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Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos? (2017)
Journal Article
Cullen, F. (2017). Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?. Visual Culture in Britain, 18(2), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1328987

The nineteenth-century artist, Erskine Nicol (1825–1904) is well known for his anecdotal and humorous paintings of Irish themes. This article analyses one of his larger oils to show that on occasion he attempted a more serious representation of the r... Read More about Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?.

Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere (2017)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere. European Journal of Communication, 32(4), 296-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323117710898

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Theorists of left and right agree that periods of crisis are fertile times at which to precipitate change. However, protesters on the periphery of the public sphere must overcome barriers, or what Habermas called ‘sluice... Read More about Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere.

"Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Martindale, S., Bedwell, B., Phillips, R., & Pedros, M. (2017). "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing. In DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (529–540). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064743

This paper contributes a participatory design case study that used workshops and ideation frameworks to scaffold a conceptualisation of "user data-actuated" plants. The framework combines ideation cards, worksheets and facilitated co-design, guiding... Read More about "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing.

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.