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Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition (2016)
Journal Article
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2016). Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition

This is the first edition of our new online Journal, the Journal of Applied Social Theory, and it makes sense to launch the journal via a special edition on theorising digital scholarship. After all, the journal is online and fully acce... Read More about Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition.

Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cook, J., Mor, Y., Santos, P., Treasure-Jones, T., Elferink, R., & Kerr, M. (2016, June). Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning. Paper presented at EdMedia 2016, Vancouver, BC, Canada

This paper proposes a methodology which attempts to address the barriers to the development of successful educational design research through a process which identifies gaps in current practices and devises innovations to target them. Educational des... Read More about Using the participatory patterns design (PPD) methodology to co-design groupware: Confer a tool for workplace informal learning.

Bristol and the end of empire: The consequences of the fall of Gascony (2016)
Book Chapter
Fleming, P. (2016). Bristol and the end of empire: The consequences of the fall of Gascony. In P. Crooks, D. Green, & W. M. Ormrod (Eds.), The Plantaganet Empire, 1259–1453 Proceedings of the 2014 Harlaxton Symposium (369-381). Donington: Paul Watkins

A discussion of the economic, social and political consequences to Bristol of the final English loss of Gascony in 1453. The discussion considers the possibility that this event encouraged Bristol-based exploration of the Mediterranean and the Atlant... Read More about Bristol and the end of empire: The consequences of the fall of Gascony.

Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history (2016)
Journal Article
Boccardi, M. (2016). Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 7(2), 204-213. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2016.9

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Morality Play is a historical detective novel set in the late fourteenth century and published in 1995, at a time of flourishing for historical fiction in Britain. This article argues that the novel shares some of the... Read More about Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history.

In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat (2016)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2017). In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(1), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12407

© 2016 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Robert Lovell (1771-1796) is known chiefly as one of the apostles of the ill-fated Pantisocratic emigration scheme conceived by Coleridge and Southey. This essay considers Lovell’s life and work... Read More about In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat.

Hollywood menace: Los Angeles Mid-Century Modern Dens of Vice (2016)
Book Chapter
Solomons, G. (2016). Hollywood menace: Los Angeles Mid-Century Modern Dens of Vice. In E. Clift, M. Guaralda, & A. Mattes (Eds.), Filming the City - Urban Documents, Design Practices And Social Criticism Through The Lens (97-110). Intellect Books

This paper will discuss the use of Los Angeles Mid-Century Modern homes in context of Hollywood films from the 1950s until the present day, with particular focus on the association these houses have with movie villains. A wealth of writing and di... Read More about Hollywood menace: Los Angeles Mid-Century Modern Dens of Vice.

Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf (2016)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2016). Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf. In E. Mazierska, & A. Suppia (Eds.), Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema (72-97). Wayne State University Press

This chapter traces the relationship between Marxism and black radical theory and practice in America, noting the frequent presence of sf imagery at the intersection. It then outlines the development of blaxploitation and establishes a hitherto unrem... Read More about Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf.

The house of worth: Portrait of an archive (2016)
Journal Article
Gormally, M. F. (2017). The house of worth: Portrait of an archive. Fashion Theory, 21(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2016.1179400

The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive stands as a challenge to the ways we research, write and teach fashion and visual cultural histories. This landmark book invites a wide readership. A work of such magnitude calls for an extended response.... Read More about The house of worth: Portrait of an archive.

Providential enunciation in Mr Deeds Goes to Town (2016)
Digital Artefact
Crogan, P. (2016). Providential enunciation in Mr Deeds Goes to Town

Audiovisual essay analysing sequences from Capra classic. Film studies interpretation of enunciative strategy of Mr Deeds.

Creative hubs: Understanding the new economy (2016)
Report
Dovey, J., Pratt, A., Moreton, S., Virani, T., Merkel, J., & Lansdowne, J. (2016). Creative hubs: Understanding the new economy. British Council

A dynamic ecosystem of creative spaces and communities has developed over the last 10 years. This report has been commissioned to better understand their diverse value, processes and motivations and in doing so, analyse how best to support and stimul... Read More about Creative hubs: Understanding the new economy.

The Production And Consumption Of Music In The Digital Age (2016)
Book
Hracs, B. J., Seman, M., & Virani, T. E. (Eds.). (2016). The Production And Consumption Of Music In The Digital Age. New York, USA: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724003

Investigating London’s creative economy: A word on research methods (2016)
Working Paper
Virani, T. Investigating London’s creative economy: A word on research methods

War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace (2016)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2016). War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace. In P. Harrigan, & M. Kirschenbaum (Eds.), Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (641-667). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

This chapter will reflect on aspects of the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so. In examining contemporary and envisaged drone deployments I am also concerned with what they can reveal... Read More about War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace.

Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction (2016)
Book
Beeching, K. (2016). Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed ‘hedges’, ‘fumbles’ and ‘conversational greasers’ in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning,... Read More about Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction.

Intermediaries and the knowledge exchange process: the case of the creative industries and Higher Education (2016)
Book Chapter
Virani, T., & Pratt, A. (2016). Intermediaries and the knowledge exchange process: the case of the creative industries and Higher Education. In R. Comunian, & A. Gilmore (Eds.), Higher Education and the Creative Economy. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Chapter 8. The ‘dull roar’ and the ‘burning barbed wire pantyhose’: Complex metaphor in accounts of chronic pain (2016)
Book Chapter
Charteris-Black, J. Chapter 8. The ‘dull roar’ and the ‘burning barbed wire pantyhose’: Complex metaphor in accounts of chronic pain. . John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.6.08cha

On the possibility of proper verbs (2016)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2016). On the possibility of proper verbs. Linguistics, 54(2), 411-431. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0005

© 2016 by De Gruyter Mouton. The quality of being proper is always presumed, for perfectly understandable reasons to do with its function in acts of reference, to be restricted to nouns or noun phrases. This article is an exploration of the idea that... Read More about On the possibility of proper verbs.

The relationship between magistrates and their communities in the age of crisis: Social protest c. 1790-1834 (2016)
Thesis
Wallis, R. M. The relationship between magistrates and their communities in the age of crisis: Social protest c. 1790-1834. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/913981

An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement (2016)
Thesis
Frimodig, K. E. An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914046

An Honourable Practice is a cohesive study of the operative and ethical framework around the role of the artist and printmaker. The research project uses the artist’s prints as a strategy for social engagement, drawing on the dynamic between a person... Read More about An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement.

Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters (2016)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2016). Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters. In J. Newman, M. Pethers, & C. Marie-Bernier (Eds.), Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (319-331). Edinburgh UP

This article explores the significance of letter writing in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's letters were sent to family members and friends and ranged across his long life. What this chapter addresses is, firstly, the emergence of key Emer... Read More about Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters.