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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..

Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma (2024)
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Newsome, R. (2024). Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma. Life Writing, 21(4), 685-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2024.2409068

In this article, I offer an après-coup of my transdisciplinary practice-based doctoral thesis, Writing-As-Shadow-Work: An Aesthetics of Jungian Psychoanalysis (2023), to show how the creative licence afforded by autobiographical fiction enabled me to... Read More about Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma.

“One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts (2024)
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Previous research has provided limited insight into why podcasts hosts are perceived to be authentic and has not examined how characteristics that are seen as being indicative of authenticity can relate to parasocial relationships (PSRs). In this stu... Read More about “One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts.

“One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts (2024)
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Previous research has not provided limited insight into why podcasts hosts are perceived to be authentic or how and has not examined how characteristics that are seen as being indicative of authenticity can relate to parasocial relationships (PSRs).... Read More about “One of Us”: Examining the Authenticity and Parasocial Relationships of Stand-Up Comedian Podcast Hosts.

'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford' (2024)
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There is great inequality between the individuals who are successful in their pursuit of research and academic careers and those who are not. In this article, we explore a recent widening participation (WP) intervention at the University of Salford i... Read More about 'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford'.

Investigating the links between civil war, peace and foreign direct investment: a case study of Sri Lanka’s tourism sector (2024)
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It is often assumed that civil wars impede foreign direct investment (FDI). Peace is therefore typically considered important for countries to attract FDI. However, scholarly evidence is inconsistent and has uncovered a complicated relationship betwe... Read More about Investigating the links between civil war, peace and foreign direct investment: a case study of Sri Lanka’s tourism sector.

The Limits of Internet Self-Regulation -The EU's Policy for Digital Internet Intermediaries (2024)
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Simpson, S. (in press). The Limits of Internet Self-Regulation -The EU's Policy for Digital Internet Intermediaries. Frontiers in ICT, 9, 1454211. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1454211

This article contributes to knowledge on EU policy for Internet intermediaries by providing a characterisation and analysis of the system of governance for intermediaries set out initially in the 2000 Directive on E-Commerce and recently updated in t... Read More about The Limits of Internet Self-Regulation -The EU's Policy for Digital Internet Intermediaries.

The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature (2024)
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Nivesjö, S. (2024). The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature. English Studies in Africa, 67(2), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2377516

This article identifies and explores an inciting incident in two pre-apartheid South African novels: the trope of an ‘arrival from abroad’. This trope centres on a character arriving by train from a place figured as foreign, whether that is Cape Town... Read More about The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature.

The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3 (2024)
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McMurtry, L. G. (2024). The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 17(2), 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00120_1

Made for BBC Radio 3, The Midnight Cry of the Deathbird (2012) is an adaptation of F. W. Murnau’s German expressionist silent film Nosferatu (1922), which serves as both a target text (of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, 1897) and a source text (of The M... Read More about The World Without, the World Within and the Space Between: Amanda Dalton’s Adaptation of Nosferatu for BBC Radio 3.

Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling. The Dynamic Game Character, by J. Blom, Amsterdam, UAP, 2023, 208 pp (2024)
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Based on a doctoral thesis, the book introduces the concept of ‘dynamic game characters,’ or characters whose narratives and identities are influenced by players' actions. The term is introduced directly and decidedly not only through the book subtit... Read More about Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling. The Dynamic Game Character, by J. Blom, Amsterdam, UAP, 2023, 208 pp.

Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience (2024)
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Prokopic, P. (2024). Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience. Leonardo, 57(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02538

Nested Cinema is an original immersive experience that complicates the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, between the real and the imaginary. Nested Cinema reimagines film through the orchestration of technology across three distinct la... Read More about Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience.

“The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen” (2024)
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Mellor, N. (2024). “The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen”. #Journal not on list, 7(1), 41–63

This article examines the socio-economic landscape of the 1980s and how brand marketing was used to take advantage of high concepts, home video and audience appetites to help establish some of the most enduring horror films of all time. It will discu... Read More about “The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen”.

Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture (2024)
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Daly, D. (2024). Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2366115

This article explores the agency of the actor in training with Performance/Motion capture (Pe/MoCap) technologies. It examines a series of characterization workshops exploring Michael Chekhov’s (2002) Imaginary Body techniques through live interactio... Read More about Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture.