John Banks

Biographic Data

ID3707549
NAMEJohn Banks
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEBanks
SIGNATUREBANKS J
AFFILIATIONSQueensland University of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-3478-5806
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS162
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX8

  • Creative destruction in the Australian videogames industry

    Open AccessJohn Banks, Stuart CunninghamARTICLEMedia International Australia2016Cited by: 3References: 7

    The Australian games industry is a textbook case in creative destruction. Australian developers have adaptively engaged with the rapidly transforming and uncertain conditions of the global videogames industry. Some developers celebrate the creative freedom they experienced with a shift towards original intellectual property games for mobile platforms, while others caution about the design and craft compromises associated with the in-app monetisat…

  • On the Power of Machines

    John BanksBOOKOn the Power of Machines2015

  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    John Hartley, Jason Potts et al.BOOKKey Concepts in Creative Industries2013

    Creativity is an attribute of individual people, but also a feature of organizations like firms, cultural institutions and social networks. In the knowledge economy of today, creativity is of increasing value, for developing, emergent and advanced countries, and for competing cities. This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team…

  • Co-creating Videogames

    Open AccessJohn Banks, John E BanksBOOKCo-creating Videogames2013

    Co-creativity has become a significant cultural and economic phenomenon. Media consumers have become media producers. This book offers a rich description and analysis of the emerging participatory, co-creative relationships within the videogames industry. Banks discusses the challenges of incorporating these co-creative relationships into the development process. Drawing on a decade of research within the industry, the book gives us valuable insi…

  • The Penobscot River, Maine, USA: A Basin-Scale Approach to Balancing Power Generation and Ecosystem Restoration

    Open AccessJeffrey J Opperman, Joshua Royte et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2011Cited by: 1

    Opperman, J. J., J. Royte, J. Banks, L. R. Day, and C. Apse. 2011. The Penobscot River, Maine, USA: a basin-scale approach to balancing power generation and ecosystem restoration. Ecology and Society 16(3): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04117-160307

  • Co-creating games: A co-evolutionary analysis

    Open AccessJohn Banks, Jason PottsARTICLENew Media & Society2010Cited by: 12References: 8

    The phenomenon of consumer co-creation is often framed in terms of whether either economic market forces or socio-cultural non-market forces ultimately dominate. We propose an alternate model of consumer co-creation in terms of co-evolution between markets and non-markets. Our model is based on a recent ethnographic study of a massively multiplayer online game through its development, release and ultimate failure, and is cast in terms of two expl…

  • Co-creative labour

    Open AccessJohn Banks, Mark DeuzeARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2009Cited by: 36References: 8

    This article introduces a special issue on the topic of cocreative labour. The term co-creation is used to describe the phenomenon of consumers increasingly participating in the process of making and circulating media content and experiences. Practices of user-created content and user-led innovation are now significant sources of both economic and cultural value. But how should we understand and analyse these value-generating activities? What are…

  • Co-Creative Expertise: Auran Games and Fury - A Case Study

    Open AccessJohn BanksARTICLEMedia International Australia2009Cited by: 4References: 13

    This article discusses the ways in which the relations among professional and non-professional participants in co-creative relations are being reconfigured as part of the shift from a closed industrial paradigm of expertise towards open and distributed expertise networks. This article draws on ethnographic consultancy research undertaken throughout 2007 with Auran Games, a Brisbane, Australia-based games developer, to explore the co-creative rela…

  • The Labour of User Co-Creators: Emergent Social Network Markets?

    Open AccessJohn Banks, Sal HumphreysARTICLEConvergence The International…2008

    Co-creative relations among professional media producers and consumers indicate a profound shift in which our frameworks and categories of analysis (such as the traditional labour theory of value) that worked well in the context of an industrial media economy are perhaps less helpful than before. Can this phenomenon just be explained as the exploitative extraction of surplus value from the work of users, or is something else, potentially more pro…

  • Cultural Economy: The Shape of the Field

    Stuart Cunningham, John Banks et al.CHAPTERThe Cultural Economy2008

    The Cultural Economy analyses the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture. It brings together perspectives from different disciplines to examine such critical issues as: - the production of cultural goods and services and the patterns of economic globalization; - the relationship between the commodification of the cultural economy and the aesthetic realm; - cur…

  • The Uses of Multimedia: Three Digital Literacy Case Studies

    Open AccessJohn Hartley, Kelly Mcwilliam et al.ARTICLEMedia International Australia2008Cited by: 1References: 8

    We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a 'demand-led' model of education in digital literacy. We go on to analyse three case studies - digital storytelling, the Flickr photosharing site and the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Fury - to discuss issues arising from demand-led learning, which requires a procedural (not propo…

  • Fan-Based Production for Computer Games: User-Led Innovation, the 'Drift of Value' and Intellectual Property Rights

    Open AccessSal Humphrey, Sal Humphreys et al.ARTICLEMedia International Australia2005Cited by: 2References: 4

    Fan-based or third party content creation has assumed an integral place in the multi-million dollar computer games industry. The emerging production ecology that involves new kinds of distributed organisations and ad hoc networks epitomises the 'drift of value' from producer to consumer and allows us to understand how user-led innovation influences the creative industries. But the ability to control intellectual property rights in content product…

  • Gallery Artworks

    Michael Trott, Casey Reas et al.ARTICLELeonardo2000

  • The single European market and its implications for educational and vocational guidance services

    Open AccessJohn Banks, J A G Banks et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…1990

  • An Effective Demand Conception of History

    J A Banks, John BanksARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1989

    Since the beginning of the nineteenth century the interpretation of economic events by historians and sociologists has been dominated by the rival, materialist conceptions of history, the Malthusian and the Marxian. Neither of these provides a satisfactory explanation of the historically remarkable, demographic revolution of the past 200 years, and its precursor, the agricultural revolution. When, however, the Malthusian emphasis on demand is com…

  • From Universal History to Historical Sociology

    J A Banks, John BanksARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1989Cited by: 4

  • Back to Bradbury Lodge

    Open AccessJohn Banks, J R BANKSARTICLECritical Quarterly1985

  • New paperback fiction

    Open AccessJohn Banks, J R BANKSARTICLECritical Quarterly1983

  • Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families

    William Petersen, J A Banks et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1983

  • Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families

    John Mogey, J A Banks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1982

  • An Alternative Sociology

    J A Banks, John Banks et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1981

  • Reconstructing Historical Communities

    J A Banks, John Banks et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1979Cited by: 1

  • Sociological Theories, Methods, and Research Techniques-A Personal Viewpoint

    Open AccessJ A Banks, John BanksARTICLEThe Sociological Review1979

  • Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England

    J A Banks, John Banks et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1978

  • A Comment on Rosemary Crompton's 'Approaches to the Study of White-Collar Unionism

    Open AccessJ A Banks, John BanksARTICLESociology1978