All Outputs (323)

Television talk shows (2009)
Journal Article

An article written on the history of TV talk shows for Videoactive, a project funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. This is an EU funded project that aims to create access to television archives across Europe in order... Read More about Television talk shows.

Time and resolution: Experiments in high-definition image making (2009)
Journal Article

High-definition (HD) technology is powering a paradigm change within the digital domain. This article is an attempt to reveal and explore the aesthetics, the technologies and theoretical issues that are at stake through the embracing of this new medi... Read More about Time and resolution: Experiments in high-definition image making.

Made to measure online (2009)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman looks at how artists can use the internet to create and distribute their books and converse with other artists worldwide.

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.

Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin (2008)
Journal Article

Potvin's book was a study of how male homosociality in late-nineteenth century British design cultures produced new dynamics of vision and touching, which became medicated through workshop practice and specific artefacts.

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.

DVD review: Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet (2008)
Journal Article

A review of the DVD release of Rene Laloux’s SF animated feature. Considers the nature of animation as a distinct cinematic form.

Book review: Hafez, K. The myth of media globalization (2008)
Journal Article

This is a book review of a book about globalization in relation to media.

Could do better? Students' critique of written feedback (2008)
Journal Article

This feature starts with the observation that current research into university assessment feedback has a tendency to conclude that students want ‘more feedback’ but in general, don’t know what to do with it. Likewise, related research notes the misma... Read More about Could do better? Students' critique of written feedback.

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.

A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2008)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London (2008)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Change and continuity in the ‘information age' (2008)
Journal Article

This review article looks at three books about continuity and change in the so-called “information age”. Following Dan Schiller’s work, it concurs that consideration of the “information age” must be grounded in a historical-materialist understanding... Read More about Change and continuity in the ‘information age'.

The goods of community? The potential of journalism as a social practice (2008)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

The pig in the bath: New materialisms and cultural studies (2007)
Journal Article