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Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2019). Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama. Studies in Comics, 10(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00004_1

This article responds to McCloud’s theoretical framework for comics and applies this framework to audio drama, which I argue is, like comics, a mono-sensory medium (one can only be seen in static image and the other can only be heard); both require a... Read More about Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama.

Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s (2019)
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Correia, A. (2019). Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s. British Art Studies, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/acorreia/000

This paper narrates the author’s research methodologies and findings relating to her ongoing project, Articulating British Asian Art Histories. With a specific focus on four exhibitions of South Asian women artists during the 1980s and early 1990s, i... Read More about Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
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Rich, E., Miah, A., & Lewis, S. (2019). Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(S1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12980

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics (2019)
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Bull, M. (2019). Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics

The UK was once viewed by political scientists as embodying a distinct majoritarian form of politics – the ‘Westminster Model’ – that stood in contrast to the ‘consensus’ democracies found elsewhere in Europe. Several of the countries in the latter g... Read More about Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics.

A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum (2019)
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Ward, S., McLoughlin, L., Southern, R., & Gibson, R. (2020). A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum. Information Polity, 25(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-190140

This paper examines the structure of Twitter communication networks between MPs during the 2016 EU Referendum campaign. In particular, the research examines the impact of Twitter in two dimensions: (1) how far social media might facilitate inter-part... Read More about A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum.

The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum (2019)
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Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2021). The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum. Information, Communication and Society, 24(4), 576-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1662072

Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a parti... Read More about The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum.

Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning (2019)
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Prokopic, P. (2019). Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning. ˜The œinternational journal of creative media research, https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.17

Affective Cinema is an AHRC-funded practice research project in film, informed by art cinema, experimental film traditions, film theory and philosophy. The outcomes of the research are films that combine aspects of cinematic style, nuances of perform... Read More about Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning.

Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience (2019)
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experience. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 10(1&2), https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.10.1-2.1_1

At first glance, silent film and audio drama may appear antithetical modes of expression. Nevertheless, an interesting tradition of silent film-to-radio adapta-tions has emerged on BBC Radio Drama. Beyond this link between silent... Read More about Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience.

Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945 (2019)
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Lomas, D. (2020). Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945. International History Review, 42(4), 794-812. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1650092

This article uses the inter-war and wartime career of Anthony Eden, as a vehicle to understand the little understood relationship between secret intelligence, British Foreign Secretaries and the Foreign Office. While secret intelligence is no longer... Read More about Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945.

“Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968 (2019)
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Lomas, D. (2021). “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 49(1), 148-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1648231

In July 2018, the UK’s Intelligence & Security Committee issued a report into diversity and inclusion across the intelligence and security community. The picture the report painted was far from satisfactory; in short, Britain’s intelligence agencies... Read More about “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968.

Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study (2019)
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Coen, S., Fantinelli, S., & Drumm, I. (2019). Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study. Human Affairs, 29(3), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0028

This pilot study examined the idea that use of a mobile technology can have positive consequences for both individual users and, indirectly, for society. The augmented reality (AR) application used is defined as persuasive technology, because it is i... Read More about Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study.

Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
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Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

Thatcher breaks consensus (2019)
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Williams, B. (2019). Thatcher breaks consensus. History today, 69(7), 76-81

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. When asked who has been the most controversial and radical postwar British prime minister, many historians and academics incline towards Margaret Thatcher. Taking offi... Read More about Thatcher breaks consensus.

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun (2019)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 940-942. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019856868

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun

Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture (2019)
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Smith, A. (2019). Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623500

This article examines the specificities of long-from improvised comedy performance (that is, long-from improv) within podcasting. It demonstrates how the podcast medium’s technologies, together with related cultural conventions, motivate performers t... Read More about Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
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Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry (2019)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry. Arts, 8(2), 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020057

This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as... Read More about Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry.