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Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism (2011)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2011). Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism. In A. Gasiorek, A. Reeve-Tucker, & N. Waddell (Eds.), Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (111-126). Routledge

Writing on the eve of the First World War, the French philosopher Julien Benda concluded that music had become ‘a profound signature of the modern spirit’.1 According to Benda, this obsession was responsible for the anti-intellectual culture of moder... Read More about Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism.

A song and dance: Branded entertainment and mobile promotion (2011)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2012). A song and dance: Branded entertainment and mobile promotion. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(2), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877911416887

This article considers the rise of branded entertainment within the contemporary marketing and media environment. Specifically, it examines how mobile phone marketing in the UK has sought to engage consumers and perform the social use of mobile techn... Read More about A song and dance: Branded entertainment and mobile promotion.

The politics of protest in newspaper campaigns: dissent, populism and the rhetoric of authenticity (2011)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2011). The politics of protest in newspaper campaigns: dissent, populism and the rhetoric of authenticity. British Politics, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1057/bp.2011.5

Newspaper campaigns embody newspaper’ most emphatic claims to speak for ‘the people’, and as such are generally regarded as populist. However, they can be oppositional, engaging in dissent of one sort or another, and often assume a certain amount of... Read More about The politics of protest in newspaper campaigns: dissent, populism and the rhetoric of authenticity.

Ephemeral media: transitory screen culture from television to YouTube (2011)
Book
Grainge, P. (Ed.). (2011). Ephemeral media: transitory screen culture from television to YouTube. Palgrave Macmillan

From the television interstitials that appear between programmes to the brief clips and videos that proliferate on YouTube, contemporary screen culture is populated by short-forms that make claims for our attention. Ephemeral Media provides a unique... Read More about Ephemeral media: transitory screen culture from television to YouTube.

Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns (2010)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2010). Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns. Discourse and Communication, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481309353285

Campaign advocacy is a common but rarely researched practice in British tabloid journalism. Newspaper campaigns give an account of ‘public opinion’ to politicians, make explicit claims to speak for ‘the public’ and authentically represent them, and... Read More about Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns.

Elvis sings for the BBC: broadcast branding and digital media design (2010)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2010). Elvis sings for the BBC: broadcast branding and digital media design. Media, Culture and Society, 32(1), 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443709350097

This essay uses a striking example of digital remix promotion - BBC Radio 2’s Elvis ad - to examine developments in the contemporary branding and broadcast environment. Developing work by John Caldwell, it examines the Elvis ad as a ‘deep text’, a pr... Read More about Elvis sings for the BBC: broadcast branding and digital media design.

The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation (2009)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2010). The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation. Journalism Practice, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780903407437

Campaign journalism is a distinctive but under-researched form of editorialised news reporting that aims to influence politicians rather than inform voters. In this it diverges from liberal norms of social responsibility, but instead campaigning new... Read More about The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation.

Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2009). Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400300903307019

Most histories of British television date the emergence of a trade in programming to the mid- to late-1950s when recording technologies turned previously ephemeral programmes into exchangeable goods and ITV brought a commercial impetus to British bro... Read More about Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years.