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The eagle document (2007)
Exhibition / Performance
Oechsler, M. The eagle document. 2007 - 2008. (Unpublished)

Both the live performance and multi-screen installation were part practice based PhD research and were exhibited as solo shows at the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, Farnham during 2007 and 2008.

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.

Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Bacon, T., & Brooks, K. (2007, October). Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go. Paper presented at 'Ageing Femininities: Representation, Identities, Feminism' Intenational Conference, UWE St Matthias campus

Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Dovey, J. (2007, September). Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content. Paper presented at Transforming Audiences, Westminster University, London

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
Kennedy, H. W., & Dovey, J. (2007, June). Technicity: power and difference in game cultures. Presented at Keynote: GameInAction, Goteborg, Sweden

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.

Sensitive coverage saves lives (2007)
Report
Jempson, M., & Cookson, R. (2007). Sensitive coverage saves lives

Mike Jempson, director of MediaWise was commissioned to undertake this research by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE). The study is part of the Shift programme to reduce st... Read More about Sensitive coverage saves lives.

Unfinished Business (2007)
Digital Artefact
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2007). Unfinished Business

In 2007 I Directed this film for Firstborn Creatives, for BBC1 (West). It explores how the city of Bristol has dealt with coming to terms with its historical links with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, in the year of the bicentenary of the passing of... Read More about Unfinished Business.

Barbados to Bath (2007)
Digital Artefact
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2007). Barbados to Bath

30 minute documentary exploring the story of how the city of Bath came to be home to one of the oldest Caribbean steel band orchestras in the UK.

It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust (2007)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2007). It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust. In V. Bakir, & D. Barlow (Eds.), Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media (167-176). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Oprah Winfrey is a very popular figure in contemporary American culture. Often described as 'authentic', the chapter explores the ways in which Winfrey deploys confessional practices on her TV talk show as a means to engender trust.

Making it work: An enquiry into how companies in the community media sector recruit and retain skilled freelancers (2007)
Report
Bissett Johnson, E. (2007). Making it work: An enquiry into how companies in the community media sector recruit and retain skilled freelancers

This report is a timely and original development in the analysis of social interest creative practice. It takes the debate much further than merely exploring the merits of such projects, and directly provides an analysis of the economic and skills ba... Read More about Making it work: An enquiry into how companies in the community media sector recruit and retain skilled freelancers.

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.

New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change (2007)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2007). New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change. In C. R. Acland (Ed.), Residual Media (48-65). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

This essay was commissioned by Charles Acland following an abstract submitted in response to his call for papers. It comprises a development of previous work on media as preservation technologies, presented in conference papers in 2000 (The Social Co... Read More about New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change.

Otto Neurath (2007)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2007). Otto Neurath. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x

This is a 1000 word biography of Otto Neurath, looking at his contribution to sociology and contrasting older critiques of his work, which severely affected his reputation, with the concepts and ideas that have emerged in recent accounts.

Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form (2007)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2007). Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form. In S. de Castell, & J. Jenson (Eds.), Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research. New York: Peter Lang

Game studies has yet to engage with a sustained debate on the implications of its fundamentally technologically based foundation – i.e. the ‘digitality’ of digital games. This essay calls for such a debate and offers some initial thoughts on issues a... Read More about Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form.