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Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2 (2009)
Journal Article
Rodriguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2009). Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2. International Journal of English Studies, 9(2), 171-174

Women in Manchester’s Edwardian parks 1900 – 1935 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
O'Reilly, C. (2009, November). Women in Manchester’s Edwardian parks 1900 – 1935. Presented at Women's Life and Leisure in the Twentieth Century, Staffordshire University

This paper examines women’s use of public parks in Edwardian Manchester. It addresses both leisure and non-leisure activities. Like many cities at this time, Manchester City Council was investing in municipal public parks, the high point of which was... Read More about Women in Manchester’s Edwardian parks 1900 – 1935.

Visible narratives (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2009, November). Visible narratives. Presented at Typographic Horizons, Birmingham City University

This project is created from digital recordings of the gesture. A Visible Narrative is the unseen path created by the pattern of gesture we make during the moment language. This is a deliberate strategy to place the focus of the viewer on images crea... Read More about Visible narratives.

New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2009, November). New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks. Presented at ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section workshop ‘New Directions for Communication Policy Research, Zurich

In May 2009, the European Commission released a draft consultation document on the application of state aid rules to broadband network deployment, leaving open the possibility of significant state aid intervention. However, this paper argues that th... Read More about New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks.

Telepresent embrace - Permanent installation exhibit for The PUBLIC Gallery (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Telepresent embrace - Permanent installation exhibit for The PUBLIC Gallery. [Interactive Art Installation]. 1 November 2009. (Unpublished)

Created by Paul Sermon (Salford, UK), Telepresent Embrace is an evolution of Paul Sermon’s work, (including Telematic Vision, which was one of the most impressive pieces in the Millennium Dome) and was therefore not created with input from local grou... Read More about Telepresent embrace - Permanent installation exhibit for The PUBLIC Gallery.

Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case studies (2009)
Book Chapter
Sermon, P. (2009). Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case studies. In S. Cubitt, & P. Thomas (Eds.), Re:Live Media Art Histories, Refereed Conference Proceedings (146-153). Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne & Victorian College of the Arts and Music

This paper aims to open up the discussion around the production, documentation and preservation of telematic practice-based research in the interactive media arts. This reflects a timely research agenda that aims to have significant implications on t... Read More about Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case studies.

An urban ecology of chance (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Peploe, G. An urban ecology of chance. 16 October 2009 - 23 October 2009. (Unpublished)

Interval presents a solo show By Daniel Staincliffe.

Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity (2009)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M., Spencer, A., & Roca, I. (2009). Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity. Linguistic Review, 9(1), 27-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.1992.9.1.27

The article examines vowel alternations in Slavic languages on the basis of Polish CVC - CC alternations mostly involving the vowel 'e'. It links the phenomenon to prosodic structures of Slavic languages and tries to resolve the issue by employing a... Read More about Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity.

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

Vainilla chip (2009)
Digital Artefact
Knudsen, E. (2009). Vainilla chip. [Film]

Set in the small Cuban town of San Antonio de los Baños, just outside Havana, Vainilla Chip tells the story of an ordinary day for an elderly ice cream maker, Javier Rodriguez Casanova. An ordinary day which, like all the other ordinary days, has bec... Read More about Vainilla chip.

Urban intersections - An interactive urban installation in contested virtual spaces (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P., Gould, C., & Appleton, P. Urban intersections - An interactive urban installation in contested virtual spaces. [Interact Media Art Installation]. 26 September 2009 - 29 September 2009. (Unpublished)

This urban exhibition project brings together three multi-user virtual environment projects, developed by members of the Situations and Collaborations between Second Life and Consensual Landscapes and Scenarios project team at the University of Salfo... Read More about Urban intersections - An interactive urban installation in contested virtual spaces.

Tears on the Silk Gown (2009)
Digital Artefact
Bekerman, M., Ivanov, T., Langford, J., & McCafferty, N. (2009). Tears on the Silk Gown. [Digital Video]

Bride Kidnapping has been a persistent problem in Kyrgyzstan and modernity has not reduced the occurrences of this practice often resorted to as a way of avoiding social class divisions or dowry requirements. In this film, this controversial custom i... Read More about Tears on the Silk Gown.

The Bully's Playground (2009)
Digital Artefact
Bekerman, M., Ivanov, T., Langford, J., & McCafferty, N. (2009). The Bully's Playground. [Digital Video]

Bullying with the use of social media caught up with Central Asian urban centres quite early in the post-Soviet transformation. With the state institutions and society lacking the awareness of the problem or the tools to tackle it, bullying and schoo... Read More about The Bully's Playground.

John Rooney: visible narratives (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Rooney, J. John Rooney: visible narratives. 14 September 2009 - 18 September 2009. (Unpublished)

An exhibition of images created by John Rooney. The work is part of an ongoing research project which aims to explore the digital trace of language and gesture

Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2009, September). Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet. Presented at 2009 European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Panel 433: ‘The EU’s Performance in International Institutions: Cross-Cutting Issues’, Potsdam, Germany

Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU’s role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the lite... Read More about Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet.

Horizons and timelines (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Heald, K., Haywood, P., & Liggett, S. (2009, September). Horizons and timelines. Presented at 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association: European Society or European Societies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Referencing three artist practices that manage the concept of the landscape from the perspective of human experience. This comparison of motive explores; perpetual memory/cultural time and space/landscape as a membrane between experiences; somet... Read More about Horizons and timelines.

Urban intersections – Panel discussion and presentations of interactive urban installations in contested virtual spaces (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P., Gould, C., & Appleton, P. (2009, August). Urban intersections – Panel discussion and presentations of interactive urban installations in contested virtual spaces. Presented at ISEA2009: The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Belfast Waterfront, University of Ulster, UK

This panel discussion and its presentations will focus of the work and theoretical debates around the public presentation of the panellist’s artworks in the proposed interactive facade projection on the Belfast Waterfront building. ISEA09 - URBAN... Read More about Urban intersections – Panel discussion and presentations of interactive urban installations in contested virtual spaces.

Switch on your mobile phone! (2009)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2009). Switch on your mobile phone!

Discussion of new mores of theatre etiquette