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Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair (2019)
Journal Article
Murphy, C. (2019). Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair. Intelligence and National Security, 34(5), 668-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1595466

While there is a considerable literature that considers post-1945 British intelligence
historiography, little attention has been given to non-print media, such as factual
depictions of intelligence affairs broadcast on television or radio. Using pr... Read More about Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair.

Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2019). Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping. In J. Lightfoot, M. Hubal, & S. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics (463-474). Abingdon, UK: Routledge

News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels (2019)
Thesis
Alabdalkarim, S. (in press). News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels. (Thesis). University of Salford

This research is an attempt to examine the use of news programmes as a means of branding television news channels in the Arab World. The researcher used a quantitative content analysis of the news programmes as well as semi-structured interviews with... Read More about News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels.

Risk management in microfinance : identities, perceptions, behaviours and interests of microfinance stakeholders in Plateau State, Nigeria (2019)
Thesis
Danaan, V. (in press). Risk management in microfinance : identities, perceptions, behaviours and interests of microfinance stakeholders in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Salford

Studies on microfinance risk management in Nigeria are inclined to quantitative analysis of risk based on business and accounting principles without recourse to understanding and interpreting meanings from the lived experiences of relevant stakeholde... Read More about Risk management in microfinance : identities, perceptions, behaviours and interests of microfinance stakeholders in Plateau State, Nigeria.

Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’ (2019)
Journal Article
Price, H., & Wilson, J. (2019). Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’. Language and Literature, 28(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827074

‘Emotional Weather Report’ is a song by Tom Waits from his 1975 album, Nighthawks at the Diner. ‘Nighthawk’ is a US colloquial term popularised by its use in the title of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting ‘Nighthawks’, which depicts a nocturnal scene in... Read More about Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
Book
McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.

The ‘rising power’ status and the evolution of international order : conceptualising Russia’s Syria policies (2019)
Journal Article
Pieper, M. (2019). The ‘rising power’ status and the evolution of international order : conceptualising Russia’s Syria policies. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(3), 365-387. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1575950

Taking Syria’s armed conflict as a case study to illustrate processes of normative contestation in international relations, this paper is interested in re-examining the typology of Russia as a ‘rising power’ to account for ‘rise’ in a non-material di... Read More about The ‘rising power’ status and the evolution of international order : conceptualising Russia’s Syria policies.

Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2019). Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations. In R. Coulter (Ed.), Susan MacWilliam : Modern Experiments. Banbridge, Northern Ireland: F.E. McWilliam Gallery

An essay discussing artist Susan MacWilliam's video work. Essay to be published in the forthcoming monograph "Modern Experiments" published by F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge.

Branding, authorship and transmedia adaptation in the official products of Studio Ghibli : the "Miyazaki style" in the video games of Ni No Kuni saga (2011-2018) (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Branding, authorship and transmedia adaptation in the official products of Studio Ghibli : the "Miyazaki style" in the video games of Ni No Kuni saga (2011-2018). Con A de animación, 9, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.4995/caa.2019.11337

Anime is frequently the origin of media-mixes, that is, strategies of production and distribution of transmedia products in the Japanese global markets. Synergies can be formed through collaborative authorships and transmedia adaptations. While there... Read More about Branding, authorship and transmedia adaptation in the official products of Studio Ghibli : the "Miyazaki style" in the video games of Ni No Kuni saga (2011-2018).

Austerity Britain – a brief history (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2019). Austerity Britain – a brief history. Political Insight, 10(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905819838148

Austerity has been a recurring theme of post-war British politics, from the 1950s right up to the present day. But with voters increasingly weary after a decade of public spending reduction, Ben Williams looks back on the modern history of austerity.

Ideologies of American foreign policy (2019)
Book
Callaghan, J., O'Connor, B., & Phythian, M. (2019). Ideologies of American foreign policy. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a glo... Read More about Ideologies of American foreign policy.

Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword (2019)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2019). Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword. In K. Mithcell, & N. Williams (Eds.), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s. Edinburgh University Press

The foregoing chapters of this book present a full gallery of 1960s British experimental writing from the relatively popular to the more obscure. Not only do these essays start to redress a gender imbalance in awareness of experimental writers but th... Read More about Not the last word on the Sixties Avant-Garde : an afterword.

Socially networked heterogeneity : the influence of WhatsApp as a social networking site on polarisation in Kenya (2019)
Journal Article
Kibet, A., & Ward, S. (2019). Socially networked heterogeneity : the influence of WhatsApp as a social networking site on polarisation in Kenya. African Journalism Studies, 39(4), 42-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2018.1537979

Using a cross-sectional survey of two sampled counties in Kenya, this article analyses whether social networking sites reflect social network heterogeneity. It then examines how social network heterogeneity influences polarisation in Kenya. Three typ... Read More about Socially networked heterogeneity : the influence of WhatsApp as a social networking site on polarisation in Kenya.