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5th LOCUS (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The LOCUS exhibition is a part of the programme aiming to promote exchange between the Asagaya College of Art and Design in Tokyo and the Norwich School of Art and Design in Norwich. Since 2004, the two schools of art and design in Tokyo and in the U... Read More about 5th LOCUS.

Designing the Metaverse for Gen Z (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2023, June). Designing the Metaverse for Gen Z. Presented at Youth Marketing Strategy, London

Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses recent evidence of efforts by broadcast players to move into personal mobile communications through the delivery of broadcast content to smartphones. It explores innovation strategies related to the broadcast distribution channe... Read More about Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications..

Peace games (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Welcome to Peace Games, where Second Life and First Life converge in a bizarre peace talks charade that reflects the absurd face of global politics. Peace Games by Paul Sermon, exhibited at: GAMES: Kunst und Politik der Spiele Concept and Organisatio... Read More about Peace games.

Dry River (2023)
Book

Sara Greystone’s career as a public defender is spiraling after a disastrous court case, and now her husband’s IT career is also in jeopardy. A move to California is supposed to get them both back on their feet, but the state is in the midst of a cri... Read More about Dry River.

Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (2023). Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 137-161. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0665

This article examines the BBC sitcom Alma’s Not Normal and its representation of white
working-class femininities in/on British TV comedy. After The Royle Family creator Caroline
Aherne’s death in July 2017, the BBC created a bursary in memory of t... Read More about Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy.

Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database (2023)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M., & Sanchéz Soriano, J. (2023). Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database. Journal of Film and Video, 75(1), 46–61. https://doi.org/10.5406/19346018.75.1.04

This paper examines the role of cinema as a reflection of reality and social change. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) was employed as the main data source in order to examine the representation of LGBTQ+ in global cinema in parallel with the analysis o... Read More about Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database.

Imagining the Metaverse (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2023, March). Imagining the Metaverse. Presented at Data 2023, London

Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network (2023)
Other
Davies, A. Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network

This research paper presents an analysis of a collaborative task completed by students, which involved broadcasting a live camera feed from the Blue Peter Gardens at Media City UK to their Mac Studio using a 5G Public network. The paper focuses on th... Read More about Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network.

The Metaverse (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2023, March). The Metaverse. Presented at SXSW

Presentation for the Department of International Trade, in association with GMCA, produced for UK House, during the SXSW Festival

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (in press). The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom

The release of reality television series Milf Manor in January 2023 has added to the pantheon of milfs (“Mothers I’d Like to Fuck”) on screen. But from Stacy’s mum to Stifler’s mum: why is our cultural fascination with and fetishisation of the milf s... Read More about The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom.