'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online
(2013)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (42)
Cultural value networks research findings (2012)
Report
An extended report on the methods and findings of the DCRC's AHRC Connected Communities project concerning cultural value networks
Cultural value networks summary report (2012)
Report
A summary of the AHRC Connected Communities project conducted by the DCRC concerning cultural value networks
Pervasive media cookbook (2012)
Other
The Pervasive Media Cookbook is mix of practice, ideas and inspiration, that can be read ‘cover to cover’ or opened at any page. It introduces the emerging field of pervasive media in which context aware devices deliver ‘the right media in the right... Read More about Pervasive media cookbook.
Keeping in touch - final report (2012)
Report
This report outlines findings from the scoping review for the Keeping in Touch project, a collaborative research project involving academics from the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, community partner Knowle... Read More about Keeping in touch - final report.
I-docs special edition (2012)
Journal Article
This special edition presents a collection of articles that came out of i-Docs 2011, the first international symposium exclusively devoted to the rapidly evolving field of international documentary-making. The symposium was held at the Watershed Medi... Read More about I-docs special edition.
We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage (2012)
Journal Article
This article is concerned with the social praxis of documentary in the sea of ‘ubiquitous data’ that is both consequence and driver of online social mediation. The topic is given importance by the morphing of the character of video in the context of... Read More about We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage.
Keeping in touch (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
This discussion paper summarises the key themes from Keeping In Touch, a collaborative research project for Connected Communities.
Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This conference was funded by the European Science Foundation and took place in September 6-9, 2010 in Linkoping, Sweden. It was co-convened by Jonathan Dovey and Patrick Crogan of UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre. Keynote speakers were Bernard... Read More about Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility.
Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies (2009)
Book Chapter
This chapter offers an analysis of the relationships between media practice-as-research and the screen media industries. It draws upon my own experience in the UK as a producer and academic teaching screen media. In 2006, I founded ScreenWork, the fi... Read More about Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies.
New Media - A Critical Introduction (2009)
Book
This is a Second Edition of a book first co authored for 2003. The book offers students conceptual frameworks for thinking through a range of key issues which have arisen over two decades of speculation on the cultural implications of new media .
Straw men or cyborgs? (2009)
Journal Article
This paper responds to calls in the last two years for a Media Studies 2.0 that would reformulate the discipline to take account of the radical changes in Media practices brought about by digital technologies and their cultures. Whilst agreeing on th... Read More about Straw men or cyborgs?.
Simulating the public sphere (2008)
Book Chapter
In this chapter I argue that formatted reality television game shows like Big Brother (Channel 4 2000 - ) and popular TV documentary formats like Wife Swap (Channel Four 2002 -) and Faking It (Channel Four 1999 -) might be best understood as simula... Read More about Simulating the public sphere.
Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
Journal Article
The changes in traditional patterns of media production and consumption brought about by digital technologies in their networked form pose challenges to both practitioners and theorists. As the practices of mass media dissolve into the processes of t... Read More about Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies.
Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people's individual relation to technics as much as understanding class, r... Read More about Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content.
Technicity: power and difference in game cultures (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people’s individual relation to technics as much as understanding geograph... Read More about Technicity: power and difference in game cultures.
Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games (2006)
Book Chapter
This chapter, fully collaborative from inception to completion, was conceived as way of interrogating the critical aporia in current game studies around understanding gameplay pleasures and engagements. This was the first piece of published research... Read More about Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games.
Games culture: Computer games as new media (2006)
Book
New Media: A Critical Introduction (2003)
Book
How do you play? Identity technology and Ludic culture
Preprint / Working Paper
A very broad ranging paper based on research undertaken for the Dovey & Kennedy book 'Game Cultures' (2006; McGraw Hill). It is quite a good background resource for thinking about cultures and theories of play in technoculture.