Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
Dr John Banks is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Federation Fellowship program. His research interests focus on user-led innovation and consumer co-creation in participatory culture networks. He has a particular interest in videogames. From 2000-2005 John worked in the videogames industry for Brisbane-based Auran Games (www.auran.com) as an online community manager, focusing on the development of user-led content creation networks within the context of game development projects; he has published widely on research grounded in this industry background. John’s current research continues to work at the interface of game developers and gamers as they negotiate emerging co-creation relations. Throughout 2007 he undertook ethnographic research with Auran Games on social network strategies for their massively multiplayer online game, Fury (http://www.unleashthefury.com).