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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.

Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless (2019)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2019). Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless

By calling an early election, government and parliament have effectively breached both the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. The implications of this outcome are significant and suggest that the act is unlikely to survive another l... Read More about Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless.

Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz (2019)
Journal Article
Sykes, T., & Poutiainen, A. (2020). Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz. Jazz Research Journal, 13(1-2), 151-177. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.37944

The violin has been played in jazz from the beginning of the music's history, and yet ithas, until relatively recently, been somewhat neglected as a significant jazz instrumentin terms of both performance and education. One style of jazz in which the... Read More about Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.