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Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative (2008)
Journal Article
Aston, J. (2008). Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative. Journal of Media Practice, 9(1), 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.1.43_1

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.

Could do better? Students' critique of written feedback (2008)
Journal Article
Brooks, K. (2008). Could do better? Students' critique of written feedback. Networks, 5,

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
Dovey, J. (2008). Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies. Journal of Media Practice, 9(3), 243-256. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.3.243/1

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
Henning, M. (2008). A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity

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
Hornsey, R. (2008). The queer (spatial) economies of The Lavender Hill Mob. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(1), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000058

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.

Change and continuity in the ‘information age' (2008)
Journal Article
Lee, S., & Salter, L. (2008). Change and continuity in the ‘information age'. Global Media and Communication, 4(1), 81-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766507086854

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
Salter, L. (2008). The goods of community? The potential of journalism as a social practice. Philosophy of Management, 7(1), 33-44

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.

'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London (2008)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2008). 'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London. Journal of Historical Geography, 34(1), 94-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2006.12.003

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.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2007). Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra. Convergence, 13(4), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507082204

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.

Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton (2007)
Journal Article
Henning, M. (2007). Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton. Victorian Literature and Culture, 35(2), 663-678. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150307051704

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.

Democracy and online news: Indymedia and the limits of participatory media (2006)
Journal Article
Salter, L. (2006). Democracy and online news: Indymedia and the limits of participatory media

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.

Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games (2006)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. W., & Giddings, S. (2006). Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games

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.