Post-war Englishness: Maytime in Mayfair, utopian visions and consumer culture
(2007)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (95)
Playing with nonhumans: digital games as technocultural form (2007)
Book Chapter
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.
New lamps for old: Photography, obsolescence and social change (2007)
Book Chapter
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)
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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.
The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
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Crofts was invited to contribute this chapter to Munford's volume which is recognised as 'the first to focus entirely on [intertextuality] in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.... Read More about The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism".
Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games (2006)
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This chapter, fully collaborative from inception to completion, was conceived as way of interrogating the critical aporia in current game studies around understanding gameplay pleasures and engagements. This was the first piece of published research... Read More about Playing the ring: Intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games.
Digital games as new media (2006)
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New media (2006)
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Henning was invited to contribute this chapter on the strength of her AHRC application for Museums, Media and Cultural Theory, for which Sharon Macdonald was a reviewer. The essay develops ideas and areas of research touched on briefly in the book. I... Read More about New media.
Interference on the airwaves: Ireland, the media and the broadcasting ban (1999)
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Assuming white identities: Racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide (1999)
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This essay explores and problematises the category of 'white women', examining the developing dialogue between feminist and postcolonial discourses across the literature / media divide.
Our focus is on representation which, as Richard Dyer acknowl... Read More about Assuming white identities: Racial and gendered looking across the literature/media divide.
Torture worldwide and the agencies involved (1996)
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Writing about wrongs (1989)
Book Chapter
'Smaller is better in the localities' and 'Whither alternative local papers?' (1984)
Book Chapter
The experience of the industrial temporal object
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In Technics and Time 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Bernard Stiegler elaborates his notion of the industrial temporal object in order to characterise the nature of modern industrially produced media forms. This essay will examine Stie... Read More about The experience of the industrial temporal object.