School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

Future postdoctoral research undertaken will look to examine further the changing shape of televisual form in a digital media environment, along with investigating the potential future of public service-oriented television/content.  Other potential avenues for further research include investigations of digital archives and archiving practices (including links to memory studies), promotional cultures and their relationships with digital media (i.e. Transmedia) and the evolving practices of digital historiography. 

I also hold an interest in Quality American Television, British Media History, Global Animation, World Cinema and Audience/Fan Studies.

Current Research

My doctoral research project, entitled Digital Spray, looks to examine the use of British youth television on Channel 4, along with the impact of new media viewing practices and convergent technologies upon it.  The research also seeks to include discussions of branding, fan cultures, media ephemera, archives/archive exploitation and British television history.

Publications

Chapters in Edited Books ^{[Back to top]}

"Digital Ash for a Digital Urn – Channel 4's struggle with multiplatforming digital public service."  Chapter to be published within Public Service Media in the Digital Age: International Perspectives (edited by Gulyas, A. (forthcoming), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press)

Journal Articles ^{[Back to top]}

"Remembering Forgotten Histories? Digital archives, televisual ephemera and challenging dominant discourses through the Wayback Machine."  Article under consideration by Scope - An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies (University of Nottingham).

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Book review of Transnational Television in Europe: Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks by Jean K. Chalaby (2009) New York and London: I.B. Tauris.  Published in Transnational Cinemas, March 2012, 2(2), Intellect Journals.

Conference Papers ^{[Back to top]}

"'Do Not Sleep' - How the forgotten history of Channel 4's late-night TV articulates the neglected aspirations and future directions of a broadcaster in flux."  Presented at CEISR/CSL/CCCR Postgraduate Study Day: Diversity, Change and Imagination, University of Portsmouth, Wednesday 16th May 2012.

"Digital Ash for a Digital Urn – 360 Degree Commissioning, Multiplatform Branding  and how Educational Broadcasting Projects Offer Fanfare, But Little Fandom."  Presented at Audiences, Users and Producers of Public Service Content: An International Symposium, Canterbury Christ Church University, Wednesday 23rd May 2012.

"Digital Ash for a Digital Urn – 360 Degree Commissioning, Multiplatform Branding  and how Educational Broadcasting Projects Offer Fanfare, But Little Fandom." (Abridged paper).  Presented at CCI Research Opportunities - The Conversation, University of Portsmouth, Friday 22nd June 2012.

"Remembering Forgotten Histories? Digital archives, televisual ephemera and challenging dominant discourse through the Wayback Machine."  Presented at MeCCSA-PGN 2012 Conference, Loughborough University, Tuesday 18th  September 2012.