Childish Gambino : This is America uses music and dance to expose society’s dark underbelly
(2018)
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Cookney, D., & Fairclough, K. (2018). Childish Gambino : This is America uses music and dance to expose society’s dark underbelly
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Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives (2018)
Journal Article
Johnson, B., & Minor, L. (2018). Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives. Feminist Media Studies, 19(3), 364-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1468795The UK television drama Shameless (Channel 4, 2004-2011) ran for eleven series, ending with its 138th episode in 2011. The closing episode did not only mark an end, however, but also a beginning - of a US remake on Showtime (2011-). Eight series down... Read More about Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives.
“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography (2018)
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disability and new possibilities for auto/biography. Auto/Biography Studies, 33(2), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2018.1445509This essay draws on findings from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project: “In the Making” (AH/M006026/1) to argue that the digital turn in art therapy – particularly 3D printing – makes possible new forms of disability agency, engaging pos... Read More about “The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography.
War elephants and early tanks : a transepochal comparison of ancient and modern warfare (2018)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2018). War elephants and early tanks : a transepochal comparison of ancient and modern warfare. Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 77(1), 37-77. https://doi.org/10.1515/mgzs-2018-0002Although scholars have in the past dismissed the claim that war elephants were the »tanks of the ancient world«, a closer examination of the similarities between the two weapons reveals some remarkable parallels. In fact, a comparison shows that many... Read More about War elephants and early tanks : a transepochal comparison of ancient and modern warfare.
Brexit : the links between domestic and foreign policy (2018)
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Williams, B. (2018). Brexit : the links between domestic and foreign policy. Political Insight, 9(2), 36-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905818779334The UK’s vote to leave the EU was as much a product of divisions within the Conservative party as wider concerns about Britain’s relationship with Europe. Ben Williams explores the often complex relationship between domestic and foreign policy and it... Read More about Brexit : the links between domestic and foreign policy.
Diagnosing UK journalism, the sickness that never was (2018)
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Bekerman, M. (2018). Diagnosing UK journalism, the sickness that never wasUK journalism has been under attack with accusations of poor standards and malpractice, but the author argues it is the regulatory system that cannot cope with the new converged and digital reality combined with the depleted and disappearing investme... Read More about Diagnosing UK journalism, the sickness that never was.
Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (2018)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2018). Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In M. Freeman, & W. Proctor (Eds.), Global convergence cultures : transmedia Earth (175-191). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315188478-11The chapter aims to examine the concept of transmediality (or cross-mediality) in relation to institutional communication in Japan. To do this, it examines several case studies within the current Japanese society, with special attention to crisis com... Read More about Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
John Webster's Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation (2018)
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Bergstrom, C., & Negri, L. (2018). John Webster's Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1466263
Introduction to special issue on Webster (2018)
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Bergstrom, C., & Nigri, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on Webster. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(2), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1466263John Webster’s Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation: A collection of essays exploring the forms and functions of violence, evil, and social realities in Webster's drama.
Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening (2018)
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Choi, I. (2018). Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 197. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00197Sonification is an open-ended design task to construct sound informing a listener of data. Understanding application context is critical for shaping design requirements for data translation into sound. Sonification requires methodology to maintain re... Read More about Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening.
Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones (2018)
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Kilby, J. (2018). Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones. Feminist Theory, 19(3), 323-343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117752773Although Alice Sebold abandoned the writing of what would turn out to be her phenomenally successful novel The Lovely Bones in order to write her 1999 rape memoir Lucky, it is not possible to separate them, and thereby split fact from fiction, as, in... Read More about Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones.
Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower (2018)
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Crossley, T. (2018). Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower. New Theatre Quarterly, 34(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X18000052Postdramatic approaches to performance and Stanislavsky’s methodology seemingly occupy divergent performance traditions. Nonetheless, both traditions often require performers to mine their own lives (albeit to different ends) and operate in an experi... Read More about Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower.
Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi (2018)
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Nigri, L. (2018). Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3), 176-181Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing (c.1598) and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) are two plays in which Matteo Bandello’s portrayal of evil agents in his novellas exert a constant, even if not immediately obvious, influence. Remote from ea... Read More about Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi.
Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption (2018)
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Bull, M., & Heywood, P. (2019). Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption. European Political Science, 18, 185-188. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-018-0152-0Despite widespread interest in corruption and how to root it out, the problem continues to grow. Anti-corruption strategies and methods have proved ineffective in achieving lasting reductions in corruption. Anti-corruption academic research has not b... Read More about Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption.
Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature (2018)
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Arguello Casteleiro, M., Demetriou, G., Read, W., Fernandez-Prieto, M., Maroto, N., Maseda Fernandez, D., …Stevens, R. (2018). Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 9(13), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-018-0181-1Background Automatic identification of term variants or acceptable alternative free-text terms for gene and protein names from the millions of biomedical publications is a challenging task. Ontologies, such as the Cardiovascular Disease Ontology (C... Read More about Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature.
Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Loubser, J. (2018, April). Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making. Presented at British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle UniversityOver the past year I, along with my technologically minded colleagues, created an industry collaboration project entitled Collected Scatterings. The premise is a simple one: to provide good quality recordings and ethnographic films for local musician... Read More about Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making.
Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda (2018)
Book
(2018). D. McIntyre, & H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda. RoutledgeApplying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical discussion of the concept of impact, as well as an examinat... Read More about Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda.
Linguistics, language and the impact agenda (2018)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, D., & Price, H. (2018). Linguistics, language and the impact agenda. In D. McIntyre, & H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda (3-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055185-1This chapter introduces the concept of impact and considers (i) how it has been perceived across government and the higher education sector, and (ii) what it means to stakeholders with an interest in the impact agenda. The chapter summarises how impa... Read More about Linguistics, language and the impact agenda.
Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics (2018)
Book Chapter
Price, H. (2018). Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics. In D. McIntyre, & H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda (41-52). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055185-4This chapter focuses on the relationship between impact and public engagement. I argue in favour of a greater consideration of public engagement activities in the assessment of impact, and in so doing I discuss the issues associated with developing s... Read More about Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics.
Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England (2018)
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Symons, J., & Hurley, U. (2018). Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England. Creative Industries Journal, 11(2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2018.1453770This ground-breaking research defines a new approach for engaging low income and disenfranchised communities in the creative economy. The authors propose that demystifying creativity and reframing it as an adaptive productive process can lead to a... Read More about Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England.