Blockchain and beyond: Understanding blockchains through prototypes and public engagement

D Murray-Rust, C Elsden, B Nissen, E Tallyn… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This article presents an annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and
communicate the social and societal implications of blockchains, DLTs and smart contracts …

Frictions and flows in Twitch's platform economy: viewer spending, platform features and user behaviours

NJ Jackson, MR Johnson - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we introduce 'capital flow'and 'capital friction'as terms that characterize features
and user behaviours on internet platforms which encourage and discourage spending …

Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020

C Elsden, D Yu, B Piccio, I Helgason… - Performance in a …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Within days of performance venues being forced to close their doors in 2020, the National
Theatre began broadcasting high-quality recordings of the best of London's West End. Few …

The future of money as a design material

C Speed, J Rankin, C Elsden… - Design Research Society …, 2022 - research.ed.ac.uk
For many years the primary representation of value has been money. However complex we
perceive its material, social and symbolic characteristics, money is now undergoing …

[PDF][PDF] DECENTRALISED CREATIVE ECONOMIES AND TRANSACTIONAL CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

C Elsden, C Speed, D Murray-Rust - Professor Christopher Smith …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
While the past decade has seen cuts to public funding to the arts, it has also seen the
development of online technologies which have the potential to reach increasingly diverse …

Designing new financial transactions: theories, case studies, methods, practices and futures

C Elsden, I Gloerich, B Nissen - DRS2022: Bilbao, 2022 - research.hva.nl
Talking about money can be difficult; designing with it, harder still. Though design is
increasingly 'value-centred', this theme-track proposes the need for critical attention to how …