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Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identities (2012)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2012). Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identities. #Journal not on list, 13, 115-131

This paper examines the linguistic identities of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, and the contexts in which they are currently used. The city is known by a range of different names that are linked with its historical and contemporary identities as... Read More about Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identities.

The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium (2012)
Journal Article
Matthews, A. (2012). The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium. Performing Ethos, 3(2), 121-137. https://doi.org/10.1386/peet.3.2.121_1

This article proposes that by focusing on the professional complications of working in one-to-one encounters outside of the nominally aesthetic realm, performance-makers and researchers might discover ways of either mimicking or rupturing the form’s... Read More about The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium.

The emergence of the techno-elite audience and free/open source content : a case study on BBC Backstage (2012)
Journal Article
Lin, Y. (2012). The emergence of the techno-elite audience and free/open source content : a case study on BBC Backstage. Particip@tions, 9(2), 597-613

This paper, through a case study on the BBC Backstage project, argues that the continuing convergence of media and ICT sectors has encouraged a powerful elite audience group to emerge – what I term “techno elite” in this paper. The techno elite usual... Read More about The emergence of the techno-elite audience and free/open source content : a case study on BBC Backstage.

me-but-not-me: Teaching the digital double (2012)
Journal Article
Oliver, M. (2012). me-but-not-me: Teaching the digital double. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 8(2), 185-200. https://doi.org/10.1386/padm.8.2.189_1

Written from a practice-as-research perspective, this paper focuses on the importance of teaching the technique of the ‘digital double’ in multimedia performance. It offers a summary of the key theorists who assist in our interpretation and understan... Read More about me-but-not-me: Teaching the digital double.

Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance (2012)
Journal Article
governance. Comparative European Politics, 12(1), 54-75. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33

This article evaluates the European Union’s (EU) influence in shaping
the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analysing
EU behaviour within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external
opportunity structur... Read More about Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance.

Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states (2012)
Journal Article
Chiva, M. (2014). Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states. Parliamentary Affairs, 67(2), 458-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss047

The paper investigates women's representation in the European Parliament delegations of the new member states by bringing together three distinct strands of scholarship: the second-order elections model, feminist theories of candidate recruitment and... Read More about Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states.

Profiles and characters : evolution of the representation of the user in social networks and role-playing games (2012)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2012). Profiles and characters : evolution of the representation of the user in social networks and role-playing games. SEECI 2000 (Internet), XVI(28), 30-48. https://doi.org/10.15198/seeci.2012.28.30-48

Role-playing games -along with social networks- have become the most popular
leisure activity online. This paper locates the origin of these web platforms in the
digital evolution of collaborative narratives and role-playing games. In order to do s... Read More about Profiles and characters : evolution of the representation of the user in social networks and role-playing games.

The Darkest Corner: documenting institutional abuse and its consequences at the Abbey Theatre (2012)
Journal Article
McCormick, S. (2012). The Darkest Corner: documenting institutional abuse and its consequences at the Abbey Theatre. Irish Studies Review, 20(2), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2012.679216

Documentary theatre, as a theatrical genre, has not maintained a continuous presence in Irish theatre. The Darkest Corner series, produced in 2010 by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland's National Theatre is, therefore, one of the first examples of Ir... Read More about The Darkest Corner: documenting institutional abuse and its consequences at the Abbey Theatre.

Geolocation and voting : candidate-voter distance effects on party choice in the 2010 UK general election in England (2012)
Journal Article
Arzheimer, K., & Evans, J. (2012). Geolocation and voting : candidate-voter distance effects on party choice in the 2010 UK general election in England. Political Geography, 31(5), 301-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.04.006

The effect of geographical distance between candidate and voter on vote-likelihood in the UK is essentially untested. In systems where constituency representatives vie for local inhabitants' support in elections, candidates living closer to a voter w... Read More about Geolocation and voting : candidate-voter distance effects on party choice in the 2010 UK general election in England.

The development of the EU asylum policy : venue-shopping in perspective (2012)
Journal Article
perspective. Journal of European Public Policy, 19(9), 1396-1413. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2012.677191

The development of the EU asylum and migration policy is often explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by policy-makers to an EU policy venue in order to avoid national constraints. This article demonstrates
that, contrary to... Read More about The development of the EU asylum policy : venue-shopping in perspective.

Typed art (2012)
Journal Article
Handyside, S. (2012). Typed art

Blank Media Collective champions emerging artists, writers, musicians and performers by giving them a unique platform to showcase their work.

The article relates to the recent Type Tarts Exhibition held in the University of Salford Media City comp... Read More about Typed art.