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Associate Professor

• Fields of Study

  • digital and new media, media studies, television studies, science and technology studies, cultural studies, visual studies

• About

  Sheila C. Murphy is a digital media scholar. She trained in visual studies at the University of Rochester (B.A.) and the University of California, Irvine (M.A., Ph.D.).
  
  She has been actively writing about computer culture, identity and the spaces and modes of engaging with media and technology since 1995. She approaches the everyday circumstances we use media in and on, how users play with technology and how technologies mediate life through a rigorous combination of methods, including visual analysis, history, and theories of culture, which she puts into contact with actual technologies, objects, and experiences.

  Recent Courses Taught

  SAC 367 Introduction to Digital Media Studies
  SAC 368 Virtuality and Digital Identity
  SAC 368 Video Games as Culture/Form
  SAC 376 Digital Media Theory

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2011) How Television Invented New Media

• Articles

  • (2009) Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds by Jesper Juul, Cinema Journal
  • (2004) "Live in your world, Play in ours": The Spaces of Video Game Identity, Journal of Visual Culture
  • (2001) Converging Channels (of Discourse): Linking Between Televisual and Digital Networks, Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics

• Book Chapters

  • (2009) 'This is Intelligent Television': Early Video Games & Television in the Emergence of the Personal Computer, The Video Game Theory Reader 2.0
  • (2000) Lurking and Looking: Webcams and the Construction of Cybervisuality, Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam
  • Unlimited Minutes: Playing Games in the Palm of Your Hand, Playing the Past