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‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop (2021)
Journal Article
Hook, D. (2021). ‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop. Popular Music, 40(1), 75-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143021000040

Hip-hop is a global culture, where local representation is a core tenet of its ideological framework. Therefore, it provides opportunities to observe how a global cultural structure is interpreted, realigned and expressed in local cultural forms. Thi... Read More about ‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop.

“MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education (2021)
Journal Article
Abuhammad, A., Falah, J., Alfalah, S. F. M., Abu-Tarboush, M., Tarawneh, R. T., Drikakis, D., & Charissis, V. (2021). “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5(3), Article

Medicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and hand... Read More about “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education.

Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User (2021)
Journal Article
Basabain, W., Macleod, K., Westbury, T., & Qutub, A. (2021). Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User. Asian Social Science, 17(3), 9-30. http

Some athletes have attracted millions of audiences, even if being namely recognised. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar JR., and David Beckham have the most Instagram followers on a global scale. Online Social Networks (OSN) allows users to establish their pr... Read More about Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User.

Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study (2021)
Journal Article
Charissis, V., Falah, J., Lagoo, R., Alfalah, S. F. M., Khan, S., Wang, S., …Drikakis, D. (2021). Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study. Applied Sciences

The plurality of current infotainment devices within the in-vehicle space produces an unprecedented volume of incoming data that overwhelm the typical driver, leading to higher collision probability. This work presents an investigation to an alternat... Read More about Employing emerging technologies to develop and evaluate in-vehicle intelligent systems for driver support: infotainment AR HUD case study.

The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction (2021)
Journal Article
Faire, R. (2021). The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction. International Research in Children's Literature, 14(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0376

Lualhati Bautista's Dekada '70 (1983) is a mainstay of Philippine high school reading. It tells the story of Amanda Bartolome and her five sons during the titular decade as they live under the shadow of Martial Law. And while youth activism is at the... Read More about The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction.

“A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick (2020)
Journal Article
Køhlert, F. B. (2020). “A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 4(2), 199-220. https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2020.0018

In Sick, his 2016 memoir about suffering from a mysterious illness, Gabby Schulz depicts himself as experiencing extreme pain, which he depicts on the page in the shape of monsters and gargoyles tormenting him. Under the pressure of a rising fever, S... Read More about “A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick.

Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil (2020)
Journal Article
Danson Faraday, J. (2020). Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil. Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, 40(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.7202/1096480ar

Abstract For Cirque du Soleil’s touring arena show Corteo, music is a central feature of every performance. In this article, I focus on Corteo’s touring sound technicians, who play an essential role in the show’s musical presentation. I discuss a me... Read More about Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil.

Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does ‘good enough’ do enough good? (2020)
Journal Article
Dylan Smith, G., Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Davies, G. (2020). Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does ‘good enough’ do enough good?. Journal of Network Music and Arts, 2(1),

LoLa is a cutting-edge technology that enables low latency, real-time collaborations across vast distances using high-bandwidth, low-jitter networks. It has the capacity to transform how music is made and experienced. It has been utilized on a relati... Read More about Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does ‘good enough’ do enough good?.

Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism (2020)
Journal Article
Duff, A., & Ito, Y. (2020). Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism. Keio communication review, 42(3), 53-74

Utopianism has always had a bad press. The whole genre, not least classics such as Thomas More’s Utopia (More, 1516), Robert Owen’s New View of Society (Owen, 1813), and William Morris’s News From Nowhere (Morris, 1891), has allegedly been shot throu... Read More about Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism.

Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law (2020)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2020). Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law. Journal of Media Law, 12(2), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2020.1831141

In Norowzian v Arks Ltd. (No.2) the Court of Appeal determined that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects films as dramatic works. What, conceptually and in practice, this means is not clear. This article examines and compares the hist... Read More about Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law.

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Supartono, A., & Moschovi, A. (2020). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000508

This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced during an inter... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.

Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478

We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.

On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word (2020)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2020). On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word. Media Practice and Education, 21(3), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2020.1800299

On the Outside (On the Outside. 2019. Film. Directed by Paul Gray. UK: Good Well Films), is a 42 minute film that is the outcome of a participatory film project involving women serving sentences in HM Prison Polmont, Scotland. Scripts were developed... Read More about On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word.

Film Authorship and National Cinema: An Analysis of “Chineseness” in John Woo’s Hollywood Films’ (2020)
Journal Article
Li, Q. (., & Deng, L. (2020). Film Authorship and National Cinema: An Analysis of “Chineseness” in John Woo’s Hollywood Films’. Search Journal of Media and Communication Research, 12(2), 59-72

Hong Kong has the world’s third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. For many decades, Hong Kong cinema has long been transregional and transnational. Its audiences are spread across Southeast Asia and its films have been... Read More about Film Authorship and National Cinema: An Analysis of “Chineseness” in John Woo’s Hollywood Films’.

Growing up in hip hop: The expression of self in hypermasculine cultures (2020)
Journal Article
Hook, D. (2020). Growing up in hip hop: The expression of self in hypermasculine cultures. Global Hip Hop Studies, 1(1), 71-94. https://doi.org/10.1386/ghhs_00005_1

Recently, rappers Talib Kweli and Evidence discussed the conflict between rapper-identity and individual-identity as a person ages, with Kweli describing how a rapper’s persona ‘becomes like an armour’ and Evidence observing that ‘after a while that... Read More about Growing up in hip hop: The expression of self in hypermasculine cultures.

Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’ (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2021). Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(2), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1771750

Increasingly, critical design methods offer heritage scholars new ways of exploring identities, experiences and relationships, extending a dialogic approach that supports the testing and realisation of heritage futures. This paper focuses upon a two-... Read More about Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’.