Outputs (360)

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.

Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an on... Read More about Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective.

Film Premier and Q&A: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) (2013)
Digital Artefact

'Many Rivers to Cross' is a Heritage Lottery funded film. It tells the story, humorous and emotional in parts, of nine people who migrated to the UK from the Caribbean in the 1950's and 1960's. They travelled with nothing but their suitcases and a fi... Read More about Film Premier and Q&A: Many Rivers to Cross (2013).

Puzzle-based games as a metaphor for designing in situ learning activities (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In situ learning activities are recently becoming of higher interest in education because they facilitate contextualized learning experiences. A particular case is the creation of learning routes containing geo-located questions. In this line, teache... Read More about Puzzle-based games as a metaphor for designing in situ learning activities.

'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online (2013)
Book Chapter

Photographed space and the (no)body (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Architecture journals present to us new buildings, pioneering ideas and triumphs of creative innovation... yet they are largely deserted. This paper argues against the negative impact of this on design culture and a resultant aspiration to design spa... Read More about Photographed space and the (no)body.

Creative Networks: Asset Mapping South Blessed (2013)
Digital Artefact

This article discusses the use of asset mapping as a cross-thematic methodology to study the value of creative citizenship in relation to creative networks.

Drawing without light (2013)
Book Chapter

Numerous videogames offer their players opportunities for the production and collection of images displayed and understood as photographs. For some the production of photograph-like images is central to the gameplay, for others it is an add-on activi... Read More about Drawing without light.

Enthusiastic facilitator, reluctant anthropologist (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After 17 years of working in community media video projects as a facilitator and later as a researcher, I felt the time was right to now reconnect with my own creative practice of photography and filmmaking. As a facilitator I was ever conscious of t... Read More about Enthusiastic facilitator, reluctant anthropologist.

Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I offer here this short commentary on a section from Technics and Time 2’s final chapter, ‘Temporal Object and Retentional Finitude’ in which Stiegler engages in a lengthy meditation on Husserl’s account of primary and secondary retention—a meditatio... Read More about Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience.

Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border (2013)
Journal Article

Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle... Read More about Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border.

The promise of the affordable artist's studio: Governing creative spaces in London (2013)
Journal Article

The role of artists' organisations in populating and popularising postindustrial urban areas is well documented. However, what are less apparent are analyses of how spaces of artistic production are organised and governed in these areas. This paper e... Read More about The promise of the affordable artist's studio: Governing creative spaces in London.