Outputs (14)

“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
Journal Article

Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper assesses the political and global security implications of the use of automated weapon systems by several advanced industrial powers through a critical frame informed by the work of Bernard Stiegler, Gregoire Chamayou, Derek Gregory and ot... Read More about The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity.

Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation shares the approach and findings of a case study that explored how ‘South Blessed’, an informal youth network of creative citizens in Bristol, generates value through its activities. South Blessed showcases a diversity of young, cre... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

Drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper (for General Organology conference, http://nootechnics.org/ ) will explore the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so in relation to Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach t... Read More about Drones and global technicity.

The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the text of a keynote presentation at the Philsophy of Computer Games 8: Freedom in Play conference held at Bilgi University, Istanbul in November 2014. It considers the implications of Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technology for a critic... Read More about The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity.

Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This session shares the work of the Creative Citizens strand that set out to investigate the impact of informal creative networks on their communities. In Bristol we worked with the network of young people that work around the very informal South Ble... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play (2014)
Book

This book is about play with, in, and around, digital media in everyday life. Building on detailed case studies it explores the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in... Read More about Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play.

The bold agency of making something out of nothing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From slave trade tours, music videos, activist documentary and independent journalism, Bristol has a vibrant tradition of DIY culture which links creativity to civic engagement and personal and social impacts. This talk draws on a range of examples... Read More about The bold agency of making something out of nothing.

Technology, technicity and time: Reanimating old questions for film and media theory in the wake of Stiegler’s philosophical activism (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the text of the keynote speech at the Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, May 2014. Stiegler's philosophy of technology and of media is examined for its potential to contribute to a reformulation of film and media studies in... Read More about Technology, technicity and time: Reanimating old questions for film and media theory in the wake of Stiegler’s philosophical activism.

Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation (2014)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I take the book’s title at face value and examine emergent documentary practices within the ecosystems of the digital media landscape. Thinking ecologically suggests we look at big pictures, at the whole assemblage of agents that cons... Read More about Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation.

The Lawes of the Marches (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

One of the most complete documents of the ancient Anglo/Scottish Common Rides, The Lawes of the Marches follows the political/social border and how the landscape between England and Scotland is and was acted out during the 2014 Referendum vote.These... Read More about The Lawes of the Marches.

Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores significant collaborative, interactive documentary practices that are emerging in the context of digital culture, and situates these emerging practices in relation to the counter-history within documentary in which subjects have... Read More about Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship.

Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

South Blessed is a community media operation based in Bristol, specialising in Hip Hop music videos, activist documentary, and live topical debates streamed online. The editorial ethos of South Blessed is one of promotion of talent and opinion from... Read More about Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises.

Interactive documentary (2014)
Book Chapter

Interactive documentary is a term used to describe the new possibilities for both the construction and representation of reality brought about by the human–computer interface. For a documentary to be interactive in this context, a physical action nee... Read More about Interactive documentary.