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China’s Environmental Governance: Evolution and Limitations (2014)
Book Chapter

It has been widely acknowledged that China, one of the world's fastest growing and most populous countries, has been facing some serious environmental challenges since the 1950s. This has led to environmental degradation especially since its opening-... Read More about China’s Environmental Governance: Evolution and Limitations.

Ontology-based information extraction and reservoir computing for topic detection from blogosphere's content : a case study about BBC backstage (2014)
Book Chapter

This research study aims at detecting topics and extracting themes(subtopics) from the blogosphere’s content while bridging the gap between the Social Web and the Semantic Web. The goal is to detect certain types of information from collections of bl... Read More about Ontology-based information extraction and reservoir computing for topic detection from blogosphere's content : a case study about BBC backstage.

Combining semantic web technologies with evolving fuzzy classifier eClass for EHR-based phenotyping : a feasibility study (2014)
Book Chapter

In parallel to nation-wide efforts for setting up shared electronic health records (EHRs) across healthcare settings, several large-scale national and international projects are developing, validating, and deploying electronic EHR oriented phenotype... Read More about Combining semantic web technologies with evolving fuzzy classifier eClass for EHR-based phenotyping : a feasibility study.

Media ecology (2014)
Book Chapter

An invited entry on the concept of media ecology.

Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, A., & Pearson, R. (2014). Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities. In Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155_1

The emergence of digital modes of content creation and distribution, combined with the domestication of Internet technology and digital consumption devices, has led to the digital integration of the production and circulation of narrative content acr... Read More about Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities.

Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry (2014)
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While games studies has theorised the ways in which video games convey narrative it has so far neglected the industrial circumstances that structure these narratives. Using the video game developer, publisher and hardware-manufacturer Nintendo as a c... Read More about Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry.

Italy : history (2014)
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Newell, J. (2014). Italy : history. In Western Europe 2015. Routledge

‘A fight to the death : the challenge of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party’s Reactions’ (2014)
Book Chapter
Newell, J. (2014). ‘A fight to the death : the challenge of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party’s Reactions’. In Italian Politics (86-102). Berghahn

Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress (2014)
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In a 2009 article from the UK Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe writes: When a film star seduces someone 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, the audience doesn’t bat an eyelid. In fact, it is an established cinema convention. If the older star is a woman,... Read More about Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress.

Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007) (2014)
Book Chapter

‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ concludes Alasdair Gray’s Old Men in Love (2006) and in so doing notes that Gray has told him that because “this novel would be his last (for he is seventy-two and in poor health) I [Workman] could be sure of having the la... Read More about Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007).

Social democracy in the light of capitalist financial crises (2014)
Book Chapter

The crisis of 2008 was not the first time that social democratic parties were found wanting when faced with bank and financial failures. But it was the first since they had learned to praise the wisdom as well as the creativity of 'the market'.

Engagements with Trotsky (2014)
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This article considers the broader cultural impact of Trotsky and Trotskyism in Britain beyond the small groups associated with his name.

Crosscurrents: The cultural dynamics of jazz (2014)
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Debates in jazz history are aesthetic marks which reflect discourses about the directions the music might take. In September 2013 experts from Europe and the USA met at the Darmstadt Jazzforum to discuss how such debates inform the perception of jazz... Read More about Crosscurrents: The cultural dynamics of jazz.

Sounds shadowing agents generating audible features from emergent behaviors (2014)
Book Chapter

Data from an interactive simulation of dynamic agents’ social behavior is applied to the control of procedural sound synthesis. Sound is generated dynamically in parallel with visualization and presented in an interactive system where the simulation... Read More about Sounds shadowing agents generating audible features from emergent behaviors.

The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader? (2014)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2014). The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?. In J. Jordan, & M. Ryle (Eds.), B.S. Johnson and Post-War Literature : The Possibilities of the Avant-Garde (153-166). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349552_10

The symposium giving rise to this collection and the thriving of the B.S. Johnson Society both indicate that there is something exceptional going on with the literary and academic community’s relationship with this author, something we (collectively)... Read More about The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?.

An architectural approach to level design (2014)
Book Chapter

Written by a game developer and professor trained in architecture, An Architectural Approach to Level Design is one of the first books to integrate architectural and spatial design theory with the field of level design. It explores the principles of... Read More about An architectural approach to level design.

Hannah Maybank : bobhowlers and blooms ; introduction (2014)
Book Chapter

An introductory essay for Hannah Maybank's catalogue, "Bobhowlers and blooms", published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London, 29th May - 6th July 2014.

From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968 (2014)
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Publisher's description of book:
’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academ... Read More about From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968.

Interrogation during “the troubles” in Northern Ireland, 1971-75 (2014)
Book Chapter
Newbery, S. (2014). Interrogation during “the troubles” in Northern Ireland, 1971-75. In C. Andrew, & S. Tobia (Eds.), Interrogation in War and Conflict : A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis (209-226). Routledge

Marxism and US foreign policy (2014)
Book Chapter
Stokes, D., & Maher, D. (2014). Marxism and US foreign policy. In I. Parmar, L. Miller, & M. Ledwidge (Eds.), Obama and the World: New directions in US foreign policy (53-66). Routledge