As part of my PhD thesis on smartphone storytelling, I’m creating a locative audio narrative designed to be experienced while listeners walk through London’s Brompton Cemetery. The work engages with the many stories that lie buried in the cemetery alongside their owners, weaving them into a fiction that gives the listener a role to play…
Category: research
Impact and the research-and-practice PhD (i): some definitions of impact
Last week, I gave a paper at the Bath Spa University Early Stage Researchers Conference. The theme of the conference was impact, and my paper attempted to explore what impact might look like for a PhD like mine, combining research and practice in the humanities. This post comprises a reworked version of the first part…
REACTive Publishing: innovation at the Hub
As our industry becomes increasingly hybrid – ever more digital, yet still significantly paper-based – the necessity to innovate is a growing problem for publishers. With revenues squeezed by falling prices and decreasing margins, innovation becomes more vital than ever: if we are to survive, publishers need to find new methods of working, new types…
The Future of Publishing Report
In 2011, I was commissioned by Media Futures to research and produce what became the Future of Publishing report. I include an excerpt from it here. To download the full report from Media Futures, click here. Shaping the Future Articles, reports, and conferences on the future of publishing are increasingly common; genuinely useful insights into…
The pressfuturist manifesto 