Outputs (65)

Polyphonic futures (2018)
Book Chapter

Game-Changing Documentarism engages in dialogue with more than 30 writers and stakeholders who lead the state-of-the-art documentary scene in Japan and abroad. The editor writes in the introduction to my article: "How will the documentary list living... Read More about Polyphonic futures.

Interactive documentary: Setting the field (2018)
Book Chapter

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

Under new moons we stand strong - Symbolism and literacy in an era of digital oppression (2018)
Book Chapter

In an era of digital oppression, by which I mean the digital regimes and systems of traceability and accountability that we now encounter everyday, the mask and masking of oneself takes on another meaning. It is within this context that the return of... Read More about Under new moons we stand strong - Symbolism and literacy in an era of digital oppression.

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

The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical introduction to the finance and production of independent film and television production in the UK. Film, long considered entertainment rather than art, continues to suffer from low levels of public funding, and the m... Read More about The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction.

The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary (2017)
Book Chapter

“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

"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)
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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.

'Dead air': The acoustic of war and peace - creative interpretations of the sound of conflict and remembrance (2017)
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On 11th November 2001, Jonty Semper released a two CD album, Kenotaphion, which captured the empty sounds of seventy years of Two Minute Silences recorded at the Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph in London. The earliest... Read More about 'Dead air': The acoustic of war and peace - creative interpretations of the sound of conflict and remembrance.

Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism (2017)
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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.

Hospitality and ownership of spaces (2017)
Book Chapter

How can art open up new forms of hospitality and commoning in the city? Dillon’s URBAN HUT taps into this question of living art shaping civic reality in the city.

For what it's worth: Sound art practices within secondary school curricula (2016)
Book Chapter

To follow

Creating resilient subjects: The coexist project (2016)
Book Chapter

“Resilience” has become a new lingua franca for how we should live in realms as diverse as climate change, global urbanization, organizational change, community building, and personal development. In its broadest sense, it signifies the nature of liv... Read More about Creating resilient subjects: The coexist project.

Invading Europe. Netflix’s expansion to the European market and the example of Germany (2016)
Book Chapter

The impact of roleplaying games on culture (2016)
Book Chapter

Role-playing games are an essential element of our gaming landscape. They have not only played a core role in the development of games, but have much wider currency in popular culture and are often used as a frame of reference for many generic infere... Read More about The impact of roleplaying games on culture.

Civic cultures and modalities of place-making (2016)
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Acts of creative citizenship require places, where challenges and tensions generate energy, inviting resolution through creative collaboration. In this chapter we aim to shed light on processes of place-making, whether they occur in physical, digital... Read More about Civic cultures and modalities of place-making.

Citizenship, value and digital culture (2016)
Book Chapter

War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter will reflect on aspects of the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so. In examining contemporary and envisaged drone deployments I am also concerned with what they can reveal... Read More about War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace.

Wargaming (as) literature (2016)
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As Kirschenbaum argues, board wargames have a lot to teach about the ways that narrative is created in games and “help us to understand the role of process and procedure in stories and games” (Kirschenbaum 2009: 369). In addition, they have a rich hi... Read More about Wargaming (as) literature.