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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.

Typographic musings (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition celebrated beauty and variation in typographic form. There were self-generated and existing typefaces, handcrafted and digital some using open-source software. The aim of the project was to generate collaboration between researchers an... Read More about Typographic musings.

Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual (2011)
Other
Carson, J., & Miller, R. (2011). Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual. Belgium

Based on the conference convened by Carson & Miller to accompany their project The Story of Things, these two journal issues of Image [&] Narrative explore the relationship between narrative and the visual.

Issue 1:

‘Introduction’, Carson &... Read More about Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual.

Embedding employability in the curriculum: A comparative study of employer engagement models adopted by design programmes in China and UK (2011)
Journal Article
Sun, Q. (2011). Embedding employability in the curriculum: A comparative study of employer engagement models adopted by design programmes in China and UK. Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, 3(1), 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/17561391111106016

Purpose
The paper draws on the experience of students, employers, and tutors in the two product design degree programmes respectively delivered at the University of Salford in the UK and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, to examine the diffe... Read More about Embedding employability in the curriculum: A comparative study of employer engagement models adopted by design programmes in China and UK.

A theoretical design management framework (2011)
Journal Article
Sun, Q., Williams, A., & Martyn, E. (2011). A theoretical design management framework. Design Journal, 14(1), 112-132. https://doi.org/10.2752/175630610X12877385838885

Design management is a relatively new concept compared with either design practice or management science. There has been various approaches tried to conceptualise design management issues, but most of these have considered design management in an or... Read More about A theoretical design management framework.

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.

“Communism is English” : Edgell Rickword, Jack Lindsay and the cultural politics of the popular front (2011)
Journal Article
Harker, B. (2011). “Communism is English” : Edgell Rickword, Jack Lindsay and the cultural politics of the popular front. Literature and History, 20(2), 23-40

Focussing primarily on Edgell Rickword and Jack Lindsay, this article recovers and analyses the contexts and arguments through which these and other intellectuals identified with and articulated Communism in the mid and late 1930s. It argues that su... Read More about “Communism is English” : Edgell Rickword, Jack Lindsay and the cultural politics of the popular front.

The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet (2011)
Journal Article
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2011). The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet. Journal of European Public Policy, 18(2), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2011.544505

Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved
at pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its
development has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing
this gap in t... Read More about The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet.

‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications? (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2011). ‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications?. West European Politics, 34(5), 1114-1133. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2011.591108

This article makes a contribution to research on soft or ‘new’ governance in EU policy
making by examining the recent history of telecommunications policy as a case study, a
sector hitherto not widely recognised for displaying this kind of governan... Read More about ‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications?.

Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal (2011)
Journal Article
Ferreras Rodríguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2011). Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal. Comunicación (Sevilla. Internet), 1(9), 175-188

The Indiana Jones series is on the foundation of the so called «blockbuster» phenomenon, a cinema that represents huge financial investments for the studios every year but is usually disregarded by scholars as empty. Despite that, it would be fair to... Read More about Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal.