Outputs (50)

"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b... Read More about "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008.

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

From PressWise to MediaWise: promoting journalism ethics in the UK (2008)
Book Chapter

Lafrance’s Story: Inside Out (2008)
Digital Artefact

Short documentary for BBC 1's 'Inside Out' magazine programme, exploring the story of Lafrance Gordon, and how he has overcome suffering from a stroke by challenging himself to physical tests. This film charts his climbing of the highest peak in Sout... Read More about Lafrance’s Story: Inside Out.

Visibility/ invisibility (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Through a focus on visibility/invisibility, the workshop established networking links, tracked changes patterns of representation and established shared intellectual terrain in areas of inclusion and exclusion, between scholars working on the prolife... Read More about Visibility/ invisibility.

Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath was a prolific writer or books, journal articles and letters and invented an international picture language known as Isotype. This paper looks in detail at the relationship between this pictu... Read More about Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype.

Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2005 Bruno Latour and Peter Wiebel used Isotype charts to conclude their exhibition Making Things Public at the ZKM Centre in Karlsruhe. They contrasted Isotype to their own vision of things as assemblages, disputed states of affairs, and actants.... Read More about Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype.

When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper addressed the power relations between journalists and subaltern voices, e.g. asylum seekers, on British television news based on discourse analytical approach to television news coverage.

Scelidosaurua skull (2008)
Physical Artefact

Production of a life size, articulated Scelidosaurus skull based on recent fossil evidence.