All Outputs (293)

Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
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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.

A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2008)
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This is a 2,500 word book review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s co-written book, Objectivity, Zone Books, New York, 2007. I emphasise how they explain objectivity as a virtue, and use descriptions of scientific practices. I explain their dis... Read More about A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity.

The queer (spatial) economies of The Lavender Hill Mob (2008)
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This essay provides a new reading of the popular Ealing comedy 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (Charles Crichton, 1951) by rethinking its relationship to wider cultural developments in Britain at the time of its release. The immediate post-war period was mar... Read More about The queer (spatial) economies of The Lavender Hill Mob.

The stinking fish of suicide contagion (2008)
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'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London (2008)
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From the middle of the Second World War until the early 1950s, architects, planners and designers in Britain made an unprecedented investment in reforming the built environment as a means to ensure a stable and secure post-war society. This essay con... Read More about 'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London.

Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative (2008)
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This article outlines work in progress in relation to a collaborative project between me as a multimedia designer and Oxford anthropologist, Professor Wendy James. The aim of the collaboration is to explore new possibilities for using digital media t... Read More about Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative.

The goods of community? The potential of journalism as a social practice (2008)
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The paper resulted from a conference on the work of philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre. It considers MacIntyre’s distinctions between institutions and practices in the context of media organisations. It considers journalism as a practice and argues that... Read More about The goods of community? The potential of journalism as a social practice.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
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This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

After the bathhouse, or, in praise of awkwardness (2007)
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The pig in the bath: New materialisms and cultural studies (2007)
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Francis Bacon and the photobooth: Facing the homosexual in post-war Britain (2007)
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Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton (2007)
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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.

Book review: 'Participating in a story: exploring audience cognition' by Pierre Gander (2006)
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Review of Pierre Gander's "Participating in a Story: Exploring Audience Cognition"

Democracy and online news: Indymedia and the limits of participatory media (2006)
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This paper drew on practical experience of participating in 'Indymedia', a 'radical media' project to facilitate 'independent' online 'citizen journalism', and a conference paper delivered to the First European Communication Conference: 50 Years of C... Read More about Democracy and online news: Indymedia and the limits of participatory media.

The media and global ethics (2006)
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Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games (2006)
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The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing multinational and multidisciplinary field. The first UK international conference on computer games in 2001, a UWE event organised by Helen Kennedy and Jon Dovey at the Watershed Medi... Read More about Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games.

Ceramic Points of View: Video Interviews, the Internet and the Interpretation of Museum Objects (2006)
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The communicative structures of journalism and public relations (2005)
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This article seeks to analyze the communication structures of journalism and public relations, using the communication ethics of Jürgen Habermas. The intention is to use this analysis to draw attention to the differences between journalism and public... Read More about The communicative structures of journalism and public relations.

Slander, sentimentality or silence: What children put up with from the media (2005)
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SimAcademy (2005)
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The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing field. This article surveys its global - and local - development, and some of the conceptual issues it raises.