Outputs (20)

Barbados to Bath (2007)
Digital Artefact

30 minute documentary exploring the story of how the city of Bath came to be home to one of the oldest Caribbean steel band orchestras in the UK.

It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust (2007)
Book Chapter

Oprah Winfrey is a very popular figure in contemporary American culture. Often described as 'authentic', the chapter explores the ways in which Winfrey deploys confessional practices on her TV talk show as a means to engender trust.

Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form (2007)
Book Chapter

Game studies has yet to engage with a sustained debate on the implications of its fundamentally technologically based foundation – i.e. the ‘digitality’ of digital games. This essay calls for such a debate and offers some initial thoughts on issues a... Read More about Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form.

Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton (2007)
Journal Article

This refereed journal article was commissioned by the editor Barbara Gates following an abstract in response to a call for papers. It draws on talks and writing on taxidermy for the exhibition Nanoq Flat-Out and Bluesome by the artists Mark Wilson an... Read More about Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton.

Otto Neurath (2007)
Book Chapter

This is a 1000 word biography of Otto Neurath, looking at his contribution to sociology and contrasting older critiques of his work, which severely affected his reputation, with the concepts and ideas that have emerged in recent accounts.

New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change (2007)
Book Chapter

This essay was commissioned by Charles Acland following an abstract submitted in response to his call for papers. It comprises a development of previous work on media as preservation technologies, presented in conference papers in 2000 (The Social Co... Read More about New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change.

Engaging places: Participation as the process, medium and subject of making art (2007)
Book Chapter

What kind of student am I?: Transition talk and investment in learning (2007)
Preprint / Working Paper

The transition from ‘fresher’ to graduate has been widely conceptualised as a ‘learning journey’. This paper is an attempt to apply a broadly discursive approach to the study of the transition from school or college to the first year of university t... Read More about What kind of student am I?: Transition talk and investment in learning.

Student feedback project 2007: Report of findings (2007)
Report

The report is based on responses to questionnaires from 166 students in Humanities Languages and Social Sciences and Art Media and Design, a sample of which was then interviewed in further depth. The literature indicates students often find feedback... Read More about Student feedback project 2007: Report of findings.

Making it work: An enquiry into how companies in the community media sector recruit and retain skilled freelancers (2007)
Report

This report is a timely and original development in the analysis of social interest creative practice. It takes the debate much further than merely exploring the merits of such projects, and directly provides an analysis of the economic and skills ba... Read More about Making it work: An enquiry into how companies in the community media sector recruit and retain skilled freelancers.