Author

Matthew Spokes

Observed names: Matt Spokes, Spokes, Matthew

Institution: University of Worcester

Observed institutions: York St John University, University of York, University of Worcester

ORCID: 0000-0002-6456-3879

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-6456-3879

OpenAlex ID: A5044973191

Thinking Outside the ‘Murder Box’: Virtual Violence and Pro-social Action in Video Games

2018 · Jack Denham, Matthew Spokes · The British Journal of Criminology · 22

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The right to the virtual city: Rural retreatism in open-world video games

2020 · Jack Denham, Matthew Spokes · New Media & Society · 21

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“You Feel Like You’ve Found a Place Where You Belong”: Symbolic Interactionism and Online Social Video Games in the Age of COVID-19

2024 · Caitlin Veal, Matt Coward-Gibbs, et al. · Games and Culture · 20

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The reification of structural violence in video games

2019 · Jack Denham, Steven Hirschler, et al. · Crime Media Culture An International Journal · 13

“War…war never changes”: exploring explicit and implicit encounters with death in a post-apocalyptic gameworld

2017 · Matthew Spokes · Mortality · 10

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Developing Interactive Elicitation: Social Desirability Bias and Capturing Play

2019 · Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham · The Qualitative Report · 8

Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games

2020 · Matthew Spokes · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · 6

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Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces

2018 · Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, et al. · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · 6

‘I wasn’t me, grieving in my room. I was Spiderman’: gaming, loss and self-care following COVID-19

2024 · Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, et al. · Mortality · 5

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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Procedural Rhetoric and the Military-Entertainment Complex: Two Case Studies from the War on Terror

2019 · Matthew Spokes · Media War & Conflict · 4

Personal, pedagogic play: a dialogic model for video game learning

2023 · Jack Denham, Matthew Spokes, et al. · Pedagogy Culture and Society · 3

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The Influence of Sport Expertise on Response and Cognitive Inhibition

2026 · Jack Brimmell, Naomi Lee, et al. · Perceptual and Motor Skills · 2

Consumption (Number 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester)

2018 · Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, et al. · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · 1

Class and Narrative Accrual: Personal Troubles and Public Issues in Five Vignettes

2017 · Matthew Spokes · Journal of Working-Class Studies · 1

Spatialising Failure in Videogames: A Novel Approach to Agency and Enjoyment

2026 · Spokes, Matthew, Denham, Jack · Research at York St John (York St John University)

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Inhibition and Expertise

2026 · Matthew Spokes, Naomi Lee, et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)

The influence of sport expertise on response and cognitive inhibition

2025 · Jack Brimmell, Naomi Lee, et al. · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)

The influence of sport expertise on response and cognitive inhibition

2024 · Jack Brimmell, Naomi Lee, et al. · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)

‘Death. Carnage. Chaos’: Mortality and Mountaineering On-screen, and on the Roof of the World

2023 · Matthew Spokes · Springer eBooks

Little data: negotiating the ‘new normal’ with idiosyncratic and incomplete datasets

2022 · Jack Denham, Matthew Spokes · International Journal of Social Research Methodology

The Affective and the Virtual