All Outputs (558)

Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton (2007)
Journal Article

This refereed journal article was commissioned by the editor Barbara Gates following an abstract in response to a call for papers. It draws on talks and writing on taxidermy for the exhibition Nanoq Flat-Out and Bluesome by the artists Mark Wilson an... Read More about Anthropomorphic taxidermy and the death of nature: The curious art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton.

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.

The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter

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)
Book Chapter

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.

Re-Representing rural racism through the use of Community Media (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Young people's needs and the negotiation of community media working mainstream services (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How young people have worked with community media projects to negotiate their life needs, working with formal and informal services.

Waar is daar? (Where is there?) (2006)
Journal Article

Europe as the other: The discourses of Europe in non-European English-language newspapers (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Exiled journalists in Europe (2006)
Other

This research was designed to provide a picture of the support available for journalists living in exile in Europe. It examines the help and opportunities on offer in eleven countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Ital... Read More about Exiled journalists in Europe.

Digital games as new media (2006)
Book Chapter

The media and global ethics (2006)
Journal Article

Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games (2006)
Journal Article

The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing multinational and multidisciplinary field. The first UK international conference on computer games in 2001, a UWE event organised by Helen Kennedy and Jon Dovey at the Watershed Medi... Read More about Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games.

New media (2006)
Book Chapter

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.

Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Museums, media and cultural theory (2006)
Book

This monograph built on research funded by the British Academy (2000), and conference papers given in Sheffield (Millennial Animals 2000) and at the American Comparative Literature Association in Boulder, Colorado, in 2001. The final research and wri... Read More about Museums, media and cultural theory.

Games culture: Computer games as new media (2006)
Book

Slander, sentimentality or silence: What children put up with from the media (2005)
Journal Article

SimAcademy (2005)
Journal Article

The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing field. This article surveys its global - and local - development, and some of the conceptual issues it raises.

Beyond Project: Working towards defining and sustaining the community media sector (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Discussing the impact of the UNESCO MacBride Report titled, 'Many Voices-One World', on the ethos and working principles of community media education, and building upon the report findings to build a sustainable community media sector.

Spinners or sinners? PR, journalists and public trust (2005)
Journal Article

The credibility of journalists and public relations professionals took some bad knocks in 2004. This paper examines the recent history of the debate and some of the efforts being made within the communications industry to rebuild the public confidenc... Read More about Spinners or sinners? PR, journalists and public trust.