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Multimedia theatre before the digital age (2013)
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In this article I intend to provide a short overview of the historically rich interrelationship between theatre and multimedia, up to the present time where a set of similar practical and theoretical questions has reappeared following the influence o... Read More about Multimedia theatre before the digital age.

Cultural activism and the politics of place-making (2013)
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In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft,... Read More about Cultural activism and the politics of place-making.

An exploration of job demands, job control, stress, and attitudes in public, nonprofit, and for-profit employees (2013)
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© 2013 SAGE Publications. Drawing on the Job Demands-Control-Support model, we argue that job demands, job control, social support, stress, and employee attitudes differ by ownership sector. Using Random Coefficient/ Hierarchical Linear Modeling, we... Read More about An exploration of job demands, job control, stress, and attitudes in public, nonprofit, and for-profit employees.

Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement (2013)
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This paper engages with recent policy changes in the UK surrounding the government's Big Society and localism agenda. Examining the framework and condition through which these programmes are developing in England, the article traces the conceptual de... Read More about Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement.

Experiences with AR plots: A travel time augmented reality game (2013)
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Digital games have the potential for changing attitudes towards social issues such as climate change and sustainability. These games don’t have to be based on fixed computing and with the rise of smart phone, they can make use of a range of sensor an... Read More about Experiences with AR plots: A travel time augmented reality game.

'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev (2012)
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Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the film’s affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experienc... Read More about 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev.

The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change (2012)
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The language of relational geography now permeates the field and literature of planning, with phrases such as 'fuzzy boundaries' and 'flows and networks' being commonly used to express the complexity of socio-economic and governance relations. Howeve... Read More about The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change.

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
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This is the introduction to the special issue of Culture Machine co-edited by the authors and drawn from the 2010 conference of the same name co-convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundaiton (see www.payingatten... Read More about Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy.

Archiving digital narrative: Some issues (2012)
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The complexities of archiving digital content, particularly those story forms reliant on multiple platforms, highlights technical, cultural and curatorial issues that remain difficult to reconcile coherently. Seeking to frame the issues within this s... Read More about Archiving digital narrative: Some issues.

Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata (2012)
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Digital heritage archives often lack engaging user interfaces that strike a balance between providing narrative context and affording user interaction and exploration. It seems nevertheless feasible for metadata tagging and a "joined up" workflow to... Read More about Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata.

'The queen', aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy (2012)
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Located in the ideologically saturated discourses of historical truth and the cinematic conventions of authenticity mobilised by the biopic genre, Stephen Frear’s 2006 film, The Queen, contributes to the hegemonic recuperation of the British monarchy... Read More about 'The queen', aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy.

We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage (2012)
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This article is concerned with the social praxis of documentary in the sea of ‘ubiquitous data’ that is both consequence and driver of online social mediation. The topic is given importance by the morphing of the character of video in the context of... Read More about We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage.

I-docs special edition (2012)
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This special edition presents a collection of articles that came out of i-Docs 2011, the first international symposium exclusively devoted to the rapidly evolving field of international documentary-making. The symposium was held at the Watershed Medi... Read More about I-docs special edition.

Interactive documentary: Setting the field (2012)
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This article articulates the authors’ combined vision behind convening i-Docs, the first international symposia to focus exclusively on the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. In so doing, it provides a case study of practice-driven re... Read More about Interactive documentary: Setting the field.

Editing (and) individuation (2012)
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This essay will explore aspects of Bernard Stiegler's theorisation of film editing as the construction of a flux of perceptual experience at the heart of the industrialisation of attention characteristic of modern and contemporary technocultures. Thi... Read More about Editing (and) individuation.

Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play (2011)
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This video essay is a microethological study of the transduction of a virtual world (the PC game Age of Mythologies) into the actual world play of children with toys and water. The video is constructed from an audio recording and a sequence of still... Read More about Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play.

Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection (2011)
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It has become almost axiomatic to state that the transition to digital technologies represents a momentous period of change for the cinema. As Angelo D’Alessio of the European Digital Cinema Form suggests, “the Cinema industry is confronting unparall... Read More about Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection.

Spatial planning as an integrative mechanism: A study of sub-regional planning in South Hampshire, England (2011)
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This article examines the concept of integrated spatial planning through a case study of subregional working in South Hampshire, England. It argues that while the government's notion of integration was ill-defined and inconsistent, there were critica... Read More about Spatial planning as an integrative mechanism: A study of sub-regional planning in South Hampshire, England.

Living life in pictures: Isotype as modernist cultural practice (2011)
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Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture (2010)
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This essay takes Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2001) as a starting point for consideration of the impact of simulational interactive media on contemporary technoculture. The connections made in the film between virtual reality games and military research an... Read More about Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture.