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Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio (2022)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2022). Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio. Gothic Studies, 24(2), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0131

Horror and the Gothic have long been staple genres of radio drama, including the radio drama revival series of the late 1970s–early 1980s, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–82). During the same time period, the Canadian government, recognising an emerg... Read More about Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio.

Draghi's very Italian fall (2022)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2022). Draghi's very Italian fall

The resignation on 21 July 2022 of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was a classic example of the machinations of Italian politics. The outcome of a manufactured crisis and a manipulation of events by the parties of the right, Draghi’s fall was nei... Read More about Draghi's very Italian fall.

Where did you go?! Trans-diegetic address and formal innovation in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television series Fleabag (2022)
Journal Article

The article examines formal innovation, authorship and representation within Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television series Fleabag (2016–2019). Through close examination of the developed use of direct address within the programme, in particular two key mo... Read More about Where did you go?! Trans-diegetic address and formal innovation in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television series Fleabag.

From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s (2022)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2022). From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s. Contemporary British History, 36(3), 459-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987

This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE)
attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that
WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary... Read More about From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s.

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.

Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore (2022)
Journal Article
Sant, T. (2022). Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore. #Journal not on list, 171(2), 92–104. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.171.0092

The early online works of American artists Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore, presented separately, draw heavily on their own art practice in terms of method, beyond the specific erotic content they produced, which was not too different from their offli... Read More about Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore.

Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela” (2022)
Journal Article

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”.

Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon (2022)
Journal Article
Brian Smith, P., & Watson, R. (2023). Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon. Media, Culture and Society, 45(1), 36-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221088954

This article focuses on new media technologies and practices that are reshaping how human rights media activism is practiced, disseminated and received. Through an examination of two works by the research agency Forensic Architecture, we examine how... Read More about Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon.

The Beveridge Report at 80 (2022)
Journal Article

Kevin Hickson and Ben Williams trace the modern history of
a foundational moment in the Britain’s welfare state: the 1942
Beveridge Report.

Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950 (2022)
Journal Article

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.