Outputs (360)

Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fundamental questions of future urban development can only be addressed when municipal administrations work alongside civic society. Civic and production labs – along with think tanks – increasingly come into play, shaping new forms and approaches to... Read More about Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy.

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.

Words we never wrote (2018)
Other

Words We Never Wrote addresses an emergent quality of ambient works. It constructs a non-linear experiential narrative within a bookended structure, asking its audience to engage with a physical ‘marker’ too - a series of built artworks (WWNW) and a... Read More about Words we never wrote.

Visualising love: Disrupting migrant datafication (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Amid rapidly tightening immigration control by powerful nation states, migrants are increasingly subject to data discrimination, not least through processes of border management that exact individuals’ information for the purpose of social sorting an... Read More about Visualising love: Disrupting migrant datafication.

Playing with reality: A technocultural ethnography of pervasive gaming (2018)
Thesis

Pervasive games are an experimental game design practice that engages with technology development and everyday space. These experiences range from technology experiments to avant-garde performances to explorative urban play. This PhD is an ethnograph... Read More about Playing with reality: A technocultural ethnography of pervasive gaming.

"Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent (2018)
Thesis

In this thesis I argue that the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction can be viewed as a form of cultural activism.

Using a combination of traditional, digital and autoethnography, as well as discourse analysis, I trace engag... Read More about "Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent.

Radio as a Screen Medium in BBC Arts Broadcasting (2018)
Journal Article

Today more than half of all radio listening in the UK is occurring through digital platforms. Within this context the BBC’s current arts proposition provides a valuable insight into how public service broadcasters are adapting and responding to this... Read More about Radio as a Screen Medium in BBC Arts Broadcasting.

'We are women, we are strong': Celebrating the unsung heroines of the miners' strike (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine

Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects (2018)
Journal Article

Young children tend to use mobile devices for solitary media consumption, yet they develop through social interactions. The presence of tangible objects in Bear Abouts invited imaginative play in a triangulation between device and child, and between... Read More about Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects.

Breaking the generic mould? Grayson Perry, Channel 4 and the production of British arts television (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. This article examines Channel 4’s critically acclaimed series, Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (2014). Using interviews with those involved in making the series and textual analysis, we argue that the elements that contribut... Read More about Breaking the generic mould? Grayson Perry, Channel 4 and the production of British arts television.

Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This essay draws on research undertaken as part of a research network project exploring the growth of independent game producers in recent years and the associated changes in the technological and economic conditions of the game... Read More about Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch.

‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the Omegaverse–a subgenre of sexually explicit fanfiction–and its engagement with issues of socially constructed power differentials and sexual consent. I a... Read More about ‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent.

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

MTCD – A visual anthology of my machine life (2018)
Digital Artefact

A live performance and a personal, auto-ethnographic reflection on the uses, misuses, and abuses of technology: artist and researcher Teresa Dillon expands her narrative by taking cues from one “machine” from each year of her life. From radios to hom... Read More about MTCD – A visual anthology of my machine life.

Inactionable/Unspeakable: Bisexuality in the Workplace (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. In this article I argue that inclusion of bisexual employees in workplace contexts is hindered by the interaction of two key factors. On the one hand, bisexuality is frequently “invisible” diversity based predomi... Read More about Inactionable/Unspeakable: Bisexuality in the Workplace.

The European producer: Simon Perry (2018)
Journal Article

This is the first detailed interview with Simon Perry, an important independent producer and who was CEO of British Screen from 1991-2000 during which he help to support a range of British films that would otherwise not have been produced. Perry was... Read More about The European producer: Simon Perry.

Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality (2018)
Journal Article

Surveying the contemporary nonfiction work being developed within the framework of VR, an opposition emerges between the promise of VR as escape from materiality and a promise of corporeal engagement. In this article, I consider how this opposition b... Read More about Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality.

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.

Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol (2017)
Physical Artefact

The Looking For Archie Walking Tour of Cary Grant's Bristol was first developed in 2017 as part of the Being Human Festival . Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, but many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continu... Read More about Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Journal Article

This article draws on repair practices within the arts, media and academia. Taking Mierle Laderman Ukeles, MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART 1969! as a starting point the paper discusses what Schulz (2017) has referred to as the ‘turn’ towards repair. Em... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.