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Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI (2022)
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Crogan, P. (2022). Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI. Media Theory, 6(2), 25-54

This essay considers the nature and stakes of creative making with computational automation technologies. I will argue that Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach to the human as “technical life” takes care of the question of the nature of creativ... Read More about Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI.

‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation (2022)
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Spicer, A. (2022). ‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation. Viewfinder, 121,

This article discusses the cultural, social and political reasons why Channel 4 moved out of London in 2017-18 and the context of the move with the threat of privatisation by the government. It places Channel 4's relocation as part of a much longer h... Read More about ‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation.

Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London (2022)
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Virani, T. E. (2023). Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London. City, Culture and Society, 32, 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100493

Creative cluster urban policy, aimed at regenerating parts of cities in the UK, has been linked with ameliorating social exclusion in the extant policy literature. This is paradoxical given levels of exclusion within the creative and cultural industr... Read More about Social inclusion and SMEs: The case of creative SMEs in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, London.

Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic (2022)
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Tincknell, E. (2023). Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 568-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2149346

In this essay I explore two recent ‘reparative biopics,’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) and Seberg (Benedict Andrews, 2019), which share features found in the resurgent cycle of 1960s-set ‘back studio’ films that have appeare... Read More about Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic.

Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings (2022)
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Ganaah, J., Nartey, M., & Bhatia, A. (2023). Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings. Journal of Language and Politics, 22(1), 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22002.gan

This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van L... Read More about Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings.

Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(4), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2130950

This article examines tweets produced by Occupy Ghana during its #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. It sheds light on how activist discourses are most persuasively narrativized when they capitalize on local sentiment and language feature... Read More about Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns.

‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate Creative Writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry (2022)
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Cartwright, A. (2022). ‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate Creative Writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 166-183. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00037_1

This illustrated article offers a record of work done for a third-year undergraduate module called Creative Writing and the Self, as part of the Creative and Professional Writing programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the aut... Read More about ‘But what are they?’: Zine-making and invitational creative practice in an undergraduate Creative Writing class inspired by the work of Lynda Barry.

Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange (2022)
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McEwen, L., Roberts, L., Holmes, A., Blake, J., Liguori, A., & Taylor, T. (2022). Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange. Sustainability Science, 17, 2489–2511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01169-0

This paper evaluates a unique, transdisciplinary participatory research and knowledge exchange methodology developed in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) project and offers it as a transferable framework for others engaging stakeholders and systemic con... Read More about Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange.

The impact of data sonification in virtual reality robot teleoperation (2022)
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Bremner, P., Mitchell, T. J., & McIntosh, V. (2022). The impact of data sonification in virtual reality robot teleoperation. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3, 904720. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.904720

Virtual Reality (VR) is being increasingly used to provide a more intuitive and embodied approach to robotic teleoperation, giving operators a sense of presence in the remote environment. Prior research has shown that presence can be enhanced when ad... Read More about The impact of data sonification in virtual reality robot teleoperation.

Pride in STEM worldwide (2022)
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Obedin-Maliver, J., Ochu, E., Zhong, F., Shaikh, A., Hanna, J. H., & Foley, E. (2022). Pride in STEM worldwide. Cell, 185(17), 3070-3072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.027

Cell asked LGBTQ+ scientists around the world about how their identity shapes their experiences in STEM. Here we share six unique perspectives of researchers highlighting how their area of expertise, research focus, institutions, and geographical loc... Read More about Pride in STEM worldwide.

Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism (2022)
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Harrison, L. (2023). Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism. Textual Practice, 37(11), 1708-1736. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2022.2111709

The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism of influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach mode... Read More about Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism.

Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk (2022)
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McIntosh, V. (2022). Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3, 909984. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.909984

There is a growing interest the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate unsafe spaces, scenarios, and behaviours. Environments that might be difficult, costly, dangerous, or ethically contentious to achieve in real life can be created in virtual envi... Read More about Dialing up the danger: Virtual reality for the simulation of risk.

‘‘The future is now’’ — A European perspective on the future of science communication (2022)
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Ochu, E., Russo, P., & Smeets, I. (2022). ‘‘The future is now’’ — A European perspective on the future of science communication. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 21(5), R03. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21050603

The Future of SciComm 2.0 conference was a one-day event in Brussels on April 26th 2022. Focusing on the future of European science communication, sixty participants from twelve countries with different expertise discussed the current challenges and... Read More about ‘‘The future is now’’ — A European perspective on the future of science communication.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
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Crofts, C. (2022). Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16(2), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad001

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective (2022)
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Crofts, C., & Ikoma, N. (2022). Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac027

Since her premature death in 1992, Angela Carter has become recognized as one of the most important writers in the English language, with numerous edited collections, theater adaptations, documentaries, and The Bloody Chamber now on the A-Level sylla... Read More about Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective.

Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation (2022)
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Ballinger, G. (2022). Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation. Humanities, 11(4), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11040081

Jane Austen’s final novel fragment Sanditon has inspired continuations of many kinds from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The most recent literary afterlife it has generated is the 2019 British adaptation for ITV, created by Andrew Davies, and wi... Read More about Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation.

Extract from "More on the Plums" with synopsis (2022)
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Rogers, S. (2022). Extract from "More on the Plums" with synopsis. Poetrishy, 2,

Five poems, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums", accompanied by a synopsis of the composition/methodology.

Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales (2022)
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Chadwick, M., Clavier, S. W., & Evans, S. (2022). Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru / Welsh History Review, 31(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.16922/whr.31.1.1

This introduction outlines the research context from which this special number arises. It opens with a discussion of the interdisciplinary conference ‘Reading, Writing and Collecting: Books and Manuscripts in Wales, 1450–1850’ and our rationale in ou... Read More about Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2022)
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Rogers, S. (2022). Extract from "More on the Plums". Popshot Quarterly, 36, 28-29

One poem from a pamphlet-length sequence.