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 Articles in Refereed Journals

• Gekker, A and Joseph, D. 2021. Selling Elysium: The Political Economy of Radical Game Distribution. Baltic Screen Media Review 9 (1): 20–31. SOI: 10.2478/bsmr-2021-0003
• Bernevega, A and Gekker A. 2021. The Industry of Landlords: Exploring the Assetization of the Triple-A Game. Games and Culture. SAGE Publications: 15554120211014152. DOI: 10.1177/15554120211014151.
• Vijaj, D and Gekker A.. 2021. Playing politics: How Sabarimala played out on TikTok. American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue on Social Platform Accountability in Global Perspectives.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764221989769
• Gekker, A. 2021. Against Game Studies. Media and Communication 9(1) https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3315 
• Knight, E and Gekker, A. 2020. Mapping interfacial regimes of control: Palantir’s ICM in America’s post-9/11 security technology infrastructures. Surveillance & Society 18 (2): 231-243
• Gekker, A and Hind, S. 2019. Infrastructural surveillance. New Media and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819879426
• Gekker, A. 2018. Let’s not play: Interpassivity as resistance in ‘Let’s Play’ videos.  Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 10 (3): 219–42. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.10.3.219_1.
• Gekker, A. 2016. Casual power: Understanding user interfaces through quantification. Digital Culture & Society “Quantified Selves | Statistic Bodies” 2 (1): 107-121.
• Hind, S. and Gekker, A. 2014. 'Outsmarting traffic, together': Driving as social navigation. Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal,. 1(2): 165-180. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v1i2.84

Edited Volumes

• Perkins, S., Lammes, S., Gekker, A., Hind, S., C. Wilmott and D. Evans (Eds). 2018. Cartographic temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping. Manchester: Manchester University Press.  https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=650132 [citations: 11]
• Playful Mapping Collective. (2016). Playful mapping in the digital age. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/playful-mapping-in-the-digital-age/

Chapters in Edited Books

• Hind, S. and Gekker, A. 2019. On autopilot: Towards a flat ontology of vehicular navigation. In: Media’s Mapping Impulse. Chris Lukinbeal and Elisabeth Sommerald (Eds.): 141-160. Meinz: MGM
• Gekker, A. 2018. Playing with power: Casual politicking as a new frame for political analysis. In: The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, Rene Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens and Imar de Vries (Eds.): 387-419. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462984523/ch20
• Gekker, A. (2012). Legionnaires of chaos: “Anonymous” and governmental oversight of the internet. In D. Helder & A. L. Massanari (Eds.), Digital Ethics,  pp. 178–192. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Gekker, A., & Hind, S. (2020). RE-VALUING PLATFORMS, RECLAIMING THE LOCAL. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11119
• Mniestri, A., & Gekker, A. (2020). TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF BREADTUBE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11281