All Outputs (58)

Participative textures in World of Warcraft: social capital, affect and community in massively multiplayer online games (2024)
Thesis
Glynou, A. Participative textures in World of Warcraft: social capital, affect and community in massively multiplayer online games. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The aim of this thesis is to explore how affect and social capital emerge in the virtual communities of World of Warcraft (WoW). To set the theoretical framework, the thesis draws from game studies, media theory, community studies, affect theory and... Read More about Participative textures in World of Warcraft: social capital, affect and community in massively multiplayer online games.

Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976 (2024)
Thesis
Geddes, K. Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Early television food and cooking programmes from the period 1936-1976 remain a neglected area of media history research, despite their inclusion in the broadcasting schedules from the very beginning of television broadcasts in Britain. This thesis c... Read More about Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976.

A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia (2023)
Thesis
Anderson, C. A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis is an autoethnographic exploration of how my music composition practice is influenced by my auditory-visual synaesthesia. I perceive music as coloured and textured shapes – ‘photisms’ – in my mind’s eye. There are few first-person account... Read More about A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia.

Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective (2023)
Thesis
Discepoli, M. Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The MRes thesis takes its area of research enquiry from a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded project, The Deaf Heritage Collective, which aimed to create significant working relationships between Scotland’s Deaf Community and the cultural sector... Read More about Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective.

'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing (2023)
Thesis
Duncan, H. M. 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing. (Thesis). http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175165

This thesis provides a detailed study of the work of three Scottish women writers of the interwar period (Willa Muir, Lorna Moon, and Nan Shepherd) to review their individual responses to one critical aspect of rural modernity: widespread watchfulnes... Read More about 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing.

‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject (2023)
Thesis
Margiotta, C. ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, as outlined in Powers of Horror (1980), through the lens of contemporary American literature, considering the potential problems with the Kristevan abject and the ways in which contemporary... Read More about ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject.

A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice (2023)
Thesis
McPherson, K. A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice. (Thesis by Publication). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175350

A Space of Time: the evolution of a screendance practice explores the relationship between making, writing and teaching as a model for developing screendance. It is a portfolio submission in which the accompanying thesis examines and expands upon the... Read More about A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice.

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism (2023)
Thesis
Milne, D. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Modernism. In exploring this, the thesis suggests that Stevenson’s contribution to literary Modernism has frequently been overlooked due to several crit... Read More about Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism.

Interaction and participation: investigating the impact of mobile technologies on screen-based industries and audiences (2022)
Thesis
Blake, J. Interaction and participation: investigating the impact of mobile technologies on screen-based industries and audiences. (Thesis by Publication). Edinburgh Napier University

This PhD explores the changing nature of audience participation in screen-based media. The research, conducted over six years, analyses the motivations and methods of industry professionals working at the forefront of interactive television and film.... Read More about Interaction and participation: investigating the impact of mobile technologies on screen-based industries and audiences.

The potential of ocean plastic: an investigation of recycling possibilities in design and awareness-raising methods in society (2022)
Thesis
Tao, X. The potential of ocean plastic: an investigation of recycling possibilities in design and awareness-raising methods in society. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

One severe and urgent environmental problem facing this planet is ocean plastic pollution. Despite various policies and frameworks, the challenge has been growing as countless plastics enter the marine environment and remain there, endangering the he... Read More about The potential of ocean plastic: an investigation of recycling possibilities in design and awareness-raising methods in society.

Dialogical music systems: The importance of agency in creative processes (2022)
Thesis
O'Neill, G. T. J. Dialogical music systems: The importance of agency in creative processes. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

For many, music represents product, something to be created and consumed, whilst functioning merely as aesthetic noise. I have often regarded this viewpoint as problematic, which is why this thesis provides an alternative perspective on music through... Read More about Dialogical music systems: The importance of agency in creative processes.

Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love (2022)
Thesis
Koufoudakis, I. Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2948413

This thesis consists of the first part of my song cycle Songs after Love: a group of four songs for soprano and ensemble, plus an epilogue piece for solo violin. In these songs, I have explored different pieces of poetry, coming from the following 20... Read More about Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love.

Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites (2022)
Thesis
Aslani, S. Z. Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2968224

This thesis identifies the various interrelated areas needed in the research and preparation of lighting design schemes for historic sites as facilitators for placemaking processes. In doing so, it firstly focuses upon placemaking as an influential p... Read More about Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites.

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation (2021)
Thesis
Hind, J. Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2859858

Hybridisation is a multifaceted term that appears across several sociocultural contexts, while common conceptualisations of musical hybridisation in scholarship tend to be positioned in genre studies. As a result of the perceived disjunctions of taxo... Read More about Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation.

The potentiality of play: the shifting design language of play-based learning (2021)
Thesis
Jain, P. S. The potentiality of play: the shifting design language of play-based learning. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2799235

This thesis, underpinned by cross-cultural design ethnography (DE) and research through design (RtD), re-reads play-based learning constructs as design practice. In doing so, it charts the shifting relationship between design and theories of play-bas... Read More about The potentiality of play: the shifting design language of play-based learning.

Work on the move: mobilities of creativity and design ideation (2021)
Thesis
Firth, R. Work on the move: mobilities of creativity and design ideation. (Thesis by Publication). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2811275

This thesis focuses on the development of original design ‘ideation’ processes (the formation of ideas or concepts) set within the context of both commercial museum and exhibition design contracts and product design pedagogic research. Taken together... Read More about Work on the move: mobilities of creativity and design ideation.

The future is unwritten. E-publishing in small nations of Europe: A comparative approach to policy frameworks and small business strategies (2021)
Thesis
Klamet, A. F. M. E. The future is unwritten. E-publishing in small nations of Europe: A comparative approach to policy frameworks and small business strategies. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2813179

Digitisation, together with the spread of the internet, has initiated a transition phase in publishing. This transition not only affects the production process but also the way of communication, the product itself and its distribution. International... Read More about The future is unwritten. E-publishing in small nations of Europe: A comparative approach to policy frameworks and small business strategies.

A vast shadow house: Critical and creative responses to David Lindsay’s vision (2021)
Thesis
Martin, S. E. A vast shadow house: Critical and creative responses to David Lindsay’s vision. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2851947

David Lindsay (1876-1945) wrote the metaphysical fantasy novel, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), six further novels, and a typescript of philosophical notes (National Library of Scotland). Lindsay had a lifelong preoccupation with what he called the Subl... Read More about A vast shadow house: Critical and creative responses to David Lindsay’s vision.

Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland (2020)
Thesis
McFadden, S. Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2709266

Scotland’s historic and contemporary representation of capital punishment remains relatively unexplored in existing scholarship. This study aims to determine how capital punishment was presented to Scots in eighteenth and nineteenth century press pub... Read More about Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland.

3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research (2020)
Thesis
Milne, D. E. 3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2709292

This thesis aims to demonstrate children’s engagement with 3D printing technologies in 3D printing workshops through a large study of children. This will provide qualitative and empirical evidence which supports the benefits of making for children an... Read More about 3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research.