Dr. Nicholas Taylor is Associate Professor of Digital Media at North Carolina State University, USA. He applies critical, feminist and posthumanist perspectives to ethnographies of digital play. His work explores the intersections of subjectivity, communicative practice, technologies, and play across a variety of contexts, from competitive gaming tournaments to LEGO conventions. Dr. Chris Ingraham is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, USA. He performs scholarship that engages rhetorical theory, media studies, and ecological thought to explore the material and affective aspects of cultural politics in everyday life. His first academic book, Gestures of Concern, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIntroduction: Clickable Media in a Plastic WorldNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USA, and Chris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter One: Palpable PixelsKate Maddalena, William Peace University, USAChapter Two: The Aesthetic Work of LEGOEddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USAChapter Three: Band of BuildersJessica Elam, Berklee College of Music, USAChapter Four: Re-assembling GenderSarah Evans, Molloy College, USAChapter Five: Fake Plastic TreesChris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter Six: Purity and the Boundaries of BelongingNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USAList of ContributorsIndex

A minor revolution in digitally material media studies. Which media are fundamentally clickable, digital, modular, interoperable, highly technical, and infused with both cultural imaginaries and critical realities not previously understood? The answer, for Taylor and Ingraham and their five coauthors, is not digital media, at least not conventionally conceived: in this well-conceived and pleasantly cohesive volume, these standout scholars...bring into sharp focus the immersive, even 'palpably pixelated' media environment that is LEGO: the digitally material media worlds of LEGO make us into makers, this volume argues, unearthing in the process a world of conflicted creativity myths, commercial cultures, and legal battles amid its endless minefield for bare feet.

Dr. Nicholas Taylor is Associate Professor of Digital Media at North Carolina State University, USA. He applies critical, feminist and posthumanist perspectives to ethnographies of digital play. His work explores the intersections of subjectivity, communicative practice, technologies, and play across a variety of contexts, from competitive gaming tournaments to LEGO conventions. Dr. Chris Ingraham is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, USA. He performs scholarship that engages rhetorical theory, media studies, and ecological thought to explore the material and affective aspects of cultural politics in everyday life. His first academic book, Gestures of Concern, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIntroduction: Clickable Media in a Plastic WorldNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USA, and Chris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter One: Palpable PixelsKate Maddalena, William Peace University, USAChapter Two: The Aesthetic Work of LEGOEddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USAChapter Three: Band of BuildersJessica Elam, Berklee College of Music, USAChapter Four: Re-assembling GenderSarah Evans, Molloy College, USAChapter Five: Fake Plastic TreesChris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter Six: Purity and the Boundaries of BelongingNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USAList of ContributorsIndex

A minor revolution in digitally material media studies. Which media are fundamentally clickable, digital, modular, interoperable, highly technical, and infused with both cultural imaginaries and critical realities not previously understood? The answer, for Taylor and Ingraham and their five coauthors, is not digital media, at least not conventionally conceived: in this well-conceived and pleasantly cohesive volume, these standout scholars...bring into sharp focus the immersive, even 'palpably pixelated' media environment that is LEGO: the digitally material media worlds of LEGO make us into makers, this volume argues, unearthing in the process a world of conflicted creativity myths, commercial cultures, and legal battles amid its endless minefield for bare feet.

Dr. Nicholas Taylor is Associate Professor of Digital Media at North Carolina State University, USA. He applies critical, feminist and posthumanist perspectives to ethnographies of digital play. His work explores the intersections of subjectivity, communicative practice, technologies, and play across a variety of contexts, from competitive gaming tournaments to LEGO conventions. Dr. Chris Ingraham is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, USA. He performs scholarship that engages rhetorical theory, media studies, and ecological thought to explore the material and affective aspects of cultural politics in everyday life. His first academic book, Gestures of Concern, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIntroduction: Clickable Media in a Plastic WorldNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USA, and Chris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter One: Palpable PixelsKate Maddalena, William Peace University, USAChapter Two: The Aesthetic Work of LEGOEddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USAChapter Three: Band of BuildersJessica Elam, Berklee College of Music, USAChapter Four: Re-assembling GenderSarah Evans, Molloy College, USAChapter Five: Fake Plastic TreesChris Ingraham, University of Utah, USAChapter Six: Purity and the Boundaries of BelongingNick Taylor, North Carolina State University, USAList of ContributorsIndex

A minor revolution in digitally material media studies. Which media are fundamentally clickable, digital, modular, interoperable, highly technical, and infused with both cultural imaginaries and critical realities not previously understood? The answer, for Taylor and Ingraham and their five coauthors, is not digital media, at least not conventionally conceived: in this well-conceived and pleasantly cohesive volume, these standout scholars...bring into sharp focus the immersive, even 'palpably pixelated' media environment that is LEGO: the digitally material media worlds of LEGO make us into makers, this volume argues, unearthing in the process a world of conflicted creativity myths, commercial cultures, and legal battles amid its endless minefield for bare feet.