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Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique (2015)
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Goffey, A. (2015). Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010661

Through a discussion of a range of research drawn from the humanities and social sciences, and with a particular emphasis on work that tackles questions about the discourse of the life sciences, this paper considers some of the difficulties with rese... Read More about Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique.

Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation (2015)
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Potts, T. (2015). Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation. Subjectivity, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2015.1

This article aims to disturb the received wisdom ‘tidy house, tidy mind’ by tracing its emergence and consolidation: from psychoanalysis to clinical psychology through to philosophy and reality television. The contention here is that the commanding p... Read More about Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation.

“The Real Thing”: Election Campaigns and The Question of Authenticity in American Film and Television (2015)
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FRAME, G. (2016). “The Real Thing”: Election Campaigns and The Question of Authenticity in American Film and Television. Journal of American Studies, 50(3), 755 - 777. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815000651

This article examines the concept of authenticity in American politics through its construction and representation in fictional election campaigns in film and television. This article will posit The Candidate (1972), Tanner '88 (1988), Wag the Dog (1... Read More about “The Real Thing”: Election Campaigns and The Question of Authenticity in American Film and Television.

The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy (2015)
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Evans, E. (2016). The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy. Convergence, 22(6), 563-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856514567052

The gaming industry has seen dramatic change and expansion with the emergence of ‘casual’ games that promote shorter periods of game play. Free to download, but structured around micro-payments, these games raise the complex relationship between game... Read More about The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy.

A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse (2014)
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Newsinger, J. (2015). A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse. Media, Culture and Society, 37(2), 302-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714560134

A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the... Read More about A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse.

'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games (2014)
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Elizabeth, E. (2014). 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games. International Journal of Communication, 8,

Alternate reality games (ARGs) combine transmedia and pervasive storytelling, layering fictional narratives onto real world spaces and raising a number of production challenges in the process. This article will consider the key professional skills, w... Read More about 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games.

Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014)
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Hadas, L. (2014). Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2014.71.332

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the first filmmaking endeavour of its kind: multiple separate superhero films taking place within a single diegetic world, united in a single sequel, The Avengers (2012). The third highest-grossing film in histo... Read More about Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game (2014)
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Evans, E., Flintham, M., & Martindale, S. (2014). The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0762-7

The Malthusian Paradox is a transmedia alternate reality game (ARG) created by artists Dominic Shaw and Adam Sporne played by 300 participants over three months. We explore the design of the game, which cast players as agents of a radical organisatio... Read More about The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game.

Somewhere (and nowhere) between modernity and tradition: towards a critique of international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art (2014)
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Gladston, P. (2014). Somewhere (and nowhere) between modernity and tradition: towards a critique of international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art. Tate Papers,

Reviewing international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston argues for the necessity of new theoretical paradigms.

The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television (2013)
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Johnson, C. (2013). The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television

It has been widely argued that the experience of watching television has altered significantly since Raymond Williams’s theorisation of flow in the mid-1970s. Yet despite the rise of new technologies such as personal video recorders and on-demand ser... Read More about The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television.

From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting (2013)
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Johnson, C. (2013). From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting. Media, Culture and Society, 35(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712472088

In debates about the commercialization of public service broadcasting little attention has been paid to the ways in which the public might experience the commercial and public service activities of public service broadcasters and the impact that this... Read More about From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting.

‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 (2012)
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Potts, T. (2012). ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11. Tourist Studies, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797612461083

This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001. What makes Ground Z... Read More about ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11.

Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama (2012)
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Frame, G. (2012). Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama. Comparative American Studies, 10(2-3), 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000012

During the 2008 election campaign Obama's youth, his glamorous wife, young children, and liberal politics resuscitated the memory of Kennedy, who remains the benchmark of the presidential image. This article explores how Obama shapes himself in Kenne... Read More about Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections (2012)
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Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643872

Gramsci’s writings have rarely been discussed and used systematically by scholars in cultural policy studies, despite the fact that in cultural studies, from which the field emerged, Gramsci has been a major source of theoretical concepts. Cultural p... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks? (2012)
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Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks?. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643874

In this article, I argue that Gramsci’s prison notes on questions of cultural strategy, policy and institutions, which have so far been largely overlooked by scholars, provide further analytical insights to those offered by his more general concepts.... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks?.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice (2012)
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Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643873

In this article, I consider Gramsci’s pre-prison writings and political practice in relation to questions of cultural strategy and institutions. I argue that the analysis of these early texts, which were written in the years in which Gramsci was acti... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice.