All Outputs (12)

United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place (2017)
Book Chapter
Jempson, M., Powell, W., & Reardon, S. (2017). United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place. In T. Eberwein, S. Fengler, & M. Karmasin (Eds.), The European Handbook of Media Accountability. Routledge

In recent years, the media in the UK have been under greater scrutiny than ever before, across all platforms. Journalists have been the subject of protracted criminal investigations and trials. The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethi... Read More about United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place.

The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary (2017)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2017). The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary. In A. Miles (Ed.), The Material Turn and Interactive Documentary: A Panel (50-61). A media materialisms UnPublising initiative

“This paper came out of a panel on 'The Material Turn and Interactive Documentary' at Visible Evidence XXIV, Buenos Aires, 2017. Each panelist was asked to make a series of propositions and interrogations around new epistemologies and ontologies for... Read More about The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary.

View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary (2017)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S., Dovey, J., & Agusita, E. (2017). View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary. In A. Atay, & J. Brower (Eds.), Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City: Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments. Lexington Books

"Bristol has a culture of tryers, lots of people trying but because there’s a lack of accessibility. Because there is a lack of exits, naturally there are loads of people trying to get out… it is full of people who are trying because they can't grab... Read More about View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary.

Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value (2017)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J., Sobers, S., & Agusita, E. (2017). Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value. In S. Malik, C. Chapain, & R. Comunian (Eds.), Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Innovation, Policy and Practice. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642727

This chapter discusses the Creative Citizens study, an extensive research project conducted by the authors from 2013 to 2015, looking into the community media practices of the South Blessed collective, a self-motivated network of young creatives appr... Read More about Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value.

Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression (2017)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2017). Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression. In W. J. Schünemann, & M. Baumann (Eds.), Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe (31-42). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53634-7_3

Social media have been shown to have the potential to broaden the scope of public communication and public sphere processes. In repressive societies or contexts, they can function as an alternative public sphere challenging the mainstream; but it als... Read More about Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression.

Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism (2017)
Book Chapter
Rose, M. (2017). Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism. In M. Rose, S. Gaudenzi, & J. Aston (Eds.), i-docs: the evolving practices of interactive documentary (49-65). New York, Chichester, West Sussex: Wallflower, Columbia University Press

In this chapter I address the co-creative dimension of two interactive documentary projects – Question Bridge and Quipu. I examine the cultural precursors and contexts that inspired their divergent co-creative approaches. I consider how the producers... Read More about Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism.

Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction (2017)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2017). Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction. In M. Rose, S. Gaudenzi, & J. Aston (Eds.), The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary (222-237). New York: Wallflower, subsidiary of Columbia University Press

In 2015, I gave a keynote lecture on ‘Interactive Documentary and Live Performance’ (Aston 2015), a subject which has received little attention to date within the field of interactive documentary practice. My argument was that the sense of time, plac... Read More about Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction.

Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry (2017)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J. (2017). Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry. In J. Aston, S. Gaudenzi, & M. Rose (Eds.), I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary (272-288). Columbia, USA: Wallflower Press

In this chapter I want to mark a moment in the evolving story of the interactive documentary and to look at its developmental trajectory to date. I want to think about how we would establish a timeline for the development of the i-doc and further, ho... Read More about Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry.

Becoming independent: Distribution after the multiplex (2017)
Book Chapter
Lees, D., & Sexton, M. (2017). Becoming independent: Distribution after the multiplex. In A. Weinstein (Ed.), Perform: Directing for the Screen. Abingdon: Routledge Focail Press

This chapter provides an overall understanding of how online distribution has impacted on directing for independent films. It seeks to offer insights into the opportunities for directors to find distribution online, analysing new strategies that can... Read More about Becoming independent: Distribution after the multiplex.

Intergenerational dialogues: A reflection on the role of photography, drawing and material culture in the ritual of Black everyday life (2017)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S. Intergenerational dialogues: A reflection on the role of photography, drawing and material culture in the ritual of Black everyday life. In E. Robles, & D. Price (Eds.), Transnational Culture: Framing the Critical Decade. Peter Lang Publication. Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter explores the dynamics of second generation Black British artists working with the stories of their parent’s generation that came over to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1960s. The research broadens out to discuss other forms of work th... Read More about Intergenerational dialogues: A reflection on the role of photography, drawing and material culture in the ritual of Black everyday life.

Ethiopian stories in an English landscape (2017)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S. (2017). Ethiopian stories in an English landscape. In H. Roued-Cunliffe, & A. Copeland (Eds.), Participatory Heritage. Facet Publishing

Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with an established narrative of being built by the Romans, and built upon with architectural splendour by the Georgians in the 1700-1800s. This has resulted in a tourist industry worth an annual average of £414... Read More about Ethiopian stories in an English landscape.

Time of evolution in photographic dialogues (2017)
Book Chapter
Banks, L. (2017). Time of evolution in photographic dialogues. In K. Hursthouse, & S. Sobers (Eds.), Photographic Dialogues Journal (47-47). Bristol: Community Media South West

Article written for the first issue of Photographic Dialogues, a journal produced by Bristol Photography Research Group. This special issue looks at photographers who shoot moving image, and the relationship between the creative approaches. The arti... Read More about Time of evolution in photographic dialogues.