Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner (2014)
Book Chapter

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Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.

Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO (2014)
Book Chapter

It is generally recognized that the pleasures of LEGO do not end once the instructions in a particular set have been followed and the model depicted on the box is accurately realized. Generations of children have —just as the manufacturers intended—... Read More about Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO.

'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders' (2014)
Journal Article

This contribution is aimed at discussing different current policies of convergence as well as questioning whether these exploit the opportunities of digital media to their full potential, especially with regard to transmedia storytelling, interactivi... Read More about 'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders'.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
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Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.

Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change (2014)
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Problem, research strategy, and findings: There is a conflict between recent creative placemaking policies intended to promote positive neighborhood development through the arts and the fact that the arts have long been cited as contributing to gentr... Read More about Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change.