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The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum (2019)
Journal Article
Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2021). The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum. Information, Communication and Society, 24(4), 576-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1662072

Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a
part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a parti... Read More about The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum.

Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning (2019)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2019). Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning. ˜The œinternational journal of creative media research, https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.17

Affective Cinema is an AHRC-funded practice research project in film, informed by art cinema, experimental film traditions, film theory and philosophy. The outcomes of the research are films that combine aspects of cinematic style, nuances of perform... Read More about Affective cinema : experimenting with feelings of meaning.

Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience (2019)
Journal Article
experience. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 10(1&2), https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.10.1-2.1_1

At first glance, silent film and audio drama may appear antithetical modes of expression. Nevertheless, an interesting tradition of silent film-to-radio adapta-tions has emerged on BBC Radio Drama. Beyond this link between silent... Read More about Trick film: Neil Brand’s radio dramas and the silent film experience.

Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945 (2019)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2020). Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945. International History Review, 42(4), 794-812. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1650092

This article uses the inter-war and wartime career of Anthony Eden, as a vehicle to understand the little understood relationship between secret intelligence, British Foreign Secretaries and the Foreign Office. While secret intelligence is no longer... Read More about Facing the dictators : Anthony Eden, the Foreign Office and British Intelligence, 1935 – 1945.

“Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968 (2019)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2021). “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 49(1), 148-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1648231

In July 2018, the UK’s Intelligence & Security Committee issued a report into diversity and inclusion across the intelligence and security community. The picture the report painted was far from satisfactory; in short, Britain’s intelligence agencies... Read More about “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968.

Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study (2019)
Journal Article
Coen, S., Fantinelli, S., & Drumm, I. (2019). Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study. Human Affairs, 29(3), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0028

This pilot study examined the idea that use of a mobile technology can have positive consequences for both individual users and, indirectly, for society. The augmented reality (AR) application used is defined as persuasive technology, because it is i... Read More about Promoting pro-environmental behaviour through augmented reality and persuasive informational power: a pilot study.

Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s
Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing
the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival (2019)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2019). The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival. In E. Braat, & P. Corduwener (Eds.), 1989 and the West : Western Europe since the end of the Cold War (247-265). London: Routledge

This chapter assesses the trajectory and fortunes of the radical left in the period since 1989 as a means of providing a perspective on the significance of the 1989 events for this political area. After contextualising the importance of the 1989 revo... Read More about The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival.

Thatcher breaks consensus (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2019). Thatcher breaks consensus. History today, 69(7), 76-81

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. When asked who has been the most controversial and radical postwar British prime minister, many historians and academics incline towards Margaret Thatcher. Taking offi... Read More about Thatcher breaks consensus.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book
Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 940-942. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019856868

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun

Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art (2019)
Book
Crawford, G., & Hancock, D. (2019). Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15966-5

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.


Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the in... Read More about Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art.

Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2019). Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623500

This article examines the specificities of long-from improvised comedy performance (that is, long-from improv) within podcasting. It demonstrates how the podcast medium’s technologies, together with related cultural conventions, motivate performers t... Read More about Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture.

Encounters with art history (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A., Castagnini, L., Mistry, P., & Robles, E. (2019). Encounters with art history. In The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain ; edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles (43-48). Sternberg Press

A discussion between Alice Correia, Laura Castagnini, Priyesh Mistry and Elizabeth Robles considering the role of Art History in the work of Black and Asian British artists during the 1980s. Artists discussed include Rasheed Araeen, Donald Rodney, Ve... Read More about Encounters with art history.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential
of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939 (2019)
Book
O'Reilly, C. (2019). The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315866840

Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteent... Read More about The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939.

“For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital (2019)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2019). “For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital. In C. Madden, & J. Byrne (Eds.), The Robert Sheppard Companion (36-59). Bristol: Shearsman Books

A detailed account of early editorial pieces by Robert Sheppard (b. 1955) - a major figure in Linguistically Innovative Poetry - in his magazine Pages - laying the theoretical groundwork for a new movement in poetry. The piece also consider Sheppard'... Read More about “For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital.