Outputs (227)

Television and the Second Screen (2016)
Book
Blake, J. (2016). Television and the Second Screen. Routledge

This book examines an emerging and fast evolving phenomena: that a growing number of people engage with two screens whilst watching television. It seems a simple concept – until we discover the important implications. In doing this, this book will mo... Read More about Television and the Second Screen.

Personalised TV ads are the future – but is it time to panic? (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Blake, J. (2015). Personalised TV ads are the future – but is it time to panic?

TV Advertising is evolving quickly. This article examines how the popularity of viewing content on mobile platforms is changing the way we advertise. VOD and OTT media services have meant that advertisers can now automate and personalise their TV a... Read More about Personalised TV ads are the future – but is it time to panic?.

Mobile Platforms and monetising the Second Screen. (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Blake, J. Mobile Platforms and monetising the Second Screen

Discussion paper commissioned by the RSE for its official working group on BBC Charter Renewal. The paper sought to investigate evolving mobile digital platforms and audience habits. Beyond this the research was intended to highlight areas where th... Read More about Mobile Platforms and monetising the Second Screen..

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.

Little reason to smile as Iannucci lays bare the tension between BBC and Tories. (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Blake, J. (2015). Little reason to smile as Iannucci lays bare the tension between BBC and Tories

Studying the impact of Armando Iannucci's McTaggart Lecture on the debate over the future of public service broadcasting in the UK.

Channelling expertise from Napier’s HCI group – human-centred knowledge transfer. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., Benyon, D., & Turner, S. (2003). Channelling expertise from Napier’s HCI group – human-centred knowledge transfer. In H. Johnson (Ed.), HCI 2003 - Designing for Society

The scope of the activities of Napier University’s HCI Group includes technology transfer, which led recently a national award. UCD is a typically mature set of ideas now ready for transfer, but as technology transfer gives way to knowledge transfer,... Read More about Channelling expertise from Napier’s HCI group – human-centred knowledge transfer..

Leaving Planet Earth (Follow-on Voucher Project). (2013)
Digital Artefact
Lambert, I., Innes, M., O'Dowd, A., Winton, E., & Blake, J. (2013). Leaving Planet Earth (Follow-on Voucher Project)

SFC FOLLOW-ON VOUCHER The project was undertaken as a SFC Follow-on Voucher (£40K) alongside a student project with BDes (Hons) Design & Digital Arts (D&DA).James Blake (Centre for Media & Culture) brought together students and staff to develop digi... Read More about Leaving Planet Earth (Follow-on Voucher Project)..

Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir. (2009)
Book
Gillanders, R. (2009). Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir. Birlinn

This book comprises a collection of 50 black and white photographs, together with biographical or descriptive details of subjects chosen during a ninety day journey in 2006, based on that taken by Edwin Muir, through the Scottish highlands. Contempor... Read More about Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir..

Quality Assurance in European Engineering Education: Present and Future Challenges (2009)
Book Chapter
Cowan, J. (2009). Quality Assurance in European Engineering Education: Present and Future Challenges. In A. Patil, & P. Gray (Eds.), Engineering Education Quality Assurance (29-40). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0555-0_2

This chapter focuses on the quality assurance (QA) of higher engineering education in the United Kingdom and Europe, by considering eight challenges which are predicted by the writer to be of increasing importance in the years ahead. QA in higher e... Read More about Quality Assurance in European Engineering Education: Present and Future Challenges.

Highland Journey 2006. (2007)
Exhibition / Performance
Gillanders, R. (2007). Highland Journey 2006. 30 September 2007 - 30 September 2007. (Unpublished)

The exhibition comprised photographs of the Scottish Highlands and Orkney Islands taken in 2006 on a journey inspired by and covering the same places as that made by the writer and poet Edwin Muir in 1934.

History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. (2007)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2007). History read backward: memory, migration and the archive. In A. Grossman, & A. O'Brien (Eds.), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (36-52). Wallflower Press

Drawing on recent cross-cultural debates in theories and practices of media representation and difference in the fields of cultural studies and visual anthropology, this work aims to think through, and alongside, images of migrancy. A section of the... Read More about History read backward: memory, migration and the archive..

Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. (2006). Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. Exhibited at New York, USA. 12 September 2006 - 1 November 2006. (Unpublished)

All for one. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. (2006). All for one. Exhibited at Edinburgh. 18 June 2006 - 18 June 2006. (Unpublished)

No abstract available.

Moving pictures: gender and the visualisation of life. (2006)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2006). Moving pictures: gender and the visualisation of life. In A. Patrizio, & D. Kemp (Eds.), Anatomy Acts: How we Come to Know Ourselves (63-77). Birlinn Press

The photographic portrait:  techniques, strategies and thoughts on making portraits with meaning. (2004)
Book
Gillanders, R. (2004). The photographic portrait:  techniques, strategies and thoughts on making portraits with meaning. David & Charles

The author comments on photographic portraits taken by him during a lifetime of commercial photography. In particular, he explains how he captured the essence, experience and character of his subjects rather than making likenesses.

The Philosopher's Garden. (2004)
Book
Gillanders, R., France, P., & Lawson, J. (2004). The Philosopher's Garden. National Galleries of Scotland

Senso (2004)
Book Chapter
Sellors, C. P. (2004). Senso. In G. Bertellini (Ed.), The Cinema of Italy (63-71). Wallflower Press

[Abstract unavailable.]

Re-reading Edward Weston. (2003)
Book Chapter
McGrath, R. (2003). Re-reading Edward Weston. In L. Wells (Ed.), The Photography Reader (327-337). Routledge

Labanotation: that Archie Gemmill goal. (2002)
Book
Gillanders, R., & Finlay, A. (2002). Labanotation: that Archie Gemmill goal. Pocketbooks

Take the greatest World Cup goal ever, the infamous Archie Gemmill goal from the 1978 Scotland v Netherlands game and transform it into dance. Labanotation records the notation of the goal, and three versions of the dance performed by leading Scottis... Read More about Labanotation: that Archie Gemmill goal..

Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body. (2002)
Book
McGrath, R. (2002). Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body. Manchester University Press

Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book questions how the visual representation of women has been used to remove women's bodies from varying discourses, especially in relation to the matter of generat... Read More about Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body..