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Spatial montage and multimedia ethnography: Using computers to visualise aspects of migration and social division among a displaced community (2010)
Journal Article
Aston, J. (2010). Spatial montage and multimedia ethnography: Using computers to visualise aspects of migration and social division among a displaced community. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 11(2), Art. 36

Peer reviewed journal article based on contribution to international conference on Visualising Migration ad Divided Societies, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, June 2008.

Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative (2009)
Journal Article
Abba, T. (2009). Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative. Science Fiction Film and Television, 2(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1353/sff.0.0026

Among recent examples of long-form sf drama, there is a tendency to extend the broadcast story across mulitple narrative platforms. The web, mobile telephony and print media are recombined with established broadcast platforms to produce a form of sto... Read More about Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative.

Straw men or cyborgs? (2009)
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Dovey, J., & Lister, M. (2009). Straw men or cyborgs?. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 1(1), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.1.1.129_1

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?.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2009). The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister. Transformations,

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.

The Outsider: Anthony Simmons (2008)
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Dolan, J., & Spicer, A. H. (2008). The Outsider: Anthony Simmons. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(1), 132-145. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000113

This interview with veteran British Film director Anthony Simmons gives an account of Simmons’ career in the context of a declining industry in the 1970s. It offers previously unknown production background to films such as Black Joy and The Optimists... Read More about The Outsider: Anthony Simmons.

As we might watch: what might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film? (2008)
Journal Article
Abba, T. (2008). As we might watch: what might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?. Journal of Media Practice, 9(1), 19-27. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.1.19+1

Interactive film form has been conceived of in terms of branching; multi-linear narratives predominantly drawing on the mechanics of the computer games industry. Interactive engagements produced within this framework have failed to revolutionise eith... Read More about As we might watch: what might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?.

Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative (2008)
Journal Article
Aston, J. (2008). Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative. Journal of Media Practice, 9(1), 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.1.43_1

This article outlines work in progress in relation to a collaborative project between me as a multimedia designer and Oxford anthropologist, Professor Wendy James. The aim of the collaboration is to explore new possibilities for using digital media t... Read More about Voices from the blue nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative.

Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy (2008)
Journal Article
Sobers, S. (2008). Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy. Journal of Media Practice, 9(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.1.53_1

This article will discuss the way children across three schools in Bristol, United Kingdom have been engaged in a unique short film experiment. The video project they were involved with aimed to inspire the young participants to actively consider not... Read More about Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy.

'Digital Decay' (2008)
Journal Article
Crofts, C. (2008). 'Digital Decay'. Moving Image -Minneapolis-, 8(2), xiii-35. https://doi.org/10.1353/mov.0.0015

The fate of 35mm as an acquisition and exhibition medium is intimately connected with questions of future-proofing, archiving, preservation, and access, which are currently at the foreground of recent debates around screen heritage in the UK. In this... Read More about 'Digital Decay'.

Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies (2008)
Journal Article
Dovey, J. (2008). Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies. Journal of Media Practice, 9(3), 243-256. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.9.3.243/1

The changes in traditional patterns of media production and consumption brought about by digital technologies in their networked form pose challenges to both practitioners and theorists. As the practices of mass media dissolve into the processes of t... Read More about Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies.

A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2008)
Journal Article
Henning, M. (2008). A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity

This is a 2,500 word book review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s co-written book, Objectivity, Zone Books, New York, 2007. I emphasise how they explain objectivity as a virtue, and use descriptions of scientific practices. I explain their dis... Read More about A picture of virtue: Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2007). Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra. Convergence, 13(4), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507082204

This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2007). A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities. Games and Culture, 2(4), 392-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412007309534

This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.