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Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media (2017)
Book

This book demonstrates that, far from the rational, information-driven account of digital media that is often presumed to be a primary determinant of social media usage, particularly by those in the journalism industry and other industries concerned... Read More about Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media.

The Separate System (2017)
Exhibition / Performance

The Separate System was produced by veterans through workshops at HMP Liverpool and HMP Altcourse with artist Katie Davies. Taking the form of a single channel cinematic film, the piece investigates the distinct, yet interconnected, spaces of the mil... Read More about The Separate System.

Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression (2017)
Book Chapter

Social media have been shown to have the potential to broaden the scope of public communication and public sphere processes. In repressive societies or contexts, they can function as an alternative public sphere challenging the mainstream; but it als... Read More about Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression.

Providing students with real experience while maintaining a safe place to make mistakes (2017)
Journal Article

A news day is a hybrid of simulation and experiential learning where students become practising journalists in a learning environment in order to learn the trade. The days are undertaken on 58 journalism courses in the UK accredited by the Broadcast... Read More about Providing students with real experience while maintaining a safe place to make mistakes.

Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I address the co-creative dimension of two interactive documentary projects – Question Bridge and Quipu. I examine the cultural precursors and contexts that inspired their divergent co-creative approaches. I consider how the producers... Read More about Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism.

Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction (2017)
Book Chapter

In 2015, I gave a keynote lecture on ‘Interactive Documentary and Live Performance’ (Aston 2015), a subject which has received little attention to date within the field of interactive documentary practice. My argument was that the sense of time, plac... Read More about Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction.

i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary (2017)
Book

The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice withi... Read More about i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary.

Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I want to mark a moment in the evolving story of the interactive documentary and to look at its developmental trajectory to date. I want to think about how we would establish a timeline for the development of the i-doc and further, ho... Read More about Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry.

Becoming independent: Distribution after the multiplex (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides an overall understanding of how online distribution has impacted on directing for independent films. It seeks to offer insights into the opportunities for directors to find distribution online, analysing new strategies that can... Read More about Becoming independent: Distribution after the multiplex.

Drones and Journalism: How the Media is Making Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2017)
Book

Open justice? You have to find the court first... (2017)
Journal Article

Five corners of reggae music, and the house where Rastafari lived (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation began with a personal exploration of what reggae music means to me, from the perspective of five areas of life - Cultural/ Educational, Spiritual, Political, Entrepreneurial/ Resourcefulness, and Social. It then goes on to discuss... Read More about Five corners of reggae music, and the house where Rastafari lived.

Ethiopian stories in an English landscape (2017)
Book Chapter

Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with an established narrative of being built by the Romans, and built upon with architectural splendour by the Georgians in the 1700-1800s. This has resulted in a tourist industry worth an annual average of £414... Read More about Ethiopian stories in an English landscape.

Intergenerational dialogues: A reflection on the role of photography, drawing and material culture in the ritual of Black everyday life (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the dynamics of second generation Black British artists working with the stories of their parent’s generation that came over to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1960s. The research broadens out to discuss other forms of work th... Read More about Intergenerational dialogues: A reflection on the role of photography, drawing and material culture in the ritual of Black everyday life.

Lawless | Story of a Legal Sex Worker by Ellen Pearson | FIRST ACTS (2017)
Digital Artefact

Lawless is a short film about the life and views of a sex worker in Australia where brothels are legal. The filmmaker collaborated with the sex worker through giving her a stills camera to show aspects of her world. Producer and mentor Liz Banks, you... Read More about Lawless | Story of a Legal Sex Worker by Ellen Pearson | FIRST ACTS.

Photographic Dialogues: Moving Stills (2017)
Book

Special issue looking at photographers who shoot moving image, and the relationship between the creative approaches.

We ran the Moving Stills symposium in April 2016, which explored the practices of photographers who also produce moving image work... Read More about Photographic Dialogues: Moving Stills.

Time of evolution in photographic dialogues (2017)
Book Chapter

Article written for the first issue of Photographic Dialogues, a journal produced by Bristol Photography Research Group. This special issue looks at photographers who shoot moving image, and the relationship between the creative approaches. The arti... Read More about Time of evolution in photographic dialogues.

Five corners of reggae music (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A personal exploration of what reggae music means to me, from the perspective of five areas of life - Cultural/ Educational, Spiritual, Political, Entrepreneurial/ Resourcefulness, and Social.

Speech given at the Afrika Eye Film Festival, 12 Novem... Read More about Five corners of reggae music.

At the edge of the curatorial gaze: A critical reflection of a photographic exploration of museum storage spaces (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will draw on my ongoing photographic study of museum backstage spaces, and discuss the representational characteristics of what happens when objects are ‘performative’ and on display, verses when they are ‘resting’ and in storage. Material... Read More about At the edge of the curatorial gaze: A critical reflection of a photographic exploration of museum storage spaces.

A review of the Malaysian film industry: Towards better film workflow (2016)
Thesis

Abstract
This thesis investigates the existing film workflow processes in Malaysia and aims to explore, review and reflect on the expectations, experiences and preferences and problems experienced by practitioners in the Malaysian film industry. Par... Read More about A review of the Malaysian film industry: Towards better film workflow.