: The Reboot Phenomenon in Comic Books and Film
William Proctor
3. Special Effect: Have film adaptations changed mainstream comics?
Liam Burke
Michael J. Prince
Lynn Gelfand
6. Rogue Paratexts: Epo's Graphic Classic Adaptations and the Jupien Effect
Charlotte Pylyser
7. Apocalypse Why? The Neutralisation of the Antichrist Motif in Three Comics Adaptations
Maaheen Ahmed and Martin Lund
8. A Drawing of the World: Documentary and Comic Book
Josep Catala
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1. Introduction
Sarah Keith, John Scannell, Becky Shepherd
2. On Not Performing: the third enclosure and fractal neo-feudal fantasies
Andrew Murphie
3. Bound[aries]: An Investigation of Sadomasochistic Imagery in Merzbow's Music For Bondage Performance
Daniel Wilson
4. Unacceptable Censorship: The Bill Henson Case Revisited
Tony Mitchell
5. 'Intersex imperialism' and the case of Caster Semenya: the unacceptable women's body
Stephen Kerry
Jacek Kornak
Nikó Antalffy