All Outputs (267)

Laziness and lexicography : a contrastive study (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Li-Rasmussen, S. (2011, May). Laziness and lexicography : a contrastive study. Presented at Click-on-Knowledge, Copenhagen, Denmark

In spite of all its benefits, laziness is one of the major side effects of digital technology. With just a click of mouse, you can access Wikepedia, Google, Youtube, Wordpress, etc. and get any information desired in a second. ‘Efficiency is intelli... Read More about Laziness and lexicography : a contrastive study.

The emotive city (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2011, May). The emotive city. Presented at 4th Annual Information Studies Postgraduate Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University

How can a city, with its connections, people and architecture be viewed as a living cultural artefact? Every city has at least one ArtSpace; larger urban conurbations have a multitude of spaces devoted to art. The ArtSpace is a venue designed to con... Read More about The emotive city.

Scrapbooks, albums & notebooks: an act of leisure, a document of leisure, a labour of leisure (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Carson, J., & Miller, R. (2011, April). Scrapbooks, albums & notebooks: an act of leisure, a document of leisure, a labour of leisure. Presented at Recording Leisure Lives: Everyday Leisure in twentieth century Britain, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

"Thus, scrapbooks serve as particularly useful sources; not only can they reveal culture through their compilation of ephemera, but they also illustrate an individual’s interaction with that culture." (Kuipers, 2004: 87) Scrapbooks, albums and noteb... Read More about Scrapbooks, albums & notebooks: an act of leisure, a document of leisure, a labour of leisure.

The potential of soft governance in the EU information society: lessons from the EU electronic communications regulatory framework (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2011, April). The potential of soft governance in the EU information society: lessons from the EU electronic communications regulatory framework. Presented at UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference ‘Transforming Politics – New Synergies’. Panel: ‘The Public Interest and EU Information Society Policy: the Role of Soft Governance’,, London

The paper has two key findings. First, the EU’s employment of soft governance as a policy tool to stimulate effective transposition and implementation of agreed measures in telecommunications has been utilised alongside the threat (and use of) hard l... Read More about The potential of soft governance in the EU information society: lessons from the EU electronic communications regulatory framework.

The emotive city, a PechaKucha presentation Media, Digital Technology & the Creative Economy Theme workshop (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Media, Digital Technology & the Creative Economy Theme workshop. Presented at Media, Digital Technology & the Creative Economy Theme workshop, The University of Salford

How can a city, with its connections, people and architecture be viewed as a living cultural artefact? Every city has at least one ArtSpace; larger urban conurbations have a multitude of spaces devoted to art. The ArtSpace is a venue designed to con... Read More about The emotive city, a PechaKucha presentation Media, Digital Technology & the Creative Economy Theme workshop.

The new politics of corruption: from the white man's burden to the relative autonomy of the state (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bratsis, P. (2011, March). The new politics of corruption: from the white man's burden to the relative autonomy of the state. Presented at International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal

The emergence of the ever growing anti-corruption movement from the early '90s onwards has proven itself to be of considerable importance in how we understand and explain global inequalities as well as in redefining corruption as a lack of transparen... Read More about The new politics of corruption: from the white man's burden to the relative autonomy of the state.

The evolution of international policy agendas in the regulation of electronic communications: the internet and telecommunications (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2011, February). The evolution of international policy agendas in the regulation of electronic communications: the internet and telecommunications. Presented at International Political Science Association/European Consortium for Political Research conference, ‘Whatever Happened to North-South?’, Sao Paulo, Brazil

This paper focuses on the recent evolution of global regulatory policy agendas in two key parts of communication media: the Internet and telecommunications. It explores the key regulatory governance ideas and practices that have come to the fore in s... Read More about The evolution of international policy agendas in the regulation of electronic communications: the internet and telecommunications.

Playing in the Wunderkammer (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Carson, J., Miller, R., & Allmer, P. (2011, February). Playing in the Wunderkammer. Presented at Modern/Contemporary Art and the Curiosity Cabinet, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, US

In 2009 Manchester-based collaborative artists Carson & Miller were invited by Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections and the North West Film Archive (UK) to curate an exhibition which explored the museum and archives varied collectio... Read More about Playing in the Wunderkammer.

Interpreting digital gaming practices: singstar as a technology of work (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Light, B. (2011, January). Interpreting digital gaming practices: singstar as a technology of work. Presented at European Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Finland

Embedded within discourses of the enactment of information and communications technologies (ICTs) at work is often a tightly constrained range of legitimate application areas of study, a rather thin concept of user-developer relations and a context... Read More about Interpreting digital gaming practices: singstar as a technology of work.

The emotive city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, December). The emotive city. Presented at Future Cities, London

How can a city, with its connections, people and architecture be viewed as a living cultural artefact? Every city has at least one ArtSpace; larger urban conurbations have a multitude of spaces devoted to art. The ArtSpace is a venue designed to con... Read More about The emotive city.

Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010 (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ingleson, S. (2010, November). Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010. Presented at MANCHESTER BEACON Summit 2010, Museum of Science & Industry

How do you melt metal? Inspired by the Salford Scientist James Joule, this event is a combination of science experiments, art workshop and exhibition all based around the transformation of metals from one state to another. The event builds upon an... Read More about Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010.

Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Leighton, D. (2010, November). Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector. Presented at ATLAS Annual Conference: Mass tourism vs Niche tourism, Limassol, Cyprus

This paper investigates experiential marketing as a means of promoting cultural heritage within a highly competitive leisure and tourism marketplace. It explores the role and significance of heritage tourism and the emergence of cultural heritage tou... Read More about Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector.

The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. (2010, October). The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments. Presented at ISMAR 2010 The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, COEX/Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Korea

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments.

The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2010, September). The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales. Presented at LeNS Conference: Sustainability in Design: Now! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century., Bangalore, India

The paper examines the relationship between design and sustainability in a policy context of sustainable development, in Wales, UK, a devolved Government with a legal remit to sustainable development. A case study approach has been used alongside g... Read More about The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales.

Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sihvonen, M., & Simpson, S. (2010, September). Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK. Presented at Reinterpretations of the Public Enterprise (RIPE) conference ‘Public Service Media After the Recession’, University of Westminister, London

This paper explores recent patterns of minority interest television programming in Finland and the UK and their implications for future public service broadcasting (PSB) environments. The provision of resources to cater for minority interests of va... Read More about Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK.

Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Archetti, C. (2010, September). Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change. Presented at American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Convention, Washington, DC

Based on a range of interviews with foreign diplomats in London, the paper explains the considerable variation in the way communication technologies both affect diplomatic practices and are appropriated by diplomats to pursue the respective countries... Read More about Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change.

From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks (2010)
Presentation / Conference
O'Reilly, C. (2010, September). From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks. Presented at City and Society in European History: Conference of the European Association for Urban History, Ghent, Belgium

This paper examines the evolution of the municipal public park in Manchester from the Victorian people’s park to the Edwardian (and later) citizen’s park. The linguistic shift from the people to the citizen is mirrored in the change of emphasis from... Read More about From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks.

Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Watson, J., & Al-Azraqi, M. (2010, July). Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri. Presented at Seminar for Arabian Studies, London

Arabic was traditionally described as lughat al-Ρād ‘the language of Ρād’ due to the perceived unusualness of the sound. From Sībawayhi’s description, early Arabic Ρād was clearly a lateral or lateralized emphatic. Lateral fricatives are assumed to h... Read More about Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri.

The narrative of creativity in the city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). The narrative of creativity in the city. Presented at PARC North West, Manchester Metropolitan University

The subject is to study expression of creativity in the city with the recording of the creative gesture presented as visible narratives. The first phase will focus on Manchester and Salford. Both cities are locations are significant centres for cultu... Read More about The narrative of creativity in the city.

Recording the creative gesture (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). Recording the creative gesture. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London

Visible Narratives The digital pathway of gesture This project is created from digital recordings of the gesture. A Visible Narrative is the unseen path created by the pattern of gesture we make during the moment language. This is a deliberate st... Read More about Recording the creative gesture.