The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. (2010, October). The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments. Presented at ISMAR 2010 The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, COEX/Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Korea

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments.

Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news (2010)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2010). Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news. Journalism, 11(5), 567-588. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884910373536

This article presents an interdisciplinary model attempting to explain how news is constructed by relying on the contributions of different fields of study: News Sociology, Political Communications, International Communications, International Relatio... Read More about Comparing international coverage of 9/11 : towards an interdisciplinary explanation of the construction of news.

The autumn in Germany : a dialogue on Fassbinder and terrorism (2010)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B., & Goddard, M. (2010). The autumn in Germany : a dialogue on Fassbinder and terrorism. In A. Nouss, & F. Vighi (Eds.), Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe : Between Utopia and Nihilism. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Dialogue on film representations of terrorism and militant subjectivities

The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2010, September). The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales. Presented at LeNS Conference: Sustainability in Design: Now! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century., Bangalore, India

The paper examines the relationship between design and sustainability in a policy context of sustainable development, in Wales, UK, a devolved Government with a legal remit to sustainable development. A case study approach has been used alongside g... Read More about The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales.

Liberate your Avatar; The Revolution will be social networked (Consciousness Reframed 11) (2010)
Book Chapter
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. (2010). Liberate your Avatar; The Revolution will be social networked (Consciousness Reframed 11). In R. Ascott, E. Gangvik, & M. Jahrmann (Eds.), Making Reality Really Real (181-183). Trondheim, Norway: TEKS Publishing

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual en... Read More about Liberate your Avatar; The Revolution will be social networked (Consciousness Reframed 11).

Neither/nor (2010)
Exhibition / Performance
Ayliffe, M., Cleary, C., Fletcher, B., Harris, S., & Payne, A. Neither/nor. 15 September 2010 - 30 September 2010. (Unpublished)

The artists featured in Neither/Nor explore painting as an experimental site in which the traditional criteria by which painting has come to be defined have all but been expunged. Painting that is neither/nor. The artists re-examine the philosophic... Read More about Neither/nor.

Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sihvonen, M., & Simpson, S. (2010, September). Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK. Presented at Reinterpretations of the Public Enterprise (RIPE) conference ‘Public Service Media After the Recession’, University of Westminister, London

This paper explores recent patterns of minority interest television programming in Finland and the UK and their implications for future public service broadcasting (PSB) environments. The provision of resources to cater for minority interests of va... Read More about Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK.

Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Archetti, C. (2010, September). Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change. Presented at American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Convention, Washington, DC

Based on a range of interviews with foreign diplomats in London, the paper explains the considerable variation in the way communication technologies both affect diplomatic practices and are appropriated by diplomats to pursue the respective countries... Read More about Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change.

Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case (2010)
Book Chapter
Sermon, P. (2010). Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case. In H. Gardine, & C. Gere (Eds.), Art Practice in a Digital Culture (153-164). Ashgate Publishing

This chapter focuses on the production, documentation and preservation of the author’s telematic, practice-based research in the interactive media arts. It reflects a timely practice review with significant implications for the future of exhibiting a... Read More about Telematic practice and research discourses: Three practice-based research project case.

Review of Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Anna Sfardini, Politica Pop: Da “Porta a Porta” a l’ “Isola dei Famosi” (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010) (2010)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2010). Review of Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Anna Sfardini, Politica Pop: Da “Porta a Porta” a l’ “Isola dei Famosi” (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010). Bulletin of Italian politics, 2(1), 196-198

From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks (2010)
Presentation / Conference
O'Reilly, C. (2010, September). From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks. Presented at City and Society in European History: Conference of the European Association for Urban History, Ghent, Belgium

This paper examines the evolution of the municipal public park in Manchester from the Victorian people’s park to the Edwardian (and later) citizen’s park. The linguistic shift from the people to the citizen is mirrored in the change of emphasis from... Read More about From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks.

Chaste glances signify missed chances (2010)
Journal Article
Fletcher, B. (2010). Chaste glances signify missed chances. Interface,

Magazine Article/Exhibition Review/Interface

The international political economy of work and employability (2010)
Book
Moore, P. (2010). The international political economy of work and employability. Palgrave Macmillan

The dominant themes of flexibilisation and restructuring at all levels of corporate and global change have had a dramatic impact on the concept of what makes people 'employable' at a time of ongoing expansion of neoliberal capitalism. This contempora... Read More about The international political economy of work and employability.

Explaining news : national politics and journalistic cultures in global context (2010)
Book
Archetti, C. (2010). Explaining news : national politics and journalistic cultures in global context. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109667

Is globalization leading to a worldwide homogenization of news? Is news shaped by political spin? Or is news controlled by the professionals who produce it? By systematically testing a range of theories, this book demonstrates the inability of curren... Read More about Explaining news : national politics and journalistic cultures in global context.

Sloths of Office: The Mid-life Crisis of Hollywood's Democrats, Part 1 (2010)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2010). Sloths of Office: The Mid-life Crisis of Hollywood's Democrats, Part 1. Film International, 8(4), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1386/fiin.8.4.19

An examination of the representation of Democratic politicians in Hollywood films from the late 1990s to the present. This is a two part article.

The polaroid image as photo-object (2010)
Journal Article
Buse, P. (2010). The polaroid image as photo-object. Journal of Visual Culture, 9(2), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412910372754

This article is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research done at the Polaroid Corporate archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself. It identifies two cultural practices engendered by P... Read More about The polaroid image as photo-object.

The narrative of creativity in the city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). The narrative of creativity in the city. Presented at PARC North West, Manchester Metropolitan University

The subject is to study expression of creativity in the city with the recording of the creative gesture presented as visible narratives. The first phase will focus on Manchester and Salford. Both cities are locations are significant centres for cultu... Read More about The narrative of creativity in the city.

Recording the creative gesture (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). Recording the creative gesture. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London

Visible Narratives The digital pathway of gesture 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 st... Read More about Recording the creative gesture.

Disco Galactica : futures past and present (2010)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2010). Disco Galactica : futures past and present. In R. Kaveney, & J. Stoy (Eds.), Battlestar Galactica: Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel (81-109). London, UK: I B Tauris/Bloomsbury

An examination of the sexual politics and ideological framings of the original and recent versions of the American television series Battlestar Galactica.

Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat (2010)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2010). Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 1(2), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1386/seec.1.2.197_1

This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering... Read More about Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat.