School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments (2014)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Review of Jon Moran, ‘From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan : British military intelligence operations, ethics and human rights’ (2014)
Journal Article
Newbery, S. (2015). Review of Jon Moran, ‘From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan : British military intelligence operations, ethics and human rights’. Journal of Intelligence History, 14(1), 75-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2014.931655

Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Peploe, G. (2014, June). Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption. Presented at Digital Humanities, 4th Annual Research Conference., Nottingham & Trent University, UK

The future is creative, digital, collaborative & very very messy.

“The next 30 years will be the most disruptive we’ve ever seen.” Mark Stevenson.

Companies fewer than 2 years old with less than 20 employees can bankrupt titans who’ve existed... Read More about Fast forward through the rear view mirror. Navigating disruption.

Facing to events in Ukraine : the Belarus opposition’s dilemmas (2014)
Journal Article

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.

Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood (2014)
Thesis
Gargani, A. Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood. (Thesis). University of Salford

In this thesis I develop a pragmatic account of how similes are understood within the framework of relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995). Similes, or ‘poetic comparisons’, (Achilles is like a lion) and non-poetic comparisons (Wasabi is like mus... Read More about Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood.

Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall (2014)
Other
Peters, L. (2014). Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall. The Conversation

The untimely death of me old mucker Rik Mayall last week has prompted a plethora of obituaries in the press and on television and radio. However, as someone who “nearly” grew up with Rik at Manchester University in the mid-1970s (we never quite made... Read More about Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall.

Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood (2014)
Thesis
Gargani, A. Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood. (Thesis). University of Salford

In this thesis I develop a pragmatic account of how similes are understood within the framework of relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995). Similes, or ‘poetic comparisons’, (Achilles is like a lion) and non-poetic comparisons (Wasabi is like mus... Read More about Poetic comparisons : how similes are understood.

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