Larissa Hjorth

Larissa Hjorth is researcher and artist lecturing in the Games and Digital Art Programs at RMIT University. 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 is currently editing two Routledge anthologies, Games of Locality: Gaming cultures in the Asia-Pacific (with Dean Chan) and Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin). Hjorth is regularly an invited speaker at International conferences on Mobile Media, Asia-Pacific popular culture, New Media, and ICTs.

GLAMM: Games, Location, Art & Mobile Media

The GLAMM blog (http://blog.glamm.org/) hopes to provide a taxonomy of projects and research in this area; we aim for GLAMM’s projects to be inclusive and we welcome new participants.

The GLAMM group aims to investigate ‘communities, practices and contexts’ within three areas/platforms:

1. Domestic

2. Institutional

3. Art

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