All Outputs (558)

Safer txt (2009)
Other

Brokered and facilitated live project between Terrence Higgins Trust, NHS regional trust, and L2 UWE animation students, working closely with Rachel Robinson and John Parry. A group of 16 students produced a 90 second animation to educate teens (14-1... Read More about Safer txt.

Earworms (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Earworms features song performances from the Song Archive Project installed underwater in a public swimming pool. The project focuses on the role of singing and swimming to explore ritual and community in public places. The sound work is audible only... Read More about Earworms.

Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Looking specifically at the Dorset coast; a place designated a 'world heritage site' and replete with cultural discourse such as the novels of Thomas Hardy, the photographs of Paul Nash and the history of the south coast holiday trade. This paper use... Read More about Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning.

Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression and migrant voices on TV news (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, vol 4., no. 2 (April 2009), Special Section on games and technology (2009)
Other

This special section, co-edited by Patrick Crogan and Helen Kennedy, comprised the majority of this issue of Games and Culture and was derived from a UWE Play Research Group one day symposium held in September 2006.

Technologies between games and culture (2009)
Journal Article

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

Events and collusions: A glossary for the microethnography of video game play (2009)
Journal Article

This essay draws on a number of recent research projects that record and analyze video game play. The "microethnographic" approach that they develop suggests methodological strategies, both for analyzing gameplay and for identifying and conceptualizi... Read More about Events and collusions: A glossary for the microethnography of video game play.

The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper looked at teaching documentary production as an integrated process of practice, theory and pedagogy. It attempted to outline an established but necessarily flexible methodology for teaching documentary production that encompasses purpose... Read More about The consciousness of documentary: Teaching documentary.

Übersong (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ÜBERSONG: A night of experimental song, art, performance and open mic The event combined live performances, video screenings, DJ set, happenings and open mic to explore the culture of song. The event brought together Berlin artist/DJ Maurus Gmur,... Read More about Übersong.

The cosmic symbol (2009)
Book Chapter

A brief essay demonstrating an approach to writing about material objects. This essay takes the example of a Soviet export camera – The Cosmic Symbol – and explores the contradictions between the form and design of the camera, its origins in the Sovi... Read More about The cosmic symbol.

Plan China (2009)
Digital Artefact

In 2007 I visited Guangzhou, China for 10 days as Filmmaker-in-Residence with a group of young people and three other support workers, on a research trip exploring creative life and education in the city. The resulting 21 minute film was screened... Read More about Plan China.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
Journal Article

The Ister (Ross and Barison, 2003)—part documentary, travelogue and philosophical meditation supplementing Heidegger’s meditation on Holderlin’s poem about the Danube—opens and closes with sequences of a duck waddling along the bank of the river. The... Read More about The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister.

Pattern Languages for CMC Design (2009)
Book Chapter

Three decades ago the concept of pattern languages were introduced in the field of architecture and have since become widely used in object-oriented programming and HCI. However their use in computing is divergent from Alexander’s original goals on... Read More about Pattern Languages for CMC Design.

Straw men or cyborgs? (2009)
Journal Article

This paper responds to calls in the last two years for a Media Studies 2.0 that would reformulate the discipline to take account of the radical changes in Media practices brought about by digital technologies and their cultures. Whilst agreeing on th... Read More about Straw men or cyborgs?.

New Media - A Critical Introduction (2009)
Book

This is a Second Edition of a book first co authored for 2003. The book offers students conceptual frameworks for thinking through a range of key issues which have arisen over two decades of speculation on the cultural implications of new media .

Outlanders (2009)
Digital Artefact

After his father's death, Adam hitchhikes to London from his hometown in Poland to find his older brother, a former Polish football star, now supplying illegal migrant workers to the booming construction industry in London. To the impressionable youn... Read More about Outlanders.

"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

From PressWise to MediaWise: promoting journalism ethics in the UK (2008)
Book Chapter