Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof James Patrick Williams
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Journal Articles
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Selected articles

Williams, J. Patrick, and Jingya Wang. 2024. “How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol cultures.” International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241286532

Williams, J. Patrick. 2024. “Two approaches to the study of music and meaning in everyday life.” Symbolic Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.717

Luu, Vinh Trinh, and J. Patrick Williams. 2024. “How K-pop fans negotiate conventional and subcultural moral frameworks in the construction of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fan identities.” Deviant Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2354892

Ratan, Rabindra, Vivian Chen, Frederik De Grove, Johannes Breuer, Thorsten Quandt, and J. Patrick Williams. 2022. "Gender, Gaming Motivations, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American video game players." IEEE Transactions on Games. https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2021.3116077

Williams, J. Patrick. 2019. “Subculture’s not Dead! Checking the Pulse of Subculture Studies through a Review of ‘Subcultures, Popular Music and Political Change’ and ‘Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives’.” Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research 27(1):89-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308818761271

Williams, J. Patrick, and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir. 2017. “Muslim Girl Culture and Social Control in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Hijabista and Hijabster Phenomena.” Crime, Media, Culture 13(2):199-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659016687346.

Weninger, Csilla, and J. Patrick Williams. 2017. “The Interactional Construction of Social Authenticity: ‘Real’ Identities and Inter-Group Relations in a Transylvania Internet Forum.” Symbolic Interaction 40(2):169-189. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.294

Williams, J. Patrick. 2016. Negotiating Fan Identities in K-pop Music Culture." Studies in Symbolic Interaction 47:81-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620160000047015
Books
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Selected books

Interpreting Subcultures: Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense-Making Practices in Alternative Cultures. (2024) Bristol University Press.

Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity. with Kaylan Schwarz (2020) Routledge.

Subcultural Theory: Traditions and Concepts. (2011) Polity Press.
Book Chapters
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Selected book chapters

Williams, J. Patrick, David Kirschner, and Sebastian Deterding. 2024. “Sociology and Role-Playing Games.” Pp. 243-260 in José P. Zagal and Sebastian Deterding (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298045-15

Williams, J. Patrick. 2024. “Making Sense of Subcultures: Interpretive Practice and/in Subcultural Theory.” Pp. 1-20 in J. Patrick Williams (Ed.) Interpreting Subcultures: Sense-making from Insider and Outsider Perspectives. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Williams, J. Patrick, and Samuel Judah. 2024. “Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Interpretive Practice in Subculture Studies.” Pp. 189-204 in J. Patrick Williams (Ed.) Interpreting Subcultures: Sense-making from Insider and Outsider Perspectives. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Johnson, Mark R., and J. Patrick Williams. 2023. “Bottom-Up and Top-Down Tensions: Comparing the Australian and Singaporean Esports Ecosystems.” Pp. 17-38 in Filippo Gilardi and Paul Martin (eds.) Esports in the Asia-Pacific. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3796-7_2

Williams, J. Patrick, and Samuel Judah. 2023. “Organizing Subcultural Identities on Social Media: Instagram Infrastructures and User Actions.” Pp. 101-118 in Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Eds.) People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/ 10.4324/9781003277750-8

Weninger, Csilla, and J. Patrick Williams. 2022. “Goffman and Sociolinguistics.” Pp. 219-230 in Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Gregory Smith (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/ 10.4324/9781003160861-21

Williams, J. Patrick, and Victoria Puay Ru Chua. 2021. “Conventional Culture, Subcultural Institutions and Subcultural Careers as Backdrops to Identity Work in Singapore's Esports Scene.” Pp. 227-247 in Tyler Dupont and Becky Beal (eds.) Lifestyle Sport and Identity: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429340505-16-21

Liew, Kai Khiun, and J. Patrick Williams. 2021. “Looking Beyond Music: Curating and Narrating Punk Subculture in Singapore.” Pp. 84-100 in Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds.) Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader, vol 2. Bristol, UK: Intellect. https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789383379_4
Conference Papers
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Selected conference proceedings

J. Patrick Williams, and *Vinh Trinh Luu. 2023. “Problems anchoring and verifying identities in an emerging esports ecosystem.” Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association 2023 Conference. http://digra.org:9998/DiGRA_2023_CR_7126.pdf

J. Patrick Williams. 2022. “Subcultural Challenges and Challenging Subculture: On Interpretation and Meaning-Making Outside of the West/Global North.” In Paula Guerra (ed.) Keep It Simple Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges, vol. 5 (pp. 456-463). Porto: University of Porto Press. https://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/19311.pdf

Scott, Michael James, Rory Summerley, Nicolas Besombes, Cornelia Connolly, Joey Gawrysiak, Tzipora Halevi, Seth Jenny, Michael Miljanovic, Melissa Stange, Toni Taipalus, and J. Patrick Williams. 2022. “Foundations for Esports Curricula in Higher Education.” In ITiCSE-WGR '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 27–55). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3502870.3506566