Alan Aycock

Office: Golda Meir E-177
Phone: (414) 229-4319
e-mail: aycock@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/~aycock/
Degree: Ph.D., Toronto, 1973

Research Interests:
Web cultures; advertising and visual culture in North America; evangelical/charismatic Christianity; New Age, neoPaganism, and Wicca

Selected Publications:
"Derrida/Fort-da: Deconstructing Play" in Postmodern Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1993)

"Virtual Play: Baudrillard Online" in The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, Vol. 1, No. 7 (1993)

"'Technologies of the Self': Foucault and Internet Discourse" in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1995)

(co-edited with M.C. Duncan & G. Chick) Play & Culture Studies, Volume 1: Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play, Ablex Publishing Co. (1998)

Duncan, M.C., & Aycock, A. (In press). Fitting Images: Advertising, Sport, and Disability. In S. Jackson and D. Andrews' Sport, Culture and Advertising: Identities, Commodities and the Politics of Representation. Greenwood Press (2002)

Duncan, M.C., & Aycock, A. (submitted for review) "To Dignify Invention and Honor Play": The Contradictory Rhetorics of Romantic Play in Haystack.com. Under review for Play & Culture Studies, Volume 5, Ablex Publishing Co. (2003)