Dr. David Murphy 3-246 Dupont Street Toronto, Ontario M5R 1V7 (416) 576-4905 [email protected]
Research Interests:
Game Studies Digital Media Studies Creative and Cultural Industries Innovation and Intellectual Property
Education:
PhD, Communication and Culture, York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, June, 2016. Thesis: Struggling with Simulations: Decoding the Neoliberal Politics of Digital Games Supervisor: Dr. Bruno Lessard
MA, Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, June, 2008. MRP: Transgressive Pleasure in Arcade Gaming Supervisor: Dr. Janine Marchessault
BA, Combined Honors Media, Information, and Technoculture, and Film Studies with distinction, Western University, London, Ontario, June, 2005.
Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants, and Awards:
Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Government of Australia, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, January, 2018.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counsel Connection Grant, The Community Media Convergence Conference, The Government of Canada, July, 2015.
Rogers Graduate Fellowship, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, September, 2011.
Ryerson Graduate Fellowship, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, September, 2010.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, The Government of Ontario, September, 2012.
Gold Medal, Combined Honors Media, Information, and Technoculture, and Film Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, June, 2005.
Nortel Networks Scholarship for Excellence in Media Studies, Western University, September, 2002.
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Peer Reviewed Publications:
EDITED ANTHOLOGIES
Murphy, D., Swalwell, M., and Garda, M. (In process). Crafting, hacking, and making: DIY pasts, presents, and futures.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Murphy, D. (In review). Water, sand, and boolean logic: Minecraft and the post-digital politics of slow. First Monday.
Murphy, D. (2016). Hybrid moments: Using ludonarrative dissonance for political critique. Loading… 10 (15), 1-12.
Murphy, D. (2014). Battle on the metric front: Dispatches from Call of Duty’s update war. Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research 14 (2).
Murphy, D. (2013). Hacking public memory: Understanding the multiple arcade machine emulator. Games and Culture 8 (1), 43-53.
Murphy, D. (2012). Virtual Canadian realities: Charting the Scott Pilgrim universe. International Journal of Canadian Studies 45-46, 495-507.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Murphy, D. (Forthcoming, 2019). Hardware hacking and the forensic Imagination: Location and locality in the PlayStation Portable hacking scene. In M. Swalwell (Ed.), Game history and the local. McGill-Queens University Press.
Murphy, D. (2017). Remediating, remodeling, and reframing the machines of modern war. In N. Garret (Ed.), Critical essays on Call of Duty: Responding to the game franchise. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Deeming, S., & Murphy, D. (2017). Pirates, platforms, and players: Theorizing post-consumer fan histories through the Sega Dreamcast. In M. Swalwell, A. Ndalianis, & H. Stuckey (Eds.), Fans and videogames: Histories, fandom, archives. New York: Routledge. Reprinted and translated in Kinephanos (2018).
Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
The 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel, Montréal, Canada October 10-13, 2018. “Hacking and making the digital era: Sony’s PlayStation Portable and the post-digital politics of piracy.” (Paper accepted) David Murphy 3
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, User Hacking and Making in the Digital Era panel, the Sheraton Center, Toronto, Ontario, March 14-18, 2018. “Making and Playing on the TRS-80.”
International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory, 5th Annual Conference, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, October 22, 2017. “Reloading the Reality of Modern War: Unmanned, This War of Mine, and The Real Army Simulator.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Black Boxes, Walled Gardens: Political Economies of Copyright and Digital Rights Management Technologies panel, Fairmount Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 2017. “Consoles, Copyright, and Conduct: Fair Use and the Recording and Sharing of Play.”
Union for Democratic Communications, Circuits of Struggle, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 2, 2015. “Community Media Policy in the Digital Environment.” Roundtable discussion with Catherine Edwards, Darryl Richardson, and Kirsten Kozolanka.
The Society for Utopian Studies, 39th Annual Meeting: Global Work and Play, Delta Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, October 25, 2014. “Freedom from Control: Debt and Utopian Enclaves in Digital Games.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, War Stories: Atrocity, Surveillance, and Ideology panel, The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 2013. “Is there really no 'i' in ‘team': Call of Duty's Neoliberal Fog of War.”
NATIONAL CONFERENCES
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Games Studies Association Annual Meeting, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, June 2, 2017. “Adaptability, Inclusivity, and Sustainability: A Conversation with Toronto’s Hand Eye Society.”
Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 1, 2016. “Programming Magic: Minecraft and the Aesthetics of Slow Technologies.”
Game History Annual Symposium, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, June 30, 2016. “Pirates, Platforms, and Players: Hacking as Remix and Post-Consumer Fan Histories.”
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, June 5, 2015. “Politics of Affordance.”
The Building Blocks of Life: A Minecraft Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, February 13, 2015. “Decoding Minecraft’s ‘Open’ Development.” David Murphy 4
Meaningful Play, East Lansing, Michigan, October 16, 2014. “Game History and Preservation: The Roles of Industry, Institutions, and Fans.” Roundtable Discussion with Nathan Kelber and David Carter.
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Catherines, Ontario, May 29, 2014. “Using ludonarrative dissonance for political critique.”
Pressing Restart: Community Discussions on Video Game Preservation, New York University, New York, September 28, 2013. “Emulation, Metadata and Access: Forging Multi-dimensional approaches to game preservation.”
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, June 5, 2013. "Simulation and its Discontents: Rethinking Model Based Approaches to Game Studies."
Popular Culture Association of Canada, Sheraton Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario, May 11, 2013. "Neoliberal Play: Unlocking the Politics of Popular Games."
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, June 1, 2011. "Are Video Games Monopolized?"
Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Games Studies Association/ Film Studies Association of Canada co-panel, Waterloo, Ontario, May 30, 2011. "Sound, Image, Emulation: The Parallel Preservation of Games and Films."
Immersive Worlds, Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, June 13, 2011. “Virtual Canadian Realities: Charting the Scott Pilgrim Universe.”
Presentations and Policy Interventions:
Game Curious, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, May 28, 2016. “Narrative Logic vs. Gameplay Logic: An Overview of an Ongoing Debate.”
The Canadian Radio and Television Commission Review of the Policy Framework for Local and Community Television Programming, Ottawa, Ontario, February 1, 2016.
Community Media Convergence Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, November 22, 2015. “Using Open Source Tools for Community Game Development.”
Game Curious, Toronto Reference Library Digital Media Hub, Toronto, Ontario, September 27, 2014. “Location Specific Art Games.”
Bento Miso, Toronto, Ontario, January 21, 2013. “Reclaiming Crapware.” Panel discussion with Skot Deeming, Jim McGinley, and Ryan Creighton. David Murphy 5
Work Experience:
FULL INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, Ontario, January, 2017 – April, 2018 CMST 3II3 – Communication and the Politics of Intellectual Property • Delivered weekly lectures on copyright, patent, and trademark law. • Compared legal arguments to everyday user experiences using active learning exercises, including brainstorming, role playing, and debate activities. • Invited Natasha Tusikov to discuss her new book: Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. • Ran a workshop on conducting legal research using websites and databases
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, Brantford, Ontario, September, 2016 – April, 2018 ENG 381 – Gaming and Narrative Theory • Delivered weekly lectures on the history, theory, and culture of interactive storytelling. • Created a critical audiovisual essay assignment in which students use screen capture software to record and reflect on their game playing experiences. • Ran a workshop on methodological approaches to game criticism.
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, Ontario, January, 2016 – April, 2018 MEDIA 3K03 – Digital Games • Delivered weekly lectures on key concepts in game studies. • Conducted a series of Twine workshops that taught students how to make hypertext games using free open source software. • Designed a midterm examination, a final essay, and audiovisual essay assignments. • Invited Navnnet Randhawa to lecture on the rise E-sports and her experiences covering professional gaming tournaments.
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, September, 2016 – January, 2018 NPF 566 – History of Animation • Delivered weekly lectures on the the first 100 years of animation. • Invited Sagan Yee to discuss her experiences working as an animator producing content for television and video games. • Took the class to see Tina Nawrocki, a 2d Animator & Concept Artist, describe her experiences working as an animator on Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment, 2017).
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, Ontario, September, 2016 – January, 2017 CMST 2LW3 – Communication Policy and Law • Delivered weekly lectures examining the role of government policy, regulation, and law on the structure and functioning of the mass media. • Taught students how to research law and policy by submitting access to information requests and consulting judicial decisions and legislation. • Created an online debate assignment that connected current events to a range of communication policy issues. David Murphy 6
CO-INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS
OCAD UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, January, 2016 – May, 2016 DIGF 6019 – Digital Theory • Directed weekly seminars designed to provide MA and MFA students with a survey of key issues in contemporary digital theory. • Co-created an updated course pack that includes book chapters and articles. • Graded presentations, annotated bibliographies, and final essays. • Helped students with thesis projects and major research papers by suggesting additional readings.
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, January, 2013 – April, 2013 SOC 202 – Popular Culture • Delivered weekly lectures that examined the politics of popular culture, specifically focusing on stereotypes, ideologies, resistance, and active audience activities. • Developed an assignment requiring students to analyze the stereotypes found in a clip from Legally Blonde (2001). • Provided a special lecture on using signal phrases and parsed quotations to smoothly integrate secondary sources into scholarly writing.
TEACHING ASSISTANT POSITIONS
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, January, 2016 – May, 2016 CRI 200 — Intellectual Property Issues in the Digital Age • Ran weekly tutorials that used case studies to examine the contemporary application of intellectual property law. • Evaluated in class debates using iclicker 2 polling software that allows students to anonymously peer-review each other. • Marked essays, diary entries, and creative poster assignments.
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, September, 2014 – December, 2014 HIS 105 – Inventing Popular Culture • Instructed weekly tutorials examining the history of popular culture. • Taught students how to locate, evaluate, and integrate peer reviewed sources. • Graded quizzes, essays, and a final take-home exam. • Created questions for the midterm and final examination.
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario, January, 2012 – December, 2014 SOC 525 – Media and Images of Inequality • Instructed weekly tutorials that examined the representation of disability, race, age, ethnicity, gender, social class and sexual orientation in media imagery. • Lectured on active audiences and audience studies. • Assisted with the creation of lectures, writing assignments, and exams. • Peer mentored junior teaching assistants. . • Lectured on active audience studies. David Murphy 7
Academic Associations:
SERVICE
Curator, Canadian Games Studies Association Annual Meeting, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, June 2, 2017. Game Design Track.
Reviewer, Loading…: Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, August, 2012 – Present
President, Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Association, Ryerson University, September, 2011 – August, 2012.
Student Representative, Film and Video, York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Council, September, 2008 – August, 2009
MEMBERSHIP
Association of Internet Researchers, July 2018 – Present
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), August, 2014 – Present
The Society for Games and Literary Theory – October, 2017 – Present
Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA), May, 2010 – Present
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March, 2013 – Present
The Society for Utopian Studies, October, 2014 – Present
Community Associations:
SERVICE
Game Curious Curriculum Committee, Toronto, ON, January, 2015 – Present
Juror, IndieCade: International Festival of Independent Games, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, May, 2015 – June, 2015
ICTV Application Steering Committee, Toronto, ON, October, 2014 – May, 2015
Volunteer, Vector Game Art Festival, Toronto, ON, February, 2013 – Present
MEMBERSHIP
The Hand Eye Society, Toronto, ON, March, 2011 – Present