Tom Chatfield

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Chatfield in 2015
Born1980
OccupationAuthor
Alma mater St John's College, Oxford University
Period21st century
Genres Non-fiction; fiction
Subject Digital culture
Years active2010 onwards
Notable worksFun Inc (2010); This Is Gomorrah (2019)
Notable awardsPrix Douglas Kennedy (2020) [1]
Website
tomchatfield.net

Dr Tom Chatfield (born 1980) is a British author, broadcaster, and tech philosopher. [2] Chatfield has written books on digital culture. [3] He is also a public speaker on the subject area. [4] Chatfield was appointed Chair of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) in 2023. [5]

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Biography

Chatfield took his BA, MPhil and doctorate degrees and taught at St John's College, Oxford, before beginning work as a writer and editor.[ citation needed ]

Chatfield's first book, on the culture of video games, Fun Inc, was published in 2010. Further books explored digital culture. He is an associate editor at Prospect magazine, [6] Fellow at The School of Life [7] and past guest faculty member at the Said Business School, Oxford, [8] as well as a columnist for the BBC. [9] During 2017, he was a Visiting Associated at the Oxford Internet Institute. [10]

Chatfield is a speaker and consultant on technology and new media. [11] For example, he spoke at TED Global 2010 on "7 ways games reward the brain", [12] was lead content designer and writer on Preloaded's game The End, [13] and appears regularly in the British and international media as a commentator. His work is published in over two dozen languages.[ citation needed ]

Italian think tank LSDP named him among its 100 top global thinkers for his work. [14]

Books

Chatfield has written a number of books: [15]

References

  1. Bienvenue à Gomorrhe - Prix Douglas Kennedy 2020 du meilleur thriller étranger. 15 October 2020. ASIN   2755643579.
  2. "Tom Chatfield". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  3. "Tom Chatfield: Author, tech philosopher and broadcaster". SAGE Publishing . Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  4. "Tom Chatfield: Gaming theorist". TED . Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  5. "ALCS appoints author and technology expert Tom Chatfield as new Chair". UK: Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  6. Contributor page at Prospect magazine [ dead link ]
  7. Profile at The School of Life [ dead link ]
  8. Executive education faculty page at the Said Business School, Oxford [ dead link ]
  9. BBC Life: Connected column
  10. "Dr Tom Chatfield: Former Visiting Associate". UK: Oxford Internet Institute . Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  11. "Fun Inc: Tom Chatfield: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business". Talks at Google. YouTube. 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  12. TED Global 2010 talk on "7 ways games reward the brain" [ dead link ]
  13. The End game details at Preloaded [ dead link ]
  14. LSDP: the top 100 global thinkers of 2010 [ dead link ]
  15. "Tom Chatfield". Amazon.co.uk . Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  16. "This Is Gomorrah". Hodder & Stoughton. 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  17. What does AI mean for authors?, Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, 2023
  18. Poole, Steven (13 March 2010). "Fun Inc: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield". The Guardian .
  19. Alderman, Naomi (17 January 2010). "Fun Inc: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield". The Observer .