Aphra Kerr - Selected Publications#

Barry, M. and Kerr, Aphra (2025) ‘Retooling ethics and technology for a critical and just digital future.’ Chapter 4, pg 52-61, in Bulut, E., Chen, J. Y., Grohmann, R., Jarrett K., (Eds) SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour. Sage Publications: London. December. ISBN: 9781529669831

Dhingra, M., Kerr, A., & Lehane, J. R. (2025). ‘Rethinking’ digital twins and building alternatives for smart city planning in Dublin. In R. Kamat & A. Stupar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress (pp. 944–954). International Society of City and Regional Planners. https://isocarp.org/app/uploads/2025/04/ISOCARP_2024_Dhingra_254.pdf. ISBN: 978-90-75524-819. 23rd June 2025.

Kitchin, P., McEvoy, E., Kerr, A., O’ Brennan, J. (2024) Understanding mediated sports consumption by Irish children: a qualitative study exploring their exposure and understanding of gambling marketing, risks and harms. BMC Public Health 24, 2478 (2024).

Kerr, Aphra (2024) ‘Participatory and Collaborative Governance’ In the Handbook of Media and Communication Governance. Puppis, M., Mansell, R. and Van Den Bulck, H. (Eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 5 Jul 2024. Chapter 13, pp 166-177. ISBN: 978 1 80088 719 0

Pierson, J., Kerr, A., Robinson, S. C., Fanni, R., Steinkogler, V. E., Milan, S., Zampedri, G. (2023). Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Media and Communications sector. Internet Policy Review, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.14763/2023.1.1683

Kerr, Aphra and Andrew Iliadis (Guest Editors, 2022) Independence. An Introduction to the #AoIR21 Special issue and including 9 papers from the Association for Internet Research Conference 2021, Information, Communication and Society. 2022. Vol (25) Issue 6. Pg 727-886. partial open access https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2063063

Kerr, Aphra (2021) ‘The Circulation Game: shifting production logics and circulation moments in the digital games industry.’ In Digital Media Distribution. Portals, Platforms and Pipelines. Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens (Eds.), New York: New York University Press. Chapter 5, pgs 107-125. ISBN 978-1-4798-0678-2 https://nyupress.org/9781479806782/digital-media-distribution

Kerr, Aphra (2021) ‘Before and After: Towards Inclusive Production Studies, Theories, and Methods.’ Afterword. Game Production Studies. Cultural Studies of Video Game Industries. (Eds.) Sotamaa, O. and Švelch, J., Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789463725439

Hutchinson, J. and Aphra Kerr (Guest Editors, 2021) Life (online): An Introduction to the #AoIR20 Special Issue and including 7 papers from the Association for Internet Research Conference 2020, Information, Communication and Society. Vol (24) Issue 6. Pg 773-779. Pages 773-779. partial open access https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1909631

Kelleher, J. and Kerr, Aphra (2020) ‘Finding Common Ground for Citizen Empowerment in the Smart City.’ Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics. Guayaquil Archipelago: Epistemological Steps Towards a Real Smart City, Vol 22 (2), pgs. 33-61. http://www2.units.it/etica [creative commons, open access, peer review]

Kerr, Aphra, Barry, M., and Kelleher, J. (2020) Expectations of Artificial Intelligence and the Performativity of Ethics: Implications for Communication Governance. Big Data and Society. Vol 7 (Issue 1). DOI: 10.1177/2053951720915939 [creative commons, open access, peer review]

Kerr, A and Joshua D. Savage (2020) ‘Hacking at the techno-feminist frontier – Gendered exclusion and inclusion in technology cultures.’ In Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: Power, Production and Practice in Contemporary Ireland, Cullen, P. and Corcoran, M. (Eds.) Dublin: UCD Press.

Kerr, A., Musiani, F. and Pohle, J. (2019) Editorial. Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future. Guest editorial for special issue. Internet Policy Review, 8(1). [creative commons, open access, peer review]

Kerr, A. (2019) ‘Game Production Logics at Work: Convergence and Divergence.’ In Deuze, Mark and Prenger, Mirjam (Eds.) Making Media. Production, Practices, and Professions, Amsterdam University Press. Chapter 31. ISBN 9789462988118.

Kerr, A. (2017) Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Digital Games Industry. New York: Routledge

Kerr, A. (2016) ‘Recruitment, Work and Identity in Community Management: Passion, Precarity and Play’ in Webster, J. (Ed), Randle, K. (Ed) (2016) Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market. Palgrave.

O’Keeffe, Linda and Kerr, Aphra. (2015) Reclaiming Public Space: Sound and Mobile Media Use by Teenagers. International Journal of Communication, [S.l.], v. 9, p. 21.

Kerr, A. and J. D. Kelleher (2015) The Recruitment of Passion and Community in the Service of Capital. Community Managers in the Digital Games Industry. Critical Studies in Media Communication 32(3): 177-192. DOI:10.1080/15295036.2015.1045005.

Kerr, A. (2006) The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework/Gameplay. Sage: London.