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The British State–Private Network and Way of Life Propaganda at the Anglo-Soviet Trade Fairs of 1961 (2025)
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This article explores Britain and the Soviet Union’s reciprocal exhibitions in 1961. Using methods from diplomatic and cultural history the article finds that, while typical of the cultural encounters that punctuated moments of Cold War crisis, these... Read More about The British State–Private Network and Way of Life Propaganda at the Anglo-Soviet Trade Fairs of 1961.

Understanding Vulnerabilities and ‘Pathways’ in the Commission of Sexual Offences by Autistic Individuals: Perspectives from UK-based Practitioners (2025)
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Although autistic people are no more likely to perpetrate crime compared to the general population, evidence suggests that certain types of crime, such as sexual offences, are more common among autistic individuals who do engage in crime. In recent y... Read More about Understanding Vulnerabilities and ‘Pathways’ in the Commission of Sexual Offences by Autistic Individuals: Perspectives from UK-based Practitioners.

Final Score: The Sports Chosen for Broadcast on the BBC’s Grandstand (2025)
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Television has been a dominant force in the history and development of sport media. Coverage of sport has been central in help-ing to define what television is. Many conventions in television sport were established by the BBC through its magazine pro... Read More about Final Score: The Sports Chosen for Broadcast on the BBC’s Grandstand.

Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order (2025)
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This article critically engages with the emerging "media forensic" turn at the intersection of visual culture, new media practice, and humanitarian and political activism. This field purports to subvert dominant forensic and surveillant regimes, weap... Read More about Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order.

Expanding Interactivity in Film: Emergent Narratives through VR and Spatialized Cinematic Experiences (2025)
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Common application of the term ‘interactive’ within film and cinema tends to require the creation of hyper-narratives. However, this can have implications for the viewer’s emotional connection to and experience of the film. This article argues that f... Read More about Expanding Interactivity in Film: Emergent Narratives through VR and Spatialized Cinematic Experiences.

Prototyping the Power Hall: a decision-making process (2025)
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Article Short Description: Investigating an audience-driven strategy for interactive interpretation prototyping in a science museum setting at the discovery phase of exhibition development. Abstract Interactive gallery interpretation is seen as a val... Read More about Prototyping the Power Hall: a decision-making process.

Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation (2025)
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With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirements of legal processes that exclude alternative horizons of justice and accountability. We argue that OS... Read More about Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation.

Trust without knowledge? UK intelligence agencies and the public trust conundrum (2025)
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Intelligence agencies operating in modern-day liberal democracies are dependent on the public for support. In recent years, the UK’s intelligence and security agencies have adopted a public facing role aiming to build ‘trust’ and developing wider pub... Read More about Trust without knowledge? UK intelligence agencies and the public trust conundrum.

Modern Murders: The Turn-of-the-Century’s Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder, 1880–1914 (2025)
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Normalising right-wing alternative media perspectives: A cross-national study of US and UK mainstream media systems (2025)
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In this article, we critically examine the degree to which left-wing and right-wing alternative media appeared in US and UK mainstream media. We develop a distinctive comparative approach by carrying out a comprehensive content analysis of references... Read More about Normalising right-wing alternative media perspectives: A cross-national study of US and UK mainstream media systems.

The Meloni government: consolidation and a return to politics (2025)
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The Meloni government during 2024 was characterized by unexpected stability and consolidation of its political dominance. The year 2024 marked a return to ’politics in the strict sense’, following years of anti-politics and technocratic governance, b... Read More about The Meloni government: consolidation and a return to politics.

Gait Rehabilitation for Early rheumatoid Arthritis Trial (GREAT): lessons learnt from a mixed-methods feasibility study and internal pilot trial (2025)
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The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives (2025)
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This paper explores the role of sound quality in the interpretation of demonstratives, arguing that their function is deeply connected to acoustic properties and human auditory perception. Drawing on research from psychoacoustics, sound localization,... Read More about The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives.

‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth (2025)
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Contemporary Hungarian women writers use the short form as a feminist intervention in current gender politics. Creating space in which to explore alternatives to patriarchal cultures and illiberal political movements, they deploy physical and imagina... Read More about ‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth.

Discourses of discrimination against sex workers : Analysing (banal) whorephobia through stancetaking in YouTube comments (2025)
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This paper explores how discourses of discrimination against sex workers are discursively reproduced or challenged in polylogal (multi-participant) interactions in digital environments such as YouTube. Drawing on stancetaking (Du Bois 2007) and the s... Read More about Discourses of discrimination against sex workers : Analysing (banal) whorephobia through stancetaking in YouTube comments.

Tricksterism and Indigenous Media Epistemologies: An Interview with New Red Order (2025)
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This interview with two of the core members of the Indigenous media collective New Red Order (Ojibway filmmaker Adam Khalil and Tlingit visual artist Jackson Polys, referred to as NRO hereafter), explores how their expanded multimedia practice—operat... Read More about Tricksterism and Indigenous Media Epistemologies: An Interview with New Red Order.

The News Values of Court Reporting (2025)
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Reporting the courts on behalf of the public is one of the traditional tasks of local newspapers. Yet in the UK, twin financial crises affecting both the local media market and the criminal justice system have led to concerns over the sustainability... Read More about The News Values of Court Reporting.

Art through Wikidata : a digital curation perspective (2024)
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Digital Curation Lab Director Toni Sant and the artist Enrique Tabone started collaborating on a research project exploring the visualization of specific datasets from Wikidata for artistic practice in 2019. The research was initiated by Tabone throu... Read More about Art through Wikidata : a digital curation perspective.

The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning. (2024)
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This paper presents the Cadenza Woodwind Dataset. This publicly available data is synthesised audio for woodwind quartets including renderings of each instrument in isolation. The data was created to be used as training data within Cadenza's second o... Read More about The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning..

The lasting impacts of The Walt Disney Company within and beyond the classroom: A case study (2024)
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This brief and reflective commentary piece discusses a series of outreach workshops entitled ‘Deconstructing Disney: Society, Culture, and Creativity’, which took place at Media City (University of Salford) in March 2023. The workshops were delivered... Read More about The lasting impacts of The Walt Disney Company within and beyond the classroom: A case study.