Dr Nic Crowe
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Summary
Dr Nic Crowe is programme lead for the BA Education. He is a qualified Teacher, Youth and Community Worker and Play Worker. He is an experienced Practitioner with a background in art, technology and cultural studies. His main research focuses on Digital Stories – currently Pro-Ana Communities and Lolicon – and Comics, Anime and Manga. His PhD thesis was a five year ethnographic study of an on-line world entitled ‘Hanging with the Catherby Shark Gurlz’ and other Runescape stories’. It focused on young people’s use of the internet for gaming, and looked particularly at virtual identities, virtual communities and their culture(s). He has made a number Media appearances talking about on-line gaming and its associated culture, including a presentation of his Runescape research for Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’.
Responsibility
BA Programme Lead
Newest selected publications
Hoskins, K., Genova, C. and Crowe, N. (2022) 'Digital Youth Subcultures Performing 'transgressive' Identities in Digital Social Spaces'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-003-12968-4 ISSN 13: 978-0-367-65470-2 Open Access Link
Crowe, N. (2022) '‘Porking Pippi Longstocking’ and other Erotic Stories: Illicit Bodies in the Classroom', in Hoskins, K., Genova, C. and Crowe, N. (eds.) Digital Youth Subcultures. Performing ‘transgressive’ identities in Digital Social Spaces. London : Routledge. pp. 140 - 159. ISBN 13: 978-0-367-67215-7.
Crowe, N. and Waite, G. (2020) 'More than a single (digital) story: Restorative Practice in a Climate of Digital Transgression'. MIOE Journal of Education, 10 (1). pp. 5 - 17. ISSN: 1026-2202 Open Access Link
Crowe, N. and Hoskins, K. (2019) 'Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography'. Societies, 9 (3). pp. 53 - 53. ISSN: 2075-4698 Open Access Link
Watts, DM., Crowe, N. and Waite, G. (2018) 'Tales of the Transgressive Body - more than a single story: DST in a climate of transgression'.Digital Storytelling Conference. Zakynthos, Greece.Open Access Link