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Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2 (2009)
Journal Article
Rodriguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2009). Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2. International Journal of English Studies, 9(2), 171-174

Visible narratives (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2009, November). Visible narratives. Presented at Typographic Horizons, Birmingham City University

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 strategy to place the focus of the viewer on images crea... Read More about Visible narratives.

Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity (2009)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M., Spencer, A., & Roca, I. (2009). Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity. Linguistic Review, 9(1), 27-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.1992.9.1.27

The article examines vowel alternations in Slavic languages on the basis of Polish CVC - CC alternations mostly involving the vowel 'e'. It links the phenomenon to prosodic structures of Slavic languages and tries to resolve the issue by employing a... Read More about Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity.

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
Journal Article
McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

Vainilla chip (2009)
Digital Artefact
Knudsen, E. (2009). Vainilla chip. [Film]

Set in the small Cuban town of San Antonio de los Baños, just outside Havana, Vainilla Chip tells the story of an ordinary day for an elderly ice cream maker, Javier Rodriguez Casanova. An ordinary day which, like all the other ordinary days, has bec... Read More about Vainilla chip.

Tears on the Silk Gown (2009)
Digital Artefact
Bekerman, M., Ivanov, T., Langford, J., & McCafferty, N. (2009). Tears on the Silk Gown. [Digital Video]

Bride Kidnapping has been a persistent problem in Kyrgyzstan and modernity has not reduced the occurrences of this practice often resorted to as a way of avoiding social class divisions or dowry requirements. In this film, this controversial custom i... Read More about Tears on the Silk Gown.

The Bully's Playground (2009)
Digital Artefact
Bekerman, M., Ivanov, T., Langford, J., & McCafferty, N. (2009). The Bully's Playground. [Digital Video]

Bullying with the use of social media caught up with Central Asian urban centres quite early in the post-Soviet transformation. With the state institutions and society lacking the awareness of the problem or the tools to tackle it, bullying and schoo... Read More about The Bully's Playground.

John Rooney: visible narratives (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

An exhibition of images created by John Rooney. The work is part of an ongoing research project which aims to explore the digital trace of language
and gesture

Horizons and timelines (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Heald, K., Haywood, P., & Liggett, S. (2009, September). Horizons and timelines. Presented at 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association: European Society or European Societies, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Referencing three artist practices that manage the concept of the landscape from the perspective of human experience.

This comparison of motive explores; perpetual memory/cultural time and space/landscape as a membrane between experiences; somet... Read More about Horizons and timelines.

Switch on your mobile phone! (2009)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2009). Switch on your mobile phone!

Discussion of new mores of theatre etiquette

"Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing (2009)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2009). "Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 22(9), 193-197. https://doi.org/10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3

This intervention draws on poststructuralist Marxist and post-autonomist theory to analyze the recent spate of ‘mobile phone incidents’ in London's West End theatres, arguing that the context for this newly emerged faux pas must be understood to be t... Read More about "Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing.

Developing the UK e-social science research program (2009)
Book Chapter
Halfpenny, P., Procter, R., Lin, Y., & Voss, A. (2009). Developing the UK e-social science research program. In N. Jankowski (Ed.), E-research : transformation in scholarly practice (73-90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203875049

The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) was established by the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 2004 as its contribution to the U.K. e-Science program. NCeSS’s mission is to enable social scientists to exploit innovations... Read More about Developing the UK e-social science research program.

Picnic on the screen (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Picnic on the Screen is a public installation developed for the BBC Big Screen at Glastonbury. It combines current interactive Ludic interface work that Charlotte Gould has been developing, with Paul Sermon's long established practice and research in... Read More about Picnic on the screen.