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"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2008, December). "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008. Paper presented at Crossing Cultures: Woman, Aging and Media AHRC International Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b... Read More about "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008.

Visibility/ invisibility (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2008, September). Visibility/ invisibility. Presented at Women, Ageing and Media AHRC Research Network, St Matthias Campus, UWE, Bristol

Through a focus on visibility/invisibility, the workshop established networking links, tracked changes patterns of representation and established shared intellectual terrain in areas of inclusion and exclusion, between scholars working on the prolife... Read More about Visibility/ invisibility.

Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, September). Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype. Paper presented at Sublimely Visual: The Art of Text, University of Bristol, England

The Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath was a prolific writer or books, journal articles and letters and invented an international picture language known as Isotype. This paper looks in detail at the relationship between this pictu... Read More about Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype.

Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, September). Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype. Paper presented at Network of Design, Conference of the design history society, University College Falmouth

In 2005 Bruno Latour and Peter Wiebel used Isotype charts to conclude their exhibition Making Things Public at the ZKM Centre in Karlsruhe. They contrasted Isotype to their own vision of things as assemblages, disputed states of affairs, and actants.... Read More about Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype.

When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Gross, B. (2008, September). When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news. Paper presented at Power: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences, University of Tempere, Finland

The paper addressed the power relations between journalists and subaltern voices, e.g. asylum seekers, on British television news based on discourse analytical approach to television news coverage.

The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, August). The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute. Paper presented at Orientations: The International Society for cultural history conference, Ghent

This paper addresses how cultural history conceives of cultural forms and practices: as mediated expressions of socio-economic reality or as participants in the production of that reality. I explore this through a case study of the Isotype Institute,... Read More about The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute.

Positioning education within community media (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2008, August). Positioning education within community media. Paper presented at OurMedia Conference 7, Accra, Ghana

Looking at how educational activities contribute to the broader community media sector, and discussing the impacts of involvement for young people in media arts activity.

Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Johnson-Idan, L., Bunting, D., Rocas, V., & Watts, V. (2008, August). Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media. Paper presented at OurMedia7 Conference, Accra, Ghana

Discussing how critical pedagogy approaches to participatory media production can enable young people co-producing the media address and negotiate complex aspects of their identities, in this instance, identities of race and culture. This paper was... Read More about Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media.

Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, June). Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE. Paper presented at Journal of Media Practice, 4th Annual Symposium, University of Leeds, UK

This paper uses my practice research project on the impact of digital technology on feature film production to reflect on the implications of the current KTP or Knowledge Exchange agenda on media practice research and education.

Song Archive Project at the 9th SIEF Congress (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Buchheim, Y. (2008, June). Song Archive Project at the 9th SIEF Congress. Presented at 9th SIEF Congress, Derry, Northern Ireland

Transcending “European Heritages”: Liberating the ethnological imagination Throughout the Congress Yvonne Buchheim exhibited selected video work from the Song Archive project. She also solicited new material from conference delegates as part of he... Read More about Song Archive Project at the 9th SIEF Congress.

The art of anticipation: How animation depicted the possibilities of space exploration (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2008, June). The art of anticipation: How animation depicted the possibilities of space exploration. Paper presented at Visualising Space: Animating the Universe, National Space Centre, Leicester

During the 1950s Animation was one of the primary ways in which the possibilities of space travel and exploration were depicted. The focus of the paper was primarily on American outputs such as Disney’s Man in Space (1955) and the work of Chesley Bon... Read More about The art of anticipation: How animation depicted the possibilities of space exploration.

Women, ageing and media workshops (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J., Jenning, R., Garde Hansen, J., Gorton, K., Wilson, S., & Tincknell, E. (2008, June). Women, ageing and media workshops. Presented at AHRC funded Research Networks and Workshops: Women, Ageing and Media, http://insight.glos.ac.uk/researchmainpage/centres/wam/Pages/AHRCfundedResearchNetworksandWorkshopsProject.aspx

The Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) research group secured Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding in 2008 to run a series of workshops and an international conference in order to conduct a sustained investigation into proliferating print,... Read More about Women, ageing and media workshops.

Documentary in the contemporary mediascape (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2008, June). Documentary in the contemporary mediascape. Paper presented at Negotiating the Mediascape, University of Kent, Canterbury

This paper looked at teaching documentary production as an integrated process of practice, theory and pedagogy within the context of the contemporary media landscape. The starting point of the paper was to address the purpose and motivation of the fi... Read More about Documentary in the contemporary mediascape.

Rethinking archives: History, media, memory (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M., & Warren, J. (2008, June). Rethinking archives: History, media, memory. Presented at Rethinking Archives: History, Media, Memory, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

A series of four interdisciplinary workshops held at Arnolfini, Bristol for participants selected from relevant institutions and invited members of Arnolfini’s audience. These workshops set out to bridge archival theory and practice, and looked in pa... Read More about Rethinking archives: History, media, memory.

10 Years of CelAction (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2008, May). 10 Years of CelAction. Presented at British Children's Animation: 10 Years of Celaction, Loughborough, UK

Initiated and co-organized a public round-table discussion and screening investigating the impact of CelAction software on the UK animation industry. Co-organisers: Paul Wells (Director, Animation Academy, Loughborough University) and Gareth Howell (... Read More about 10 Years of CelAction.

Film is digital (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, May). Film is digital. Presented at Invited research seminar, University of Bedfordshire

Presentation of practice research project on the impact of digital technologies on feature film production

Digital futures: Digital decay (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, April). Digital futures: Digital decay. Presented at MA Screen Studies, Specialised Film Exhibition, University of Bristol

Lecture to the MA Screen Studies unit in Specialised Cinema Exhibition on the impact of digital technology on feature film exhibition and distribution.

Death; A minor annoyance or an invitation to play? (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dixon, D. (2008, April). Death; A minor annoyance or an invitation to play?. Paper presented at Breaking the Magic Circle, University of Tampere

Games involve a lot of death, it’s hard to play games without encountering death in some format. But what does death mean in the context of games? This paper seeks to explore death firstly as a concept internally in games and also use various phenome... Read More about Death; A minor annoyance or an invitation to play?.

Living signs: Theory and materiality in the work of Otto Neurath (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, March). Living signs: Theory and materiality in the work of Otto Neurath. Paper presented at Engaging Objects, Amsterdam

Using the work of Otto Neurath, this paper considers theory as a material social practice. Some scholars see in Neurath’s work a ‘naïve’ belief in the possibility of the clear, unambiguous, transmission of facts untainted by their material support. Y... Read More about Living signs: Theory and materiality in the work of Otto Neurath.