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Troubled, But Alive and Kicking: New Insights into Political Theatre outside the Establishment (2015)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2015). Troubled, But Alive and Kicking: New Insights into Political Theatre outside the Establishment. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies, 29(4), 496-517. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2015.1078542

Third-sector political theatre is thought of in connection with socio-political goals or structural decay. Socio-political goals encompass coverage of topics that engage with an array of crucial issues through performances, and the promotion of wider... Read More about Troubled, But Alive and Kicking: New Insights into Political Theatre outside the Establishment.

Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique (2015)
Journal Article
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.

'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies' (2015)
Book Chapter
Bradnock, L. (2015). 'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies'. In L. Bradnock, C. J. Martin, & R. Peabody (Eds.), Lawrence Alloway: critic and curator. Getty Research Institute

This essay examines the role of film viewing and film criticism in the early intellectual formation of the British art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway. Drawing on archival material from the Alloway Papers at the Getty Research Institue, including... Read More about 'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies'.

Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Between Aspiration and Reality: A Study of Contemporary Third Sector Media Production (2015)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. H. (2015). Between Aspiration and Reality: A Study of Contemporary Third Sector Media Production. In C. Atton (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media (278-288). Routledge

Most research on third-sector media organisations, by which I mean companies representing a sector of media production understood to be relatively autonomous of state and commercial interests, and operating in the interests of community and public li... Read More about Between Aspiration and Reality: A Study of Contemporary Third Sector Media Production.

East Asian Film Noir (2015)
Book
Gallagher, M., & Shin, C.-Y. (Eds.). (2015). East Asian Film Noir

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and... Read More about East Asian Film Noir.

Advocate, Copycatting or Simply Pragmatic: Reconceptualising Contemporary 'Marginal' Journalism(s) (2015)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2015). Advocate, Copycatting or Simply Pragmatic: Reconceptualising Contemporary 'Marginal' Journalism(s). Open Cultural Studies, 2(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.5617/jmi.v2i1.860

Journalism(s) at the margins have often been perceived to focus exclusively on public service obligations. The motivation for this lies in the inability and/or unwillingness of mainstream public service and commercial media to provide a range of civi... Read More about Advocate, Copycatting or Simply Pragmatic: Reconceptualising Contemporary 'Marginal' Journalism(s).

The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive (2014)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H., & Philip, F. (2014). Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive. Viewfinder,

Funded under the AHRC Digital Transformations in Community Research Co-Production in the Arts and Humanities and led by Simon Popple (University of Leeds), Pararchive (http://pararchive.com/) aims to co-produce a new open ‘access’ digital resource th... Read More about Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive.

Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, S., Tim, C., Sarah, M., Kher Hui, N., Elizabeth, E., Richard, M., & Stuart, R. (2014, September). Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. Presented at HomeSys 2014, Seattle, USA

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shipp, V., Coughlan, T., Martindale, S., Ng, K. H., Evans, E., Mortier, R., & Reeves, S. (2014, September). Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. Presented at 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle Washington

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (2014)
Book
Frame, G. (2014). The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explor... Read More about The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation.