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United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place (2017)
Book Chapter

In recent years, the media in the UK have been under greater scrutiny than ever before, across all platforms. Journalists have been the subject of protracted criminal investigations and trials. The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethi... Read More about United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place.

Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol (2017)
Physical Artefact

The Looking For Archie Walking Tour of Cary Grant's Bristol was first developed in 2017 as part of the Being Human Festival . Cary Grant was born as Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, but many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continu... Read More about Looking for Archie: A walking tour of Cary Grant's Bristol.

Ethiopian echoes in the British landscape (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation about my ongoing work and research at Fairfield House, Bath, the former residence of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. I discuss engagements with the site using creative media, arts and research, relationships with the local communitie... Read More about Ethiopian echoes in the British landscape.

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the ‘real’ world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journa... Read More about Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists.

The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary (2017)
Book Chapter

“This paper came out of a panel on 'The Material Turn and Interactive Documentary' at Visible Evidence XXIV, Buenos Aires, 2017. Each panelist was asked to make a series of propositions and interrogations around new epistemologies and ontologies for... Read More about The New Materialism: Human and algorithmic agency within interactive documentary.

View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary (2017)
Book Chapter

"Bristol has a culture of tryers, lots of people trying but because there’s a lack of accessibility. Because there is a lack of exits, naturally there are loads of people trying to get out… it is full of people who are trying because they can't grab... Read More about View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary.

Emplaced interaction and interactive documentary: Fighting algorithmic manipulation and filter bubbles with physical engagement (2017)
Journal Article

Whilst the problems of algorithmic manipulation and filter bubbles need to be addressed on several fronts, the strategy I am proposing here is that of “emplaced interaction.” When applied to interactive documentary, this is a strategy which marries t... Read More about Emplaced interaction and interactive documentary: Fighting algorithmic manipulation and filter bubbles with physical engagement.

Interactive documentary and thick description: Embracing complexity and transcultural understanding (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper builds on my work as a founding director of i-Docs (i-docs.org) and on my background in anthropology. It explores how Geertz’s concept of ‘thick description’ can be applied to interactive documentary as a tool for engaging with complexity... Read More about Interactive documentary and thick description: Embracing complexity and transcultural understanding.

War reporting from above: Has the use of drones to cover the Syrian civil war provided more than just spectacular images? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Shenasnameh (2017)
Exhibition / Performance

Shenasnameh was presented as a solo exhibition at the RPS Gallery, Tokyo.

Finding an audience: Evaluating the production and marketing of low budget British films in the iFeatures production scheme, 2009 - 2014 (2017)
Thesis

This thesis explores the first iteration of iFeatures, a grant-aided low budget production scheme in Bristol, UK, from 2009 – 2014. The scheme encouraged and trained filmmakers to develop digital marketing and distribution strategies to enable the t... Read More about Finding an audience: Evaluating the production and marketing of low budget British films in the iFeatures production scheme, 2009 - 2014.

From ‘embodied interaction’ to ‘emplaced interaction’: Thinking through the transformative potential of interactive documentary (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2016, interactive pioneer Chris Milk launched his new company With.in through an article on ‘The Future of Virtual Reality’, in which he called VR “the last medium” and claimed that it “will be more than just a storytelling platform. It will be a... Read More about From ‘embodied interaction’ to ‘emplaced interaction’: Thinking through the transformative potential of interactive documentary.

Forgotten Places (2017)
Digital Artefact

Forgotten Places is a short documentary film that explores the architectural history of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. In particular, the film follows local tour guides Nick Lloyd and Catherine Greenleagh and the Spanish Civil War tour that they... Read More about Forgotten Places.

Practice-based Learning: A Safe Place to Make Mistakes. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Down the Rabbit Hole: Editorial Preface (2017)
Journal Article

The politics of immersive storytelling: Virtual reality and the logics of digital ecosystems (2017)
Journal Article

School Portrait Rwanda (2017)
Digital Artefact

Interview and feature on the project 'School Portrait Rwanda'

Can we make our media class less London centric? (2017) (2017)
Digital Artefact

Media industries and engagement: A dialogue across industry and academia (2017)
Journal Article

This article focuses on media engagement within the industry. The article takes the form of a dialogue between industry and academic researchers involved in a collaborative project on production and audience research on engagement (funded by the Wall... Read More about Media industries and engagement: A dialogue across industry and academia.

Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the Creative Citizens study, an extensive research project conducted by the authors from 2013 to 2015, looking into the community media practices of the South Blessed collective, a self-motivated network of young creatives appr... Read More about Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value.