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Esports in Higher Education (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, June). Esports in Higher Education. Presented at British Esports Federation, Nottingham

Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
Apejoye, A., & Simpson, S. (2022). Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria. International journal of digital television (Online), https://doi.org/10.1386/jdmp_00102_1

This article provides a contribution to knowledge on the growth of online news commenting
in Nigeria. Specifically, it accounts for factors which influence the character of the often
fractious online discursive behaviour in evidence and what commun... Read More about Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria.

Sixty Artists + Ten (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Fletcher, B. Sixty Artists + Ten. [Painting]. Exhibited at Whitaker Museum. 16 June 2022 - 11 August 2022. (Unpublished)

60 artists, from a variety of different disciplines who exhibited in an exhibition in 2012 in Manchester, were invited once more to submit a drawing alongside 10 new artists invited to exhibit alongside the original 60 at The Whitaker.

The exhibit... Read More about Sixty Artists + Ten.

Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact (2022)
Thesis
Dorbayani, S. Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact. (Thesis). The University of Salford

This cross-disciplinary critique of commercially available publications and releases exemplifies aspects of my practice as I have navigated through the roles of executive consultant, adviser, international songwriter and cultural diplomat over the pa... Read More about Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact.

Designing video games for history classrooms (2022)
Book Chapter
Hiriart, J. (2022). Designing video games for history classrooms. In S. Bertoldi, & A. Mariotti (Eds.), The Past as a Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual Reality and Video Games (56-65). Oxford: Archaeopress

History is very much present in children's lives through a myriad of cultural products varying from TV shows, historical fiction books, films and video games. The latter undoubtedly has become one of the most popular engagements with the past for new... Read More about Designing video games for history classrooms.

Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon (2022)
Thesis
Alameir, H. (2022). Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon. (Thesis). University of Salford

This practice-based Ph.D. research investigates how drama filmmaking can be used as a tool to raise awareness on social matters, specifically the plight of the Kuwaiti (stateless) Bidoon. The originally scripted and produced 60-minute drama film, Whe... Read More about Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon.

The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press (2022)
Book
Price, H. (2022). The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental health has to date been relatively under-explored. Using methods... Read More about The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press.

Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela” (2022)
Journal Article
Barnes, E. (2022). Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela”. Transmotion, 8(1), 98-128

Recent scholarship outlines in no uncertain terms that the Pacific Island regions are already experiencing the effects of climate change (George 113; Bryant-Tokalau 3; Showalter, Lόpez-Carr and Ervin 50; McLeod et al, 5). It is Indigenous women in th... Read More about Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela”.

‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner (2022)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2022). ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner. English Studies in Africa, 65(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855

In her 1925 review of an edited collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters, Virginia Woolf described Schreiner as ‘too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’. Prompted by this intriguing comment, this article brings Woolf’s late-1920s writings in... Read More about ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner.

Digital Society (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, April). Digital Society. Presented at Connected North, Manchester

Podcast 2 with Alaric Searle; Ukraine - Day 58 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Searle, D. (2022). Podcast 2 with Alaric Searle; Ukraine - Day 58. [YouTube (online)]

Ed Nash discussion with Alaric Searle on the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, the significant military developments and the wider politics of the conflict.

The Future of Esports (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, April). The Future of Esports. Presented at ESIC Global Esports Summit, London

Esports and Education (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, March). Esports and Education. Presented at BETT, London

Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950 (2022)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2022). Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950. Media History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2051461

This study examines local government reporting in the English provincial press from 1900 to
1950. It has two main findings – firstly, that the press moved from verbatim council reports
in the early part of the century to selective news stories that... Read More about Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950.