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A torture-free cyber space : a human right (2017)
Journal Article
Newbery, S., & Dehghantanha, A. (2017). A torture-free cyber space : a human right. Computer Fraud and Security, 2017(11), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1361-3723%2817%2930083-0

Definitions of torture range from the emotive to the legal. The media sometimes uses the term in a loose or informal sense – for example, to refer to the pain felt when one's sports team loses a crucial game. This dangerous practice detracts from the... Read More about A torture-free cyber space : a human right.

Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom (2017)
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Hart, A. (2017). Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. London Review of Education, 15(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.15.3.06

This paper presents an ongoing project to develop a freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. The national curriculum for music at Key Stages 1 and 2 calls for students to 'compose music for a range of purposes using the inter... Read More about Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom.

Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art (2017)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2017). Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art. Third Text, 31(2-3), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1371917

This paper proposes an expansion of the field of South Asian Partition Studies to include the work of globally dispersed diasporic artists. Undertaking a detailed study of the work of three contemporary artists, Nilofar Akmut, Zarina Bhimji, and Navi... Read More about Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art.

'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus (2017)
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Talbot, R. (2017). 'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus. Performance Research, 22(6), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2017.1412654

Give Me Your Love by Jon Haynes and David Woods, Artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus, is the second in a trilogy Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love, to be presented in 2018, a series of plays investigating innovative mental health therapies. Give Me Y... Read More about 'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus.

A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester (2017)
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O'Reilly, C. (2017). A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester. Landscape History, 38(2), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2017.1394066

This paper examines the decision to locate the façade of Manchester’s old Town Hall in a public park (Heaton Park) in 1912. It argues that, in so doing, the city’s Parks and Cemeteries committee was attempting to refine the didactic space of the park... Read More about A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester.

Partitions special issue : introduction (2017)
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Correia, A., & Eaton, N. (2017). Partitions special issue : introduction. Third Text, 31(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1385909

This introduction examines the contested histories of Partitions in South Asia with an emphasis on memory and the line, the map and the museum. The map is read variously as a decolonial device through the works of contemporary artists such as Gulammo... Read More about Partitions special issue : introduction.

Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks (2017)
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Choi, I., & Bargar, R. (2017). Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks. Journal of multimedia information system, 4(3), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.9717/JMIS.2017.4.3.123

Personalized media includes user-targeted and user-generated content (UGC) exchanged through social media and interactive applications. The increased consumption of UGC presents challenges and opportunities to multimedia information systems. We work... Read More about Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks.

Theo Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and Oi Kynigoi/The Hunters (1977) and how they affect the Brechtian Project (2017)
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Kosmidou, S. (2017). Theo Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and Oi Kynigoi/The Hunters (1977) and how they affect the Brechtian Project. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 35(2), 513-538. https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2017.0029

Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players (1975) and The Hunters (1977) have been widely characterized as Brechtian mainly because of the filmmak¬er’s use of defamiliarization effects (V-effects) and the disrupted chronology in these films, but with... Read More about Theo Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and Oi Kynigoi/The Hunters (1977) and how they affect the Brechtian Project.

Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences (2017)
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McMurtry, L. (2017). Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 24(2), 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1296448

Imagery generation in dramatized audio drama is still poorly understood with the majority of work having been done from a radio advertising perspective. This study sought to understand audio drama imagery generation by using teenage listeners. The st... Read More about Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences.

The ballad of Isosceles : artist's pages (2017)
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Matthews, A. (2017). The ballad of Isosceles : artist's pages. Performance Research, 22(3), 114-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2017.1348591

The triangle is no Gestalt. The real structures are intersubjective. They cannot be localized anywhere; the triangle has no reality anywhere; it is a systematic metaphor, systematically pursued.– René Girard The Ballad of Isosceles is a performa... Read More about The ballad of Isosceles : artist's pages.

Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages (2017)
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Beattie, G., Marselle, M., McGuire, L., & Litchfield, D. (2017). Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages. Semiotica, 2017(218), https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0074

There is considerable concern that the public are not getting the message about climate change. One possible explanation is ‘optimism bias’, where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the like... Read More about Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages.

Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context (2017)
Journal Article
Alshehri, E., & Etherington, M. (2017). Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context. International Journal of English Language Education, 5(2), 46-82. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijele.v5i2.11727

Motivation plays a significant role in the L2 learning process, leading many researchers to investigate strategies which can generate and maintain students' motivation in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. However, little research has in... Read More about Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context.

Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Miah, A. (2017). Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement. NanoEthics, 11(2), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-017-0302-9

This paper develops a fourth model of public engagement with science, grounded in the principle of nurturing scientific agency through online participatory bioethics. It argues that social media is an effective device through which to enable such eng... Read More about Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement.

“Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights (2017)
Journal Article
new frights. Palgrave Communications, 3, 17075. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.75

During the last ten years the ever-fertile horror and Gothic genres have birthed a new type of fright-fiction: podcast horror. Podcast horror is a narrative horror form based in audio media and the properties of sound. Despite association with oral... Read More about “Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights.

Riddle 65 : a commentary (2017)
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Kendall, J. (2017). Riddle 65 : a commentary

A commentary on my translation of the Old English riddle 65 into modern English, published in the RIddle Ages blog.

Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer (2017)
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Wilkie, I. (2017). Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2017.1343971

This article will attempt to reposition comic eccentric dance as a metamorphic form that still, surprisingly, exists, and is to be found with reasonable ubiquity, in renewed incarna-tions within twenty first century media. Tracing the origins of co... Read More about Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer.

‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture (2017)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2017). ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture. Études irlandaises, 42-1, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5183

This essay considers the representation of pleasure in three “post”-conflict Northern Irish texts: Glenn Patterson’s novel The Rest Just Follows (2014), Billy Cowan’s play Still Ill (2014) and Lucy Caldwell’s short story collection Multitudes (2016).... Read More about ‘Bubbles of joy’ : moments of pleasure in recent Northern Irish culture.