Publications

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2013
2012
2011
, , , and . "How to compare usability of techniques for the specification of virtual agents behavior? {A}n experimental pilot study with human subjects." In Proceedings of the AAMAS 2011 Workshop on the uses of Agents for Education, Games and Simulations, edited by , , and . Taipei, 2011.
, and . "Just an Artifact: Why Machines are Perceived as Moral Agents." In Proceedings of the $22^{nd}$ International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1641-1646. Barcelona: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
, , and . "Humanoid robots and cognitive systems research: {A}n epistemological case study based on the i{C}ub." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning. Frankfurt: IEEE, 2011.
, and . "Procedural Quests: A Focus for Agent Interaction in Role-Playing-Games." In Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: AI & Games, edited by and , 3-10. York: SSAISB, 2011.
. "A Role for Consciousness in Action Selection." In Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: Machine Consciousness, edited by and , 15-20. York: SSAISB, 2011.
. "Accidental Deaths: The Violence of Representing Childhood in "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit"." Red Feather Journal 2, no. 2 (2011): 1-17.
, , , and . Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture., 2011.
. Learning from YouTube. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2011.
"Teaching McLuhan: Understanding Understanding Media." Enculturation (2011).
, and . "An Agent-Based Model of the Effects of a Primate Social Structure on the Speed of Natural Selection." In Proceedings of the GECCO Companion Workshop: Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation, edited by and , 535-542. Dublin, 2011.
, , , and . "The role for simulations in theory construction for the social sciences: Case studies concerning Divergent Modes of Religiosity." under revision (2011).
. "Structuring Intelligence: {T}he Role of Hierarchy, Modularity and Learning in Generating Intelligent Behaviour." In The Complex Mind, edited by , and . Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.
2010
, and . "Flexible Latching: A Biologically-Inspired Mechanism for Improving the Management of Homeostatic Goals." Cognitive Computation 2 (2010): 230-241.
. "Robots Should Be Slaves." In Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, edited by , 63-74. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010.
. "Why Robot Nannies Probably Won't Do Much Psychological Damage." Interaction Studies 11 (2010): 196-200.
. "Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness." In From Brains to Systems: Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, edited by and , 454-467. Madrid, 2010.
, and . "Simplifying the Design of Human-Like Behaviour: {E}motions as Durative Dynamic State for Action Selection." International Journal of Synthetic Emotions 1 (2010): 30-50.
. "Cultural Ratcheting Results Primarily from Semantic Compression." In The Evolution of Language 8, edited by , , and , 50-57. Utrecht, 2010.
. Television style. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010.
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. "Batman versus The Green Hornet: The Merchandisable TV Text and the Paradox of Licensing in the Classical Network Era." Cinema Journal 49, no. 2 (2010): 63-85.
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, , , and . Flow {TV} : television in the age of media convergence. New York, {NY}: Routledge, 2010.
. The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet., 2010.
. An Evaluation of Behaviour Oriented Design for Robotic Applications. University of Bath, 2010.
. "The Need for Cognitive Systems in Medical Care." CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation Magazine 3 (2010): 35-36.
. Television and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
2009
, and . "Exploring Knowledge Dissemination as a Selective Force for Aggregation: Preliminary Results from Modelling Wild Asiatic Asses." In Levels of Selection and Individuality in Evolution: Conceptual Issues and the Role of Artificial Life Models, edited by . Budapest: The Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL '09), 2009.
. "Building Persons is a Choice." Erwägen Wissen Ethik 20 (2009): 195-197.
. "Representations Underlying Social Learning and Cultural Evolution." Interaction Studies 10 (2009): 77-100.
. "Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness." In The Second AISB Symposium Computing and Philosophy, edited by , 10-15. Edinburgh: SSAISB, 2009.
, , and . "A model of factors generating fission-fusion social dynamics." In The European Human Behaviour Association Conference, edited by , , , and , 36. St. Andrews, 2009.
. "Selection for variation: {E}volutionary processes affecting dominance, social structure and female mate choice." In The European Human Behaviour Association Conference, edited by , , , and , 29. St. Andrews, Scotland, 2009.
. Television and American culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
. Reinventing cinema : movies in the age of media convergence. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
. "Policing Miscarriage: Infertility Blogging, Rhetorical Enclaves, and the Case of House Bill 1677." Women's studies quarterly. 37, no. 1 (2009): 125.
. "Some rights reserved: Weblogs with Creative Commons licenses." In Composition & copyright : perspectives on teaching, text-making, and fair use, edited by . Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
, , and . Webbing cyberfeminist practice : communities, pedagogies, and social action. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2009.
, and . "Political Video Mashups as Allegories of Citizen Empowerment." First Monday (2009).
. Design Charrettes as Pedagogical Method in a Multimedia Design Course In ACM SIGDOC 2009. Bloomington, IN, 2009.
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. "In Memoriam." Modernism/Modernity 16 (2009): 5-6.
. "Inside the Box: Accessing Self-Reflexive Television." The Journal of E-Media Studies 2, no. 1 (2009).
It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television In Wesleyan Film Series. Wesleyan University Press, 2009.