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Art or science? Formulating empathy in Breaking Bad (2017)
Book Chapter
Bentham, A. (2018). Art or science? Formulating empathy in Breaking Bad. In R. Nelems, & N. Theo (Eds.), Exploring Empathy : its propagations perimeters and potentialities (161-192). Leiden: Brill

When Vince Gilligan pitched the idea for ‘Breaking Bad’ to studio bosses at AMC, his description of it as ‘a story about a man who transforms himself from Mr Chips into Scarface’ proved to be enough of a hook to take the show into production. Howeve... Read More about Art or science? Formulating empathy in Breaking Bad.

A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester (2017)
Journal Article
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.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In Experiments in Life-Writing (249-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-progress. When attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Renaissance playwright Elizabeth Cary (1584–1639) foundered, I developed an experimental form in order to accommodate... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In L. Boldrini, & J. Novak (Eds.), Experiments in Life-Writing : Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (249-272). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3_11

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-process. It unfolds a narrative of 'accidental experiment', as attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Cary (1584 – 1639) foundered. That is to say, the project did not set... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

Poems for the dance (2017)
Book
Thurston, S. (2017). Poems for the dance. Llangattock, Powys: Aquifer Books

Containing an essay, and poems, occasioned by the author’s engagement with Five Rhythms and other improvised dance and movement practices over more than a decade, Poems for the Dance is a multi-faceted enquiry into the relationship between poetry and... Read More about Poems for the dance.

Partitions special issue : introduction (2017)
Journal Article
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.

Assessing the effectiveness of virtual landscapes in field skills training (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Houghton, J. J., University of Leeds, Gordon, C. E., Robinson, A., Morgan, D. J., & Lloyd, G. E. (2017, October). Assessing the effectiveness of virtual landscapes in field skills training. Paper presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA

We are using screen-based virtual reality landscapes, created using the Unity 3D game engine, to enhance the training geoscience students receive in preparing for fieldwork. Students explore these landscapes as they would real ones, interacting with... Read More about Assessing the effectiveness of virtual landscapes in field skills training.

Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing (2017)
Book
Munslow Ong, J. (2017). Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315677507

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is... Read More about Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing.

Virtual Landscapes Exhibition (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Ali, U. Virtual Landscapes Exhibition. 19 October 2017 - 29 October 2017. (Unpublished)

From the giant mushroom forests of Morrowind, the Archipelago islands of Zelda: Wind Waker, to the tropical underground caves of Phantasy Star Online, Virtual landscapes have enthralled, captured and engaged player imaginations for over 30 years.... Read More about Virtual Landscapes Exhibition.

Interactive composition and performance framework with evolutionary computing (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Choi, I. (2017, October). Interactive composition and performance framework with evolutionary computing. Presented at 43rd International Computer Music Conference, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China

Evolutionary models such as genetic algorithms and cellular automata have been well adopted by composers. A challenge still remains in practice, how to convey the dynamics of evolution that can be perceivable through performance realization. This cha... Read More about Interactive composition and performance framework with evolutionary computing.

European Union telecommunications policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S. (2017). European Union telecommunications policy. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.128

This article explores the character and development of telecommunications policy at EU level. For most of the 20th century a matter of national governance and thus of peripheral interest to the EU, from the mid to late 1980s the EU began to develop a... Read More about European Union telecommunications policy.

Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Digital campaigning (2017)
Book Chapter
Ward, S., Gibson, R., & Cantijoch, M. (2017). Digital campaigning. In J. Fisher, E. Fieldhouse, M. Franklin, R. Gibson, M. Cantijoch, & C. Wlezien (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion (319-341). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712390

It is now over 20 years since political parties began to move online and fight elections using new internet technologies, although in most established democracies it took another decade, or more, before internet access spread to the majority of voter... Read More about Digital campaigning.

Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.