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Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city (2016)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2016). Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city. First Monday, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i1.5529

As cities become more complex and their communities more dispersed, questions such as ‘where is home? and ‘where and how do I belong?’ are increasingly pertinent. If urban space is a system, then it can be challenged through the spatial practice of i... Read More about Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city.

Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging" (2015)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2015). Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging". Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 1,

This paper explores McQuire’s concept of "relational space", a term he uses to describe the transformed horizon of social relationships within the smart city. Although there is no exact definition, the smart city is predicated on both the rise of dig... Read More about Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging".

"An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2014). "An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction. International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2014.932390

While the investigation of creative writing as a research method is gathering apace, little work has been done into the specific case of hypertext fiction (fiction written through a digital medium). This paper argues that, while there remain certain... Read More about "An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction.

Applied utility and the auto-ethnographic short story: persuasions for, and illustrations of, writing critical social science (2011)
Journal Article
Gilbourne, D., Jones, R., & Jordan, S. (2014). Applied utility and the auto-ethnographic short story: persuasions for, and illustrations of, writing critical social science. Sport, Education and Society, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.632405

In some quarters it is argued that, narrative researchers might be classified as being either storyanalysts or storytellers. They go on to suggest that one feature of storytellers is that they undertake a form of analysis as the process of writing un... Read More about Applied utility and the auto-ethnographic short story: persuasions for, and illustrations of, writing critical social science.