The Department of Media, Film and Communication's Working Paper Series provides an avenue for rapid publication and wide dissemination of in-progress research. The journal's ISSN is: 2253-4423. The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to circulate on-going research in the fields of media, culture and society (broadly defined) to the wider research community and interested individuals. The Series aims to promote inter and trans-disciplinary work across the humanities and social sciences. The Working Paper Series is a refereed journal that follows a blind peer review policy. Publication in the MFCO Working Paper Series does not preclude publication of more elaborated versions of the same paper in other journals.
Work by Visiting Scholars
Naql, Iqtida, Muarada, and Javab g'oi, Sariqa, and Mahumda Sariqa in the Hindi Masala Film
Anjali Gera Roy
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
And where do we go next? Some Current and Future Fields of Research in Media Culture and Media Economy – Illustrated by the Example of Michael Jackson's Thriller
Jürgen E. Müller
University of Bayreuth
Special Issue: Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology
Issue Editors
Kevin Fletcher & Holly Randell-Moon
Editorial
Owain Gwynne – Editorial: Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology (pp. 1-5)
Issue
Dion McLeod & Travis Holland – The Ghost of J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Ur-Fan (pp. 1-20)
Edmund Smith – Superheroes and Shared Universes: How Fans and Auteurs Are Transforming the Hollywood Blockbuster (pp. 1-27)
Alison Bell – 'Welcome to your ABC Starter Kit': Examining Entryway Paratexts in Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice(pp. 1-19)
Isabelle Delmotte – The influences of sonic sensory awareness in the production and consumption of screened nature documentaries (pp. 1-21)
Special Issue: Environments, Spaces and Transformations
Editorial
Maud Ceuterick & Alex Thong – Editorial: Environments, spaces and transformations (p. 1-4)
Urban spatial practice, creativity and change
Shanna Robinson - A roll of the dice: experimentalism, space and emergent forms of touristic practice in The diceman (p. 1-18)
Linda Madden - Knowledge spaces and the urban jungle: animal agency in geographical understandings of public space (p. 1-22)
Emma Sharp - Taking (intra-) action: alternative food initiatives doing differently to transform our food future (p. 1-19)
Transforming education
Kim Brown & Kerry Shephard - Seeking spaces to transform learning about sustainability in higher education (p. 1-17)Megan Anakin - Transforming a methodological landscape from deficit to growth in mathematics education research (p. 1-24)
Rethinking law, media and aesthetics
Giovanni Di Lieto - Free trade in labour: a new global space for workers' rights? (p. 1-18)
Ryan Tippet - Social media as surveillance: digital spaces and the societies of control (p. 1-21)
Peter Stapleton - Expansion/contraction: shifting spaces within the rock music documentary (p. 1-18)
Research Reflections
The Department of Media, Film and Communication regularly hosts visiting scholars, research symposia and conferences. Below we have write-ups of our recent events to complement the podcasts and videocasts on the right hand side of the page.
- Hip Hop and Class Struggle - a videocast of Boots Riley's keynote address for the 'music / media / politics' Symposium (16th April 2014)
- Visiting Scholar Revisits Erving Goffman's concept of Frames - Dr Michael Bourk on Professor Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's presentation on 'Constructing Frames' (21st March 2014)
- Visiting Scholar explores the aesthetic of naqqal in Hindi cinema - Alex Thong on Professor Anjali Gera Roy's presentation on 'Copycat Bollywood' (26th June 2014)