All Outputs (558)

Another Place - Contemporary Landscape Photography (2018)
Digital Artefact

Feature on the project 'A Fluid Landscape'.

Photography - Deeply connected with nature (2018)
Digital Artefact

An interview and feature on the publication of the book 'A Fluid Landscape'

Polyphony in practice: An interview with Sharon Daniel (2018)
Journal Article

Media artist Sharon Daniel has been involved with the i-Docs community since its inception—having presented her online documentaries and works in progress at all five i-Docs symposia that have taken place since 2011. We consider her to be a central a... Read More about Polyphony in practice: An interview with Sharon Daniel.

Interactive documentary: Setting the field (2018)
Book Chapter

This is a re-print of my 2012 article of the same name.

An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This provocation offered an analysis of a piece of photographic artwork I produced, a self-portrait inbetween two enslaved Africans. The Africans portrayed are named Jack and Delia, enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, photographed by Joseph T. Z... Read More about An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive.

‘Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone’: Documenting an investigative arts project on the environmental destruction of the Thames Estuary (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

“Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone” is a gallery of fifteen short films that document a multi-layered investigative arts project exploring the changing ecology, society and industry of the Thames Estuary. As this subject matter presented a significant c... Read More about ‘Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone’: Documenting an investigative arts project on the environmental destruction of the Thames Estuary.

The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article responds to the recent wave of experimentation with Virtual Reality (VR) as a nonfiction platform. Amidst daily announcements of new VR documentary initiatives, and... Read More about The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform.

Hidden pluralities: Rastafari in the South West and the house where God lived (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this keynote presentation Sobers discusses the intricacies of the Rastafari faith, how it has been underestimated as a cultural movement, and how its legacies have local, national and global significance.
The paper is presented in three parts.... Read More about Hidden pluralities: Rastafari in the South West and the house where God lived.

Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone : Screenworks / Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene (2018)
Journal Article

This paper develops the research outcomes of the Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone project, drawing out some of its key themes in relation to the online Screenworks volume "Digital Cultures and the Anthropocene".

Learning Through Practice In Higher Education: A Contrasting Look At Experiential Learning And Communities Of Practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sony World Photography Awards 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

The series 'A Fluid Landscape' was shortlisted in the Professional Landscape Category of the Sony World Photography Awards 2018. The Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition travels extensively each year, giving winning and shortlisted photographers... Read More about Sony World Photography Awards 2018.

Digital Propaganda: The Tyranny of Ignorance (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. The existence of propaganda is inexorably bound to the nature of communication and communications technology. Mass communication by citizens in the digital age has been heralded as a means to counter elite propaganda; however, i... Read More about Digital Propaganda: The Tyranny of Ignorance.

Blood Sugar - Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire - A slavery connected history (2018)
Digital Artefact

This film has been made by the Nottingham based Slave Trade Legacies (STL) group with Dr Shawn Naphtali Sobers, based on a poem by Michelle 'Mother' Hubbard. STL is a mainly African Caribbean group working to gain acknowledgement of the contribution... Read More about Blood Sugar - Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire - A slavery connected history.

Court reporting and local newspapers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reported on a pilot study carried out by UWE Law and UWE Journalism in January 2018 into reporting of newsworthy stories at the Magistrates Courts. In one week, researchers saw every case heard in Bristol Magistrates Courts, coded these fo... Read More about Court reporting and local newspapers.

Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins (2018)
Book

Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalized communities who have traditionally shied away from the camera. At a time when individual rights are being contested and when those... Read More about Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins.

Jaipur Photo 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

Jaipur Photo is an annual international photography festival held annually throughout the city of Jaipur, India. It offers a curated selection of international photography exhibitions staged at various UNESCO World Heritage Sites across Jaipur; visit... Read More about Jaipur Photo 2018.

Sustainability in the media industries: The lack of transparency and the 'Sony hack' (2018)
Book Chapter

Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality (2018)
Journal Article

Surveying the contemporary nonfiction work being developed within the framework of VR, an opposition emerges between the promise of VR as escape from materiality and a promise of corporeal engagement. In this article, I consider how this opposition b... Read More about Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality.

George Rodger: Nuba & Lakuta - The Colour Photographs (2017)
Book

This classic color series by legendary Magnum photographer George Rodger introduced the Western world to the Nuba peoples of Sudan. In 1949 the photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger, learned of the Nuba tribe while traveling in... Read More about George Rodger: Nuba & Lakuta - The Colour Photographs.

New formats—new discourses? An exploration of the potential of the representation of refugees and asylum seekers in mobile-first mainstream media content (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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