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Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar (2019)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2019). Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03

Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal authorities took a collusive (and cosy) approach to the issue, moving only to p... Read More about Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar.

What was missing from the relaunch of Medium? (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Blake, J. (2015). What was missing from the relaunch of Medium?

A commissioned article for the Conversation website on the innovative publishing platform Medium and a comparison with other established social media sites.

‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty? (2015)
Journal Article
Craighill, S. (2015). ‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?. Journal of European Popular Culture, 6(1), 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.6.1.5_1

This article examines popular culture and its effect on the European translations market. The dominant position of Anglo-Saxon culture in the global cultural economy has stimulated an imbalance in the flow of translations towards the English-language... Read More about ‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?.

Reporting the Death Knock: Ethics, Social Media and the Leveson Inquiry (2015)
Thesis
Belch, L. Reporting the Death Knock: Ethics, Social Media and the Leveson Inquiry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9832

The aim of this thesis is to understand the current practice in death knocks among print journalists and the ethical implications of reporting death and whether limitations are placed on the practice by reducing newspaper budgets. It will explore the... Read More about Reporting the Death Knock: Ethics, Social Media and the Leveson Inquiry.

The book in the long twentieth century (2014)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2014). The book in the long twentieth century. In L. Howsam (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (162-180). Cambridge University Press

No abstract available.

The travels and trials of Lady Chatterley's Lover. (2013)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2013). The travels and trials of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In G. Donaldson, & W. Wootten (Eds.), Reading Penguin: A critical anthology (27-48). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2013, May). Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. Presented at Cyberspace, Alternative Media and Activism Symposium

If, as Michel de Certeau argued, space is a practiced place, then what social practices enable what we might term an activist geography of cyberspace? Alternative media have a key role to play in online activism, particularly when they are understoo... Read More about Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology..

Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972 (2013)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2013). Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412470950

This article examines the trading structures within which UK publishers operated in the markets of Empire and Commonwealth and, in doing so, concentrates on the development there of Penguin Books. It proposes a model of this development mapped onto a... Read More about Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972.

Book Review: Susan Forde Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community MediaFordeSusanChallenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community MediaBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 214pp. ISBN 9780230243569 (hbk); 9780230243576 (pbk) (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Book Review: Susan Forde Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community MediaFordeSusanChallenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community MediaBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 214pp. ISBN 9780230243569 (hbk); 9780230243576 (pbk). Journalism, 13(8), 1102-1104. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884912446908

Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property? (2012)
Thesis
Ramdarshan Bold, M. Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5421

The aim of this study is to understand the operational practices of copyright exploitation and protection from the perspective of the Scottish publishing industry. The study begins with a historical overview of the development of copyright legislatio... Read More about Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?.

The Book in Germany. (2010)
Book
(2010). M. Fischer, & W. A. Kelly (Eds.), The Book in Germany. Merchiston Publishing

The articles in this edited collection trace the history of the book in Germany from the manuscript tradition through to the twentieth century. Contents:
1. Mary Fischer: Winning Hearts and Minds: the role of the written word in the crusades in nort... Read More about The Book in Germany..