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The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2015). The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production. New Media and Society, 17(2), 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814558910

As video game development studios increasingly turn to digital crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter for financing, this article explores the ways in which these processes shape production. It examines in particular the interactions that typical... Read More about The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production.

The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe (2014)
Journal Article
Ndlovu, E. (2014). The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 35(3), 54-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2014.957225

This article contributes to the debate on the re-emergence of diasporic radio and its role in facilitating citizen journalism and political awareness in Zimbabwe. The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled o... Read More about The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe.

The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues (2014)
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Hichy, Z., Coen, S., & Di Marco, G. (2014). The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2014.914005

The aim of this study was to test the effects of religious orientations (intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest) and secularism of state on attitude towards both same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Moreover, the mediating effects of seculari... Read More about The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues.

Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal (2014)
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Hewett, R. (2014). Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34(3), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937179

It is only comparatively recently that performance in arenas other than theatre and cinema has begun to receive serious academic attention. The ‘Spaces of Television’ project and the University of York’s ‘Playing the Small Screen’ symposium have each... Read More about Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal.

An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction (2014)
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Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2014). An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction. Cultural Sociology, 8(4), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514541862

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employ... Read More about An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction.

Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments (2014)
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Davismoon, S. (2014). Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Internet), 136, 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08189-2_14

Perhaps the most significant contributions that computer and digital technologies have brought to our experience of music and sound art are to be found in the transformative effect that it has had upon auditory space and performative practice. Of cou... Read More about Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments.

Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance (2014)
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Sant, T. (2014). Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10, 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2014.912495

A special issue of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance featuring papers from the TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) working group on Documenting... Read More about Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance.

Clowns do ethnography: An experiment in long-distance comic failure (2014)
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King, B., & Talbot, R. (2014). Clowns do ethnography: An experiment in long-distance comic failure. Comedy Studies, 5(1), 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2014.905104

This paper examines the role of clowning in practice-as-research, and explores tensions between aspiration and execution in interdisciplinary projects. It draws on documentary assets (video screen grabs, photographs, texts) from a version of Euripide... Read More about Clowns do ethnography: An experiment in long-distance comic failure.

Facing to events in Ukraine : the Belarus opposition’s dilemmas (2014)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M. (2014). Facing to events in Ukraine : the Belarus opposition’s dilemmas. Regard sur l'Est (En ligne),

Should the opposition in Belarus rejoice at the events of 2013-14 in Ukraine or see them as a threat to their aspirations to affect change in Belarus? The tired mantra of President A.Lukashenka -that only he can guarantee stability in Belarus- has be... Read More about Facing to events in Ukraine : the Belarus opposition’s dilemmas.

Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework (2014)
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Rich, E., & Miah, A. (2014). Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework. Societies, 4(2), 296-315. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4020296

This paper argues on behalf of a public pedagogy approach to developing a critical understanding of digital health technologies. It begins by appraising the hitherto polarised articulations of digital innovation as either techno-utopian or techno-dys... Read More about Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework.

Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson (2014)
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Scott, M. (2014). Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson. ˜The œbottle imp, 15,

In this edited volume, Robert Lawson brings together scholars with diverse specialisms including phonology, syntax, lexicology and onomastics. Jennifer Smith's Foreword sets the scene by drawing attention to the many varieties of language encountered... Read More about Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson.

Opening up the black boxes: Media archaeology, 'anarchaeology' and media materiality (2014)
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Goddard, M. (2015). Opening up the black boxes: Media archaeology, 'anarchaeology' and media materiality. New Media and Society, 17(11), 1761-1776. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814532193

This article examines the emergent field of media archaeology as offering a materialist approach to new media and specifically the Internet, constituting a ‘travelling discipline’ or ‘indiscipline’ rather than a new disciplinary paradigm. Following t... Read More about Opening up the black boxes: Media archaeology, 'anarchaeology' and media materiality.

"Journalism and the city: Redefining the spaces of foreign correspondence" (2014)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2014). "Journalism and the city: Redefining the spaces of foreign correspondence". Journalism Studies, 15(5), 586-595. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2014.894354

Place matters a great deal in journalism, even in the era of the ‘death of geography.’ Yet space never produces effects through its existence alone. To understand the relevance of location beyond its most immediate assigned role of ‘logistic constrai... Read More about "Journalism and the city: Redefining the spaces of foreign correspondence".

Eyes and narrative perspectives on story : a practice led exploration of the use of eyes and eye lines in fiction film (2014)
Journal Article
Knudsen, E. (2014). Eyes and narrative perspectives on story : a practice led exploration of the use of eyes and eye lines in fiction film. Journal of Media Practice, 15(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2014.892798

Eyes and eye lines are one of the key ways in which the perspective on a story is established in figurative narrative fiction cinema. As such, the eyes and the use of eyes by a performer needs as much creative and technical attention as shot composit... Read More about Eyes and narrative perspectives on story : a practice led exploration of the use of eyes and eye lines in fiction film.

Coffee, cake & culture : evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the community (2014)
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Roe, B., McCormick, S., Lucas, T., Gallagher, W., Winn, A., & Elkin, S. (2016). Coffee, cake & culture : evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the community. Dementia, 15(4), 539-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214528927

Arts for health initiatives and networks are being developed in a number of countries and an international literature is emerging on the evidence of their benefits to people's health, wellbeing and quality of life. Engagement in cultural and creative... Read More about Coffee, cake & culture : evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the community.

Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’and ‘media malaise’theories of the media : an 11-nation study (2014)
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Curran, J., Coen, S., Soroka, S., Hayashi, K., Hichy, Z., Iyengar, S., …Tiffen, R. (2014). Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’and ‘media malaise’theories of the media : an 11-nation study. Journalism, 15(7), 815-833. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913520198

This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, w... Read More about Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’and ‘media malaise’theories of the media : an 11-nation study.