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Drawing on Topolski : An exploration of the relationship between reportage drawing and documentary filmmaking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I am in the process of making a short documentary film called “Drawing on Topolski”, which follows the story of a residency programme for young illustrators that has been inspired by the memory of the renowned Polish emigre artist Feliks Topolski. Th... Read More about Drawing on Topolski : An exploration of the relationship between reportage drawing and documentary filmmaking.

Films and psychiatry (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Guest speaker and workshop leader on understanding mental health through film. Showed a selection of films and some of my own work that deals with mental health issues.

'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders' (2014)
Journal Article

This contribution is aimed at discussing different current policies of convergence as well as questioning whether these exploit the opportunities of digital media to their full potential, especially with regard to transmedia storytelling, interactivi... Read More about 'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders'.

Social media, editorial codes and widening participation in domestic news coverage (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Drawing on Topolski: Reflecting on interdisciplinary practice as research (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I am in the middle of the offline edit of a short documentary film,“Drawing on Topolski”, which will follow the story of a reportage drawing project inspired by the legacy of the Polish émigré artist Feliks Topoloski. This paper will trace the evolut... Read More about Drawing on Topolski: Reflecting on interdisciplinary practice as research.

Art spaces, art places: Examining neighborhood preferences of New York arts organizations (2014)
Report

This report builds on and extends a diverse literature that examines the location patterns of the arts and creative industries through analysis of a database of arts nonprofit organizations from the New York State Cultural Data Project. We confirm th... Read More about Art spaces, art places: Examining neighborhood preferences of New York arts organizations.

Photography that revisits: Participatory influences in post-colonial, auto-ethnographic visual anthropology practices (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

My current creative practice – of a photographic discourse which revisits and moves closer into the subject after the shutter has been pressed - brings together three distinct but (for me) related areas in my educational background; BA in film & phot... Read More about Photography that revisits: Participatory influences in post-colonial, auto-ethnographic visual anthropology practices.

The bold agency of making something out of nothing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From slave trade tours, music videos, activist documentary and independent journalism, Bristol has a vibrant tradition of DIY culture which links creativity to civic engagement and personal and social impacts. This talk draws on a range of examples... Read More about The bold agency of making something out of nothing.

Representation of slave trade legacy in the popular culture of Bristol (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk I highlight how different people in the city of Bristol have responded to and made things in relation to the city's slave trade history. From a slavery tour, art works, animation and exhibitions, over the years Bristol citizens have soug... Read More about Representation of slave trade legacy in the popular culture of Bristol.

Cinema and the creation of collective memories (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, I link the concept of memory as a visual, mutable process with how we create collective memories. My area of research is narrative film, so here I concentrate on the role of the filmmaker as a key voice in describing the shared memor... Read More about Cinema and the creation of collective memories.

Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation (2014)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I take the book’s title at face value and examine emergent documentary practices within the ecosystems of the digital media landscape. Thinking ecologically suggests we look at big pictures, at the whole assemblage of agents that cons... Read More about Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation.

Journalist, citizen and learner?—A consideration of context in learning mobile journalism through mobile learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

South Blessed is a community media operation based in Bristol, specialising in Hip Hop music videos, activist documentary, and live topical debates streamed online. The editorial ethos of South Blessed is one of promotion of talent and opinion from... Read More about Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises.

More accountability in the digital age? The influence of new technologies (2014)
Book Chapter

Analysis and commentary on survey of journalists attitudes towards online accountability and transparency across 14 European and Arab countries, conducted as part of the MediaAct project

Democratic Accountability and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of South Hampshire, UK (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited. This paper examines the notion of democratic accountability through an investigation of metropolitan governance in South Hampshire, UK. The author employs an interpretive approach to trace varying readings of dem... Read More about Democratic Accountability and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of South Hampshire, UK.

Thinking through non-representational and affective atmospheres in planning theory and practice (2014)
Journal Article

This article engages with recent debates surrounding non-representational theory and the affective turn in the social sciences, arguing that such thinking offers a particularly useful set of concepts for the discipline of planning. This includes a wi... Read More about Thinking through non-representational and affective atmospheres in planning theory and practice.

Interactive documentary (2014)
Book Chapter

Interactive documentary is a term used to describe the new possibilities for both the construction and representation of reality brought about by the human–computer interface. For a documentary to be interactive in this context, a physical action nee... Read More about Interactive documentary.

Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars (2013)
Book Chapter

Following Simone de Beauvoir (1972) and Germaine Greer who similarly lamented the cultural invisibility of older women, the current proliferation of Hollywood films with older women protagonists, and the increased visibility of older female stars mig... Read More about Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars.

Multimedia theatre before the digital age (2013)
Journal Article

In this article I intend to provide a short overview of the historically rich interrelationship between theatre and multimedia, up to the present time where a set of similar practical and theoretical questions has reappeared following the influence o... Read More about Multimedia theatre before the digital age.