Tegan Pyke
Position
Phd candidate, Digital culture
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Tegan (she/her) is a PhD Research Fellow in digital culture, associated with the , at the . Her research is focused on the field of electronic literature, post-digitality, and the ways the World Wide Web has affected folk storytelling practices. She places a particular emphasis on identifying born-digital, online-first narrative forms and documenting the practices of collaborative writing communities.
Research produced during her fellowship period so far has focused on electronic literature's status as an essentially contested concept and the ways in which mascot horror鈥攁 popular web-first video game genre, exemplified by series such as Five Nights at Freddy鈥檚, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of Banban鈥攁cts as a cultural reflection of contemporary, post-capitalist, platformised creator economies.
Her current research investigates the unique storytelling practices of Sims 2 writing communities from the mid to late 2000s and aims to document the ways a primarily female player base influenced the Let鈥檚 Play entertainment format.
She is also part of the editorial team for , one of the Web's oldest open access journals.
Teaching
DIKULT104: Computing Technology: History, Theory and Practice
DIKULT105: Web Design 1
DIKULT203: Electronic Literature
DIKULT205: Web Design 2.0