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Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, E., Coughlan, T., & Shipp, V. (2017). Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television. Critical Studies in Television, 12(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698714

The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digita... Read More about Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television.

Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937) (2017)
Book Chapter
SERGI, G. (2017). Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937). The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (270-280). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681047

This chapter considers the way in which some of the key relationships at the core of the filmmaking process were formed as a direct consequence of union representation. This is particularly significant with regards to the relationship between sound a... Read More about Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937).

Perversion Now! (2017)
Book
Wright, C., & Caine, D. (2017). D. Caine, & C. Wright (Eds.), Perversion Now!. Palgrave Macmillan

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recen... Read More about Perversion Now!.

‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer (2017)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2017). ‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer. Critical Studies in Television, 12(2), 139-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698158

This article examines the promotion of the BBC’s online streaming and download service, iPlayer, as it has been presented to audiences through broadcast television. Analysing transitions in the BBC’s representation of iPlayer, it considers the promot... Read More about ‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer.

Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts (2017)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2017). Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1286024

This article considers the production of media paratexts beyond the bounds of the entertainment industry. Specifically, it examines the development of video content strategy by universities, and the paratextual function that video shorts serve in the... Read More about Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts.

Migrating objects: John Henry Foley and empire (2017)
Book Chapter
Cullen, F. (2017). Migrating objects: John Henry Foley and empire. In K. Wager, J. David, & M. Klemencic (Eds.), Artists and migration 1400-1850. Britain, Europe and beyond. Cambridge Scholars Press

This is a chapter in a book entitled, Artists and Migration 1400-1850. Britain, Europe and beyond, edited by Kathrin Wagner, Jessica David and Matej Klemencic, published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2017. The collection came out of a conference in... Read More about Migrating objects: John Henry Foley and empire.

Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual (2016)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2016). Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual. In S. Tomšič, & A. Zevnik (Eds.), Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics. Routledge

This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of... Read More about Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual.

Participatory worlds: models of collaborative textual production beyond the entertainment industry (2016)
Journal Article
Blázquez, J. M. (2016). Participatory worlds: models of collaborative textual production beyond the entertainment industry

Throughout history, participation has been a term closely related to transgression and the democratisation and the balance of the inequalities in society. Participation has continued being a major concept in the digital age where 'participatory cultu... Read More about Participatory worlds: models of collaborative textual production beyond the entertainment industry.

Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028

This article argues that the French sinologist Henri Cordier (1849-1926) used his private correspondence with a vast international network of diplomats, administrators, missionaries, writers and scholars of every field of Asian studies between the 18... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925.

The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication (2016)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2016). The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication. International Journal of Communication, 5997–6016

This article explores how four British and German theatre companies that originated in the countercultural era continue to survive in an increasingly austere economic climate. Although their survival strategies have been marked by remarkable resilien... Read More about The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication.

Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality (2016)
Book Chapter
Goffey, A. (2016). Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality. In P. Harvey, C. Bruun Jensen, & A. Morita (Eds.), Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622880-45

The National Programme for IT, or NPfIT for short, was a flagship IT project of the first Labour administration initiated by Tony Blair in 2002. Headed by Richard Grainger and costing an alleged £18.7bn, it was widely billed as the ‘biggest IT project... Read More about Machinic Operations. Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality.

Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028

This article examines the French sinologist Henri Cordier’s correspondence as a form of crowdsourcing between 1875 and 1925. Cordier’s multinational and multidirectional exchanges show the vital role of letter writing in his development as a student... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925.

‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns (2016)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns. Journalism, 18(10), 1346-1363. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916671159

This article examines the use of personal narratives in two tabloid newspaper campaigns against a controversial welfare reform popularly known as the ‘bedroom tax’. It aims firstly to evaluate whether the personal narratives operate as political tes... Read More about ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns.

Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited (2016)
Book Chapter
Cullen, F. (2016). Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited. In J. Fenlon, R. Kenny, C. Pegum, & B. Rooney (Eds.), Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620-1820. Irish Academic Press

Examination of a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of Commons. Explores the format of the painting and its failure as a large scale work of contemporary history. Concludes that contents of picture is a political a... Read More about Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited.

Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley, R. (in press). Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris. Oxford Art Journal, 39(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcw012

The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19... Read More about Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris.