Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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Technological disruptions in Services: lessons from Tourism and Hospitality
(Article)Purpose – Technological disruptions such as the Internet of Things and autonomous devices, enhanced analytical capabilities (artificial intelligence) and rich media (virtual and augmented reality) are creating smart ... -
Practising creativity to develop students in marketing
(Article)This paper presents the findings of a ‘client-based’ experiential learning innovation introduced into the curriculum of a postgraduate marketing and advertising programme at a UK higher education institution. Based on ... -
Convergence markets: Virtual Corpo[reality]
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Applying Kinaesthetic Empathy and Extended Mind Theory to Invasive and Discreet Instruments in Sound-Based Live Performance
(Article)I have taken the ambiguous psychology of Kinaesthetic Empathy and the relatively recent ideas that form Extended Mind Theory and re-contextualised them so they are relevant to sound-based live performance. I then used these ... -
Communication Machines as Art
(Article)The paper presents a personal history of making machines as artworks. The particular kind of art machines that have been made since around 1970 are communication machines: ones that enable humans to interact with each ... -
Rape jokes aren’t funny: the mainstreaming of rape jokes in contemporary newspaper discourse
(Article)The #MeToo campaign has reminded us that male sexual violence, harassment, and abuse towards women is not a new phenom- enon. But alongside the visibility of the perpetrators and experiences of myriad women, this recent ... -
Questioning the 'Experimental': Electroacoustic Improvisation as 'Experimental' case study
(Article)As pointed out in the conference call, the concept of 'experimentation' and the experimental in music was central in the development of the electroacoustic art form, as indeed it was for many areas of twentieth-century ... -
Trust and its predictors within a cyber-physical system context
(Article)This research aims to provide empirically derived insights into trust and its predictors within a cyber-physical system context of a household service. The methodology comprises an innovative mixed methods design encompassing ... -
Visual Theogonies: Chance, control, and automation in algorithmic art
(Article)This short article explores relations between chance and control in the field of algorithmic art, using as a case study the series of artworks Visual Theogonies (2014), which arose out of a playful game with the poem ... -
Misinformation: Technology, Elections and Democracy - Who, what, why, when, where?
(Conference)This was an international, comparative and historical survey of the phenomenon of misinformation and fake news; and a brief analysis of some contemporary policy and legislative responses to it. -
Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
(Conference)Call for papers We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Big Data, AI and Digital Futures: Challenges, changes and continuities, to be published by the AI & Society Journal of Culture, Knowledge and Communication ... -
The Violence of Impact: unpacking relations between gender, media and politics
(Article)Engaging in public dialogue is a crucial part of the impact agenda, but what are the politics of this engagement? What happens when female academics engage with, or are reported by media, in disseminating their research? ... -
“Town centres first”: the relocation of the cinema from out of town to the town centre (Invited paper)
(Conference)In 2013 the British Film Institute (BFI, 2013) reported that 48 per cent of Britain’s 3,817 cinema screens were in town/city centres, 14 per cent in ‘edge of centre’ sites and 34 per cent in ‘out of town’ sites. Though the ... -
From Greenfield to Brownfield: the movement of the multiplex into the urban centre’ (Invited paper)
(Conference)When Britain’s first multiplex, The Point, opened in Milton Keynes in 1985 the site chosen was a green field one in what was at the time a planned new town. For the next ten years new multiplex developments were primarily ... -
Entering the age of the hypermarket cinema’: the first five years of the multiplex in the United Kingdom
(Conference)Jim Higgins, managing director of distributor UIP, commenting on the imminent opening by American Multi-Cinema (AMC) of Britain’s first multiplex in Milton Keynes; summarised the future attraction of the multiplex when he ... -
The Point: Birth of the Multiplex in Great Britain (Invited paper)
(Conference)By the early 1980s Britain was viewed as a market in which the domestic exhibition sector was in terminal decline, whilst at the same time being a market in which films from the United States were both popular and dominant. ... -
Memories of cinema-going, community and the revival of the local cinema
(Conference)This presentation will consider some preliminary data from a quantitative study, undertaken by members of De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Research Institute and the University of Leicester’s Research ... -
Constructive alignment and multimodal approaches – Innovative Media pedagogies in Public Relations
(Article)This paper aims to investigate and understand the contribution of innovative pedagogies in media education through empirical findings from the classroom that emerges out of a reflective practice. Media education in the ... -
Associations and Dislocations: Multisensory Interfaces for Collaborative Musical Experience
(Other)Associations and Dislocations is a series of projects broadly exploring the perceptual mechanisms and effects of presenting sound alongside images or objects, and the use of multi-person interfaces to encourage a collaborative ...
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