Who's Who in Research: Media Studies

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Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. “Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,” noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those scholars who don’t work directly with international colleagues, staying up-to-date and relevant requires keeping up with international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it’s not always easy to keep track of who’s who—or what kind of research they’re conducting. That’s where Intellect’s new series comes in. A set of worldwide guides to leading academics—and their work—across the arts and humanities, Who’s Who in Research features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the areas of cultural studies, film studies, media studies, performing arts, and visual arts.

 

Who's Who in Research: Media Studies includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, biography, and current research interests, as well as bibliographic information and a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes in the Who’s Who in Research series will be updated each year, providing the most current information on the foremost thinkers in academia and making them an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, academic libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

 

Sujets

• Media Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783201600
• Langue: English

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WHO S WHO IN RESEARCH
MEDIA STUDIES
WHO S WHO IN RESEARCH
MEDIA STUDIES

intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA
First published in the UK in 2013 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS 16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2013 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2013 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781841504971
Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries and collaboration between researchers is becoming more and more common. Staying up to date and relevant requires keeping abreast of the international currents of thought in one s field. But when one s colleagues span the globe, it is not always easy to know who s who - or what kind of research they are conducting.
Intellect s Who s Who in Research series was designed with the intention of increasing the scholarly community s self-knowledge and facilitating it to come together and to collaborate. As Intellect has grown as a publisher specializing in the creative arts and popular culture, so, necessarily, has its community of authors. This book series opens up a door to this thriving scholarly community by providing an easy, one-stop-shop access to the names and research interests of the leading academics who have published in Intellect s growing portfolio of journals.
We have split the book series into five volumes, each covering one of Intellect s main subject areas. This volume features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the area of media studies. Concise yet detailed listings include each academic s name, institution, a short biography, current research interests and a list of their articles published with Intellect.
Another important feature of this volume is an innovative and user-friendly index, based on the keywords that scholars have used in their articles. By combining the keywords chosen by a community of scholars focused on a specific topic, we hope to offer a taxonomy of keywords for the subject area as a whole, as well as provide a useful method for discovering the people writing on a particular topic, and where that work can be found.
We believe these volumes will be an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.
Masoud Yazdani Publisher
Tom Abba
University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, United Kingdom
Keywords interactivity, narrative, film, ergodic, games
Dr Tom Abba is a specialist in narrative theory and practice. He completed his Ph.D. in interactive narrative at the University of the West of England in 2007, and teaches in the undergraduate media practice programme, the MA Media course and a wider range of courses at postgraduate level. He maintains an ongoing research interest in the grammar of new media and the language of psychogeography and place, and is active in several knowledge transfer projects, working to instigate interactive projects with media organizations across the United Kingdom.
As we might watch: What might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?, Journal of Media Practice, 9.1 , 19-27.
Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih
Al-Zahra College for Women, Department of English Language and Literature, Madinat Al-Ilam, Muscat, P.O. Box 1197, P.C 114, Muttrah, Oman
Keywords media coverage, Iraq, Al-Jazeera, embedded journalists, Arab media
Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih received a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Putra University of Malaysia, and an MA in ESL from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, and a BA (Hons) in Arts and Education (English) from University of Khartoum-Sudan. He is currently teaching English at Al-Zahra College for Women, Sultanate of Oman. He is primarily interested in applied linguistics and issues related to discourse analysis, media discourse, translation and lexicography, besides a general interest in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
The Media and American Invasion of Iraq: A Tale of Two Wars, Journal of Arab Muslim Media Research, 2.1 2 , 81-90.
Masoud A. Abdulrahim
College of Arts Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait
Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti television, independent and government media, satellite television
Masoud A. Abdulrahim (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) is an assistant professor of mass communication and chair of the general education department at Gulf University for Science Technology. His research interests include political communication, the Internet and journalism studies in the Arab world.
Winds of change in the Arab world: a comparative look at a political gratification and effects study of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel and Kuwaiti government television, Journal of Arab Muslim Media Research, 1.2 , 145-163.
Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
University of Westminster, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, School of Media, Arts and Design, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP, UK
Keywords Africa, media
Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar is a research fellow at the Africa Media Centre in the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. He has been working for the BBC World Service, on and off, for well over a decade. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Westminster.
The media, politics and Boko blitz, Journal of African Media Studies, 4.1 , 97-110.
John Adams
University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK
Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation
John Adams is emeritus professor of Film Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.
Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 5.1 , 5-6.
Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 6.3 , 133-134.
Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2 , 83-84.
Reviews, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2 , 169-.
Conceptual smoke and digital mirrors? Issues in audio-visual (A/V) practice research, Journal of Media Practice, 8.2 , 203-220.
UK Film: new directions in the glocal era, Journal of Media Practice, 12.2 , 111-124.
Ernest W. Adams
Adams Consulting Services UK, 185 Guildford Road, Ash, Aldershot, GU12 6DT, United Kingdom
Keywords video games, art, video game industry, game design, video game art
Ernest Adams is an independent game designer, writer and teacher, working with the International Hobo design group. He has been in the video game industry since 1989, and is the author of four books, including Fundamentals of Game Design , a widely-used university textbook; and Break Into the Game Industry: How to Get a Job Making Video Games . He was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series, and for several years before that he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL Football product line. He has developed online, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Nintendo Wii. He is the founder of the International Game Developers Association, and is a frequent lecturer at the Game Developers Conference and many other events.
Will computer games ever be a legitimate art form?, Journal of Media Practice, 7.1 , 67-.
Fiona Adams
London College of Communication, University of the Arts, Elephant Castle, Southwark, London, SE1 6SB, United Kingdom
Keywords Ruby Grierson, practice-based research, documentary film-making
Fiona Adams started her career in broadcasting as a 'pop promo' producer. Then, via Sheffield Hallam University, where she obtained an MA, she directed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. She is now an associate lecturer in documentary film at the University of the Arts (London), Sussex University and University of Brighton.
The rediscovery of a life less ordinary - A practical application to research, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2 , 143-150.
Catherine Adams
University of Alberta, Department of Secondary Education, 347 Education South, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G5, Canada
Keywords business education, hermeneutic phenomenology, communication technologies
Catherine Adams is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, where she teaches computing science and business education curriculum and instruction, philosophical and ethical issues of technology integration in education, and phenomenological research and writing. Her research interests include using hermeneuticphenomenology to examine the mediating influences and pedagogical signifi cances of information and communication technologies and new media in the classroom.
The Poetics of PowerPoint, Explorations in Media Ecology, 7.4 , 283-298.
OluwaTosin Adegbola
New Communications Building, 328, 1700 East Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, United States of America
Keywords public relations, communications, teenagers
OluwaTosin Adegbola, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Relations and Chair of the