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British digital game studies (2018)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., MacCallum-Stewart, E., & Ruffino, P. (2018). British digital game studies. ToDiGRA (Online), 3(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.26503/todigra.v3i3.76

This paper provides a short and potted recent history of digital games research in Great Britain. We begin this story in 2001. Though a substantial amount of research and writing on digital games was taking in Britain since at least the 1980s, for us... Read More about British digital game studies.

Book review : Authenticity and how we fake it : belief and subjectivity in reality TV, Facebook and YouTube by Aaron Duplantier (2018)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2018). Book review : Authenticity and how we fake it : belief and subjectivity in reality TV, Facebook and YouTube by Aaron Duplantier. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(3), 853-855. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699018764310

Review of: Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube. DuplantierAaron. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2016. 185 pp. 196 pp. $29.95 pbk. $15.99 ebk.

Out with the old in with the new? The media campaign (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Wring, D. (2018). Out with the old in with the new? The media campaign. Parliamentary Affairs, 71(S1), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx057

The 2017 General Election will likely be remembered as the campaign where the once dominant forms of TV and print journalism were challenged by digital platforms. This chapter analyses this development while also acknowledging that social media netwo... Read More about Out with the old in with the new? The media campaign.

The game of making an archaeology game : proposing a design framework for historical game design (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2018, March). The game of making an archaeology game : proposing a design framework for historical game design. Presented at Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) International Conference, Tübingen, Germany

In the last years, game technologies have been increasingly raising the interest of archaeological communities as means to communicate the scientific data, process, interpretations, and findings from sites. This interest is evidenced by numerous exam... Read More about The game of making an archaeology game : proposing a design framework for historical game design.

Civil war and uncivil development: economic globalisation and political violence in Colombia and beyond (2018)
Book
Maher, D. (2018). Civil war and uncivil development: economic globalisation and political violence in Colombia and beyond. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66580-1

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that ‘civil war represents development in reverse’. While some civil wars may have adverse economic effects, Civil War and Uncivil Development pos... Read More about Civil war and uncivil development: economic globalisation and political violence in Colombia and beyond.

Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009) (2018)
Book Chapter
Kosmidou, S. (2018). Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009). In K. Deslandes, F. Mourlon, & B. Tribout (Eds.), Civil War and Narrative : Testimony, Historiography, Memory (129-149). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61179-2_8

In recent years, there has been a surge of scholarly interest in cinema and cultural memory. To an extent, this scholarship concerns researchers in cultural studies, history, literary studies, and media studies. Alongside this academic work, there h... Read More about Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009).

The air campaign of 1918 (2018)
Book Chapter
Corum, J. (2018). The air campaign of 1918. In M. Strohn (Ed.), 1918 : Winning the War, Losing the War (215-236). Oxford: Osprey Publishing (Bloomsbury)

A chapter focusing on the air campaign and operations on the Western Front in 1918

Saro-Wiwa’s language of dissent : translating between African Englishes (2018)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2018). Saro-Wiwa’s language of dissent : translating between African Englishes. Translation and Literature, 27(1), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2018.0320

This article calls attention to the essential translational aspect of linguistic experimentation in literary uses of African Englishes in colonial and postcolonial West African literature. It focuses mainly on the literature of the most linguisticall... Read More about Saro-Wiwa’s language of dissent : translating between African Englishes.

The Stalin question (2018)
Journal Article
Callaghan, J. (2018). The Stalin question. Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, 14, 96-114

When polling on the topic first began in 1989, Stalin was ranked bottom of the list of the most important Russians, scoring 12 per cent. The same survey, by the independent Levada Centre, placed him at the top in 2017, with an approval rating of 38 p... Read More about The Stalin question.

Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate? (2018)
Journal Article
accurate?. Comedy Studies, 9(1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1437166

Are the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy in the process of transformation? I am seeking in this paper to address challenging questions concerning the increasing disappearance of the 'serious' comedy, especially the satirical play on the UK stage... Read More about Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate?.

Air power in interagency operations (2018)
Book Chapter
Corum, J. (2018). Air power in interagency operations. In J. Olsen (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Air Power. Abingdon, UK: Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Air Power offers a comprehensive overview of the political purposes and military importance of air power. Despite its increasing significance in international relations, statecraft and war, the phenomenon of air power r... Read More about Air power in interagency operations.

Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism? (2018)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2018). Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?. South European Society and Politics, 23(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1436493

Italian politics have undergone momentous change in the 2007–2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011–2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992–1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian poli... Read More about Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?.

In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2018). In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis. South European Society and Politics, 23(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1433477

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently mad... Read More about In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis.

Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2018). Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016. CAA.reviews (New York, N.Y.), https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2018.39

Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past is both a fascinating and frustrating compendium of art made since the sixteenth century that either depicts, reflects, or comments upon, British colonialism. Written by a team of Tate curators, with... Read More about Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016.

An Architectural Approach To Level Design (2018)
Journal Article
Ali, U. (2018). An Architectural Approach To Level Design. ˜The œcomputer games journal, 7(1), 39-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-017-0050-7

This paper review’s Christopher Totten’s 2014 book, An Architectural Approach to Level Design. Totten’s work arguably represents the most advanced and up to date discussion in applying traditional architecture principles to level design. The work in... Read More about An Architectural Approach To Level Design.

PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art. In L. Taylor (Ed.), PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (3-40). Salford: University of Salford

A catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art from the University of Salford Art Collection, held at The Vaults, St George's Hall, Liverpool, 8 February - 3 June 2018. Short introductory texts, written by Alice C... Read More about PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art.

The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles (2018)
Book Chapter
Callaghan, J. (2018). The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles. In L. Bland, & R. Carr (Eds.), Labour, British radicalism and the First World War (240-256). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press