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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.

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.

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.

From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design (2016)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. A., & Kennedy, H. (2016). From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design. Participations, 13(1), 252-279

In 2014, Secret Cinema Presents … Back to the Future …, tensions emerged within a section of the audience who were not invested in the rules of engagement of the secret cinema brand. The secret location of the screening, the requirement to surrender... Read More about From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design.

Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India (2016)
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Evans, E., McDonald, P., Bae, J., Ray, S., & Santos, E. (2016). Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India. Convergence, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516641629

The potential of the internet to act as a global distribution outlet for screen content has long come into conflict with the nationally-focused strategies of producers, broadcasters, governments and internet service providers. Online viewing therefor... Read More about Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China (2016)
Journal Article
Gallagher, M. (2016). Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China. Asian Cinema, 27(1), 43-58. doi:10.1386/ac.27.1.43_1

To account for the complex performative and cultural phenomenon of cinematic sex appeal, this article investigates Chinese actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Leung as a regional and global star, focusing on attributes of his acting that convey sex appeal or h... Read More about Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China.

Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age (2016)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (2016). Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 12(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.12.1.7_1

This article discusses how the interplay between the canon, the archive and performance informs the use of digital heritage resources in the construction, interpretation, representation, circulation and preservation of cultural and/or collective memo... Read More about Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age.

Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach (2016)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Green, W. (2016). Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach. Disability and Society, 31(3), 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1174102

This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is... Read More about Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach.