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Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End (2023)
Book Chapter
Minor, L. (2023). Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End. In M. Irwin, & J. Marshall (Eds.), UK and Irish Television Comedy: Nation, Region and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter explores Michaela Coel and her original TV sitcom Chewing Gum (E4, 2015-) through two key concepts: 'unruliness' (Rowe, 1995) and 'intersectionality'. The argument established initially by Kathleen Rowe - that female comic performance is... Read More about Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End.

'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

‘The Perfect Storm: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Journalists’ (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Reilly, C., & Matthews, J. (in press). ‘The Perfect Storm: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Journalists’. In Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualising Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions. Routledge

This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working lives of British broadcast and online journalists, middle and senior managers. 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted between November 2021 and January 2023 and three themes... Read More about ‘The Perfect Storm: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Journalists’.

A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary (2023)
Book Chapter
Kirby, T. A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary. In The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking: The Art of Fact (171-188). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of... Read More about A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary.

The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’ (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Reilly, C. (in press). The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’. In Histories and Legacies of Post-Industrial Cities. Routledge

This paper examines Salford’s attempt to re-invent itself as a culture and media centre with an emphasis on the role of civic identities and cultural dissonance. The spatial turn in historical and cultural studies has provoked a return to the idea of... Read More about The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’.

Better technological security solutions through human-centred design and development (2023)
Book Chapter
Wootton, A., Davey, C., Heinrich, D., & Querbach, M. (2023). Better technological security solutions through human-centred design and development. In A. Zwitter, & O. Gstrein (Eds.), Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800887374

The much-hyped potential of big data analytics to support decision-making has attracted much interest from law enforcement agencies (LEA). A number of technology solutions have been developed for police forces, marketed as predictive policing. This... Read More about Better technological security solutions through human-centred design and development.

Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. (2023)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S., & Rashid, I. (2023). Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. In M. Puppis, & C. Ali (Eds.), Public service media’s contribution to society (175–192). Goteborg: Nordicom. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855756-9

This chapter analyses recent evidence of efforts by broadcast players to move into personal mobile communications through the delivery of broadcast content to smartphones. It explores innovation strategies related to the broadcast distribution channe... Read More about Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications..