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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.

Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an on... Read More about Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective.

The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When British spaces, rural and otherwise, are full of celebrated and re-told myths and legends – from sites such as Stonehenge through to character based fables such as Robin Hood – why do some resist to allow true stories, which are no less fantasti... Read More about The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence.

Making films in Somerset (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A talk to young filmmakers about my work as a filmmaker, growing up in Somerset and how to get films made. Tips and contacts given to encourage young filmmakers to apply for BFI funding schemes and film academies in Bristol and Somerset. Also screene... Read More about Making films in Somerset.

Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

British culture is full of legend and folklore, yet true stories about the Black presence in pre-20th century UK, which on the surface are even more fantastical than fiction, struggles to find a place in the historical British narrative. The functi... Read More about Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts.

Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘Walking Interconnections’ is the name of a collaborative research project. As the name suggests, the project’s focus is on the ways in which walking, as an activity, can prompt the sharing of experiences between people. The interconnections we expl... Read More about Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society.

Drawing without light (2013)
Book Chapter

Numerous videogames offer their players opportunities for the production and collection of images displayed and understood as photographs. For some the production of photograph-like images is central to the gameplay, for others it is an add-on activi... Read More about Drawing without light.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter describes the Isotype method of pictorial statistics, invented in 1920s Vienna by the Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath, and compares it to Neurath’s own signature drawings of a cartoon elephant. Isotype was among th... Read More about Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath.

Directing CyberTheatre (2013)
Book

In a series of essays assembled under the heading 'Directing Cyber Theatre', Salihbegovic is offering his understanding about several technical and aesthetic aspects of the contemporary digital performance and 'cyber theatre' as vast, versatile, and... Read More about Directing CyberTheatre.

An exploration of job demands, job control, stress, and attitudes in public, nonprofit, and for-profit employees (2013)
Journal Article

© 2013 SAGE Publications. Drawing on the Job Demands-Control-Support model, we argue that job demands, job control, social support, stress, and employee attitudes differ by ownership sector. Using Random Coefficient/ Hierarchical Linear Modeling, we... Read More about An exploration of job demands, job control, stress, and attitudes in public, nonprofit, and for-profit employees.

Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I offer here this short commentary on a section from Technics and Time 2’s final chapter, ‘Temporal Object and Retentional Finitude’ in which Stiegler engages in a lengthy meditation on Husserl’s account of primary and secondary retention—a meditatio... Read More about Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience.