Publications

Key Findings & Policy Recommendations

• ‘Digital By Default’ strand

Working Papers of the Communities & Culture Network+  (ISSN 2052-7268)

Vol.8, July 2016

• Birchall, C., ‘Digital Networks of Political Action.’
• Bassett, C. and Zenerian, E., ‘End of Project Report: Plenty as a response to austerity?.’
• Ford, H., ‘The Person in the (Big) Data: A Selection of Innovative Methods, Strategies and Perspectives for Social Research in the Age of (Big) Data.’
• Gómez Cruz, E. & Thornham, H., ‘Staging the Hack(athon), Imagining innovation: An ethnographic approach.’
• Hodkinson, S., Turner, A. & Essen, C., ‘Exploring the Impacts and Implications of a Changing UK Welfare State under Digitalisation and Austerity: the Case of Leeds.’
• Jackson, T., ‘The Multisensory Archive as an Ethnographic Research Method: Final Report.

Vol.7, March 2016

• Ewart, I. & Harty, C., ‘Creating a Virtual Museum: Final Report.’
• Frohlich, D. & Spence, J., ‘Storytelling for Development: Final Report.’
• Gulyas, A., ‘Social media adoption in small non-profit organisations: Policy Report.’
• Gulyas, A., ‘Social media adoption in small non-profit organisations.’
• Kuntsman, A. & Miyake, E. 2016, ‘Paradoxes of Digital dis/engagement: a follow up study (businesses and services).’ Working Papers of the Communities & Culture Network+ Vol.7 (March 2016).
• McKenna, G. & Edwards, L., ‘Giving Social Action a Voice: Final Report.’
• O’Riordan, K. ‘Wearable Biosensors: Interim Report.’
• Woods, M. et al. ‘Storystorm: Communities with an urgent story to tell. Final Report.’

Vol.6, Oct 2015

• Barr, M., ‘Games for Communication Final Report.‘
• Duggan, J. & Lindley, J., ‘Sans Duty: Making Tax Visible. Final Report.’
• Edwards, L., ‘Interrogating the complexities of digital communication for young people engaged in social action. Final Report.’
• Ewart, I. & Harty, C. ‘Creating a Virtual Museum. Interim Report.’
• Frohlich, D. & Spence, J., ‘Storytelling for Development: Interim Report.’
• Gómez Cruz, E. & Thornham, H., ‘[In]Visible and un/fixed Communities: Living with the Welfare Reforms. Final Report.‘
• Harte, D. (ed.), ‘A Manifesto for Digital Messiness.’
• Ivinson, G., ‘The Maritime Project at Gourdon Primary School.’
• Kozachenko, I., ‘Bad news for Putin as support for war flags beyond Russia’s ‘troll farms’.’
• Kuntsman, A. & Miyake, E., ‘Paradoxes of Digital dis/engagement: Final Report.’
• Lambie-Mumford, H. & Snell, C., ‘Heat or Eat: Food and Austerity in Rural England. Executive Summary.’
• Lambie-Mumford, H. & Snell, C., ‘Heat or Eat: Food and Austerity in Rural England. Final Report.’
• Luguzan, C., ‘SAVING ROSIA MONTANA: Online networks of protest.’
• McLaverty, P. et al., ‘New Radicals: Digital Political Engagement in Post-Referendum Scotland. Final Report.’
• McLaverty, P. et al. ‘New Radicals? Digital Political Engagement in Post-Referendum Scotland. Interim Report.’
• Mowlabocus, S., ‘Reaching Out Online: Moving On. Final Report.’
• Perry, B. et al., ‘Putting Food Banks Out of Business: Final Report.’
• Surman, E. et al. ‘Beyond the food bank: using digital technology to escape food poverty.’ Final Report.’
• Townsend, L., ‘Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age: Final Report.’
• Tucker, I. & Goodings, L. ‘Social Media and Austerity: Online Peer Support in Mental Health Communities. Follow on Project Final Report.’

Vol.5, April 2015

• Bassett, C., ‘Plenty as a Response to Austerity: Interim Report.’
• Bragg, S. & Edmond, N., ‘Teacher Professional Learning Networks and the ‘politics of circulation’: Final Report.’
• Cruikshank, P., & Ryan, B., ‘Hyperlocal Government Engagement Online: Final Report.’
• Gulyás, A., ‘Social Media and Community Volunteering: Final Report.’
• Hodkinson, S. et al., ‘Exploring Digital Transformations of Community, Culture and Welfare in Austere Times: the Case of Leeds. Interim Report’.
• Howland, K. & Roig, A., ‘Plugin Narratives: Final Report.’
• Lambie-Mumford, H. Snell, C. & Dowler, E., ‘Heat or Eat: Food and Austerity in Rural England. Interim Report’.
• Montgomerie, J. et al. 2014b, ‘Digital Technologies of Debt Resilience: Final Report.’
• O’Riordan, K. & Fotopoulou, A., ‘Sustaining Networked Knowledge: Final Report‘.
• Perry, B. et al., ‘Putting Food Banks Out of Business: Interim report.’
• Surman et al., ‘Beyond the food bank: using digital technologies to escape food poverty. Interim Report.’
• Thomas, H. et al., ‘Girls Making History: Final Report.’
• Tucker, I. et al. ‘Social Media and Austerity: Final Report.’
• Tsatsou, P., ‘The Role of Digital Technologies in Social Research in the UK: Final Report.’

Vol.4, Oct 2014

• Allen, William L., ‘Big Talk about Big Data: Discourses of ‘Evidence’ and Data in British Civil Society: Seed Final Report’
• Harte, D., ‘New Knowledge Networks in Communities: Seed Final Report’
• Kozachenko, I., ‘How social media transformed pro-Russian nostalgia into violence in Ukraine‘.
• McDermont, M. et al., ‘Girls Making History: Pilot Interim Report’.
• Montgomerie, J. et al. 2014a, ‘Digital Technologies of Debt Resilience: Interim Report.’
• Nikolopoulou, M. & Martin, K. Capturing the Lived Experience of Foodbank Clients and Volunteers: Final Report‘.
• Phillips, A., ‘Accessing and Consuming News: How Young People Find News in a Networked Society: Seed Final Report’.
• Thornham, H. et al.  [In]Visible and un/fixed Communities: Living with the Welfare Reforms. Scoping Interim Report
• Tucker, I. et al., ‘Social Media & Austerity: Pilot Interim Report.’

Vol.3, April 2014

• Byrne, K. , ‘Event Mining in Our Rural Past.’
• Dowler, E. & Lambie-Mumford, H., ‘Food Aid: Living with Food Insecurity. Seed Final Report‘.
• Fotopoulou, A. & O’Riordan, K., ‘Sustaining Networked Knowledge: Network Interim Report’.
• Harley, D. et al.,  ‘Trajectories to Community Engagement: Understanding older people’s experiences of engagement with online and local communities. Pilot Final Report’.
• Kennedy, H. et al., ‘Digital Data Analysis, Public Engagement and the Social Life of Methods: Pilot Final Report’.
• Mowlabocus, S. et al.,  ‘Reaching Out Online: Digital Literacy and the Uses of Social Media in Health Promotion. Pilot Final Report’.
• Tait, E. & Laing, R., ‘Community engagement and participation with 3D cultural heritage visualisations. Final Seed Report.’
• Vis, F. et al., ‘Everyday Growing Cultures in the North of England: Participation, Citizenship and Local Economies. Final Pilot Report’.
• Woods, M. et al. ‘StoryStorm, Communities with an urgent story to tell: Network Interim Report’.

Vol.2, Oct 2013

• Beel, D. ‘CCN+ Horizon Scanning – Aotearoa / New Zealand, May 2013‘.
• Kennedy, H. et al., ‘Digital Data Analysis, Public Engagement and the Social Life of Methods: Pilot Interim Report’.
• Kennedy, H. et al., ‘Guide to tools for social media & web analytics and insights’.
• Thornham, H., ‘Communities and Culture Network Annual Report 25 10 13‘.
• Kozachenko, I., ‘Horizon Scanning Report: ICT and Migration‘.
• Thornham, H. et al., ‘Report from San Francisco and Chicago: March 2013‘.
• Vis, F. et al., ‘Everyday Growing Cultures in the North of England: Pilot Interim Report‘.

Vol.1, April 2013

• Colemann, S. et al., ‘Public Engagement & Cultures of Expertise Scoping Report‘.
• Nikolopoulou, M. & Martin, K., ‘Cultural Heritage & Built Environment Scoping Report‘.
• Wallace, C. & Vincent, K., ‘Everyday Life & Cultural Communities Scoping Report‘.
• Bassett, C. et al., ‘Expertise’ Scoping Report.

Other publications

Ardèvol, E. & Gómez Cruz, E. (2013). ‘Digital Ethnography and Media’, in  Darling-Wolf, F. (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies: Research Methods in Media Studies (Vol. 7). Wiley-Blackwell.

— (2012). ‘Digital technologies in the process of social research: theoretical and methodological reflections through virtual ethnography’, ‘n Knowledge Politics and Intercultural Dynamics. Actions, Innovations, Transformations. CIDOB/CEPAL: Barcelona.

Bassett, C. (2013). ‘Silence, Delirium Lies’, in  Lovink, G. &  Rasch, M. (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures,  pp.146-159.

Bassett, C. (2013), ‘Silence, Delirium, Lies’, First Monday, Vol. 18, No.3-4.  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4617/3420.

Bassett, C. & Fotopoulou, A. (2015), ‘Expertise: A Report and A Manifesto’. Convergence Vol.21, no.3, pp.328-342.

Bassett, C., Gómez Cruz, E. & Thornham, H., ‘Necessary expertise?’ Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, pp. 289-293.

Bassett, C., Steinmueller, E. & Voss, G. (2013), ‘Better Made Up: The Mutual Influence of Science Fiction and Innovation’. Nesta Working Paper Series No. 13/07. http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/bettermadeup.pdf.

Estalella, A. & Sanchez-Criado, T. (2015), ‘Experimental collaborations: An invocation for the redistribution of social research’. Convergence, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 301-305.

Fotopoulou, A. (2013). ‘Remediating Politics: Brand(ed) New Sexualities and Real Bodies Online’. Journal of Lesbian Studies Vol. 17, 3-4, 2013, pp. 253-266.

Gómez Cruz, E. (2013b). ‘Trayectorias (sobre ruedas): un ensayo visual sobre los carritos de supermercado en la ciudad’. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia Vol.2, No.2.

Gómez Cruz, E. (2013a). ‘Más allá del álbum fotográfico: (des)materializaciones y memoria en la fotografía digital’, in P. Vicente (Ed.), Álbum de familia (re)presentación, (re)creación e (in)materialidad de las fotografías familiares (pp. 175-182). Madrid: La Oficina.

Gómez Cruz, E. (2012).  ‘La fotografía digital como una estética sociotécnica: el caso de la Iphoneografía’. Aiesthesis 52: Santiago de Chile.

Gómez Cruz, E., & Ardèvol, E. (2013b). ‘Ethnography and the Field in Media(ted) Studies: A Practice Theory Approach’. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Vol.9 no.3, pp.27-45.

Gómez Cruz, E. & Ardèvol, E. (2013a). ‘Performing Photography Practices in Everyday Life. Some ethnographic notes from a Flickr group’. Photographies 6 (1).

Gómez Cruz, E. & Thornham, H. (2015), ‘“Raw talent in the making”: Imaginary journeys, authorship and the discourses of expertise’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 314-327.

Hills, M. (2015), ‘The expertise of digital fandom as a ‘community of practice’: Exploring the narrative universe of Doctor Who’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 360-374.

Kennedy, H. and Moss, G. (2014, in preparation) ‘Can analytics be “really useful”?’ (for submission to Big Data and Society).

Kennedy, H.  et al. (2014, submitted) ‘The numbers do not speak for themselves: the rhetoric and practice of big data analysis’. Information Communication and Society.

Kubitschko, S. (2015), ‘Hackers’ media practices: Demonstrating and articulating expertise as interlocking arrangements’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 388-402.

Lepa, S., Hoklas, A.-K., Egermann, H. & Weinzierl, S., ‘Sound, materiality and embodiment challenges for the concept of ‘musical expertise’ in the age of digital mediatization’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, pp. 294-300

Meyer, E. T. (2015), ‘The expert and the machine: Competition or convergence?’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 306-313.

Moss et al. (2014, in preparation) ‘Enacting ‘the public’ through digital data: digital analytics and public engagement’ (for submission to Journal of Information Technology and Polity).

Mowlabocus, S., Harbottle, J., Tooke, B., Haslop, C. & Dasgupta, R. K. (2015), ‘“Because even the placement of a comma might be important”: Expertise, filtered embodiment and social capital in online sexual health promotion’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 375-387.

San-Cornelio, G., & Gómez Cruz, E. (2014). ‘Co-creation and Participation as a Means of Innovation in New Media:  An Analysis of Creativity in the Photographic Field’. International Journal of Communication Vol.8, pp.1-20.

Tait, E., MacLeod, M., Beel, D., Wallace, C., Mellish, C. & Taylor, S.(2013) ‘Linking to the past: an analysis of community digital heritage initiatives’. Aslib Proceedings Vol. 65 Iss: 6, pp.564 – 580.

Thornham, H. (2013) ‘Claiming ‘creativity’: discourse, ‘doctrine’ or participatory practice?‘ International Journal of Cultural Policy, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2013.865729.

Thornham, H. (2013) Digital Welfare Only Deepens the Class Divide. The Conversation, 8th July 2013: http://theconversation.com/digital-welfare-only-deepens-the-class-divide-15828

Thornham, H. & McFarlane, A. (2014), ‘Claiming Content & Constructing Users: UGC and BBC Blast’, in Buckingham, D., Bragg S., & Kehily, M.J. (eds.) Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media (Palgrave MacMillan), p.186-201.

Thornham, H. & McFarlane, A. (2013) ‘Articulating Technology & Imagining the User: Generating gendered divides across media’ in Thornham, H. & Weissmann, E. (ed.) Renewing Feminism: Narratives, fantasies and futures. IBTauris.

Thornham, H. & Parry, K. (2014) ‘Constructing Communities:  The Community Centre as Contested Site’. Community Development Journal 49, pp.1-16.

Thornham, H.  & Popple, S. (ed.) (2013) Content Cultures: Transformations of user generated content in Public Service Broadcasting. IBTauris.

Thornham, H. & Weissmann (ed.) (2013) Renewing Feminism: Narratives, fantasies and futures. IBTauris.

Toft-Nielsen, C. & Norgard, R. T. (2015), ‘Expertise as gender performativity and corporeal craftsmanship: Towards a multilayered understanding of gaming expertise’. Convergence, Aug 2015, Vol. 21, no.3, pp. 343-359.

Townsend, L. (2015), ‘Cross Currents Workshop, Bangalore, India. Blog post, Leanne Townsend: Research, http://leannetownsend.com/2015/01/23/cross-currents-workshop-bangalore-india/

Townsend, L., Wallace, C. & Fairhurst, G. (2015). ‘‘Stuck Out Here’: The Critical Role of Broadband for Remote Rural Places’. Scottish Geographical Journal Vol.131 (3-4), pp.171-180.

Townsend, L. C., Sathiaseelan, A., Fairhurst, G. & Wallace, C. (2013). ‘Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide’. Local Economy Vol.28 (6), pp. 580-595.

Vis, F. (2013) ‘A critical reflection on Big Data: Considering APIs, researchers and tools as data makers’. First Monday Vol.18 (10), http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4878/3755

Wallace, C. D. (2013) ‘Disused loos and elbow grease break BT broadband monopoly’. The Conversation, 7th October 2013: http://theconversation.com/disused-loos-and-elbow-grease-break-bt-broadband-monopoly-18891

Wallace, C. D. (2012), ‘Can Information and Communications Technology Enhance Social Quality?’ International Journal of Social Quality 2 (2), pp.98-117.

Wallace, C. & Vincent, K., (2016, forthcoming). ‘Community wellbeing and information technology’, in Lee, S. J., Kim, Y. & Phillips, R. (eds.). Community Wellbeing and Community Development, Dordrecht: Springer.

Wallace, C. D., Vincent, K., Luguzan, C. T. & Talbot-Ponsonby, H. C. (2015). ‘Community Broadband Initiatives: what makes them successful and why?’. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, pp. 109-117.

Online

Gómez Cruz, E. & Lehmuskallio, A. ‘Nordic Research Network for Digital Visuality and Communities and Culture Network+ collaboration on digital visuality’, 24th Jan 2014.

Thornham, H. ‘Digital welfare only deepens the class divide’, article in The Conversation, 8th July 2013.

Thornham, H. ‘You can’t write a CV on a smartphone – digital literacy is no help to unemployed youth’, The Conversation, 20th August 2014.

— ‘Engagement, Expertise and the Everyday or the Problems of a Tooling-Up Approach’. Communities in the Digital Age Symposium, 12th June 2013.

‘Vis, F. ‘The Transformative Potential of Gardening with Data’. Guest post on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog 18th July 2013.

Vis, F. et al. ‘Everyday Growing Cultures Toolkit‘. 3rd Feb 2014.

Wallace, C. & Vincent, K., ‘Community Broadband Initiatives‘, 19th Nov 2014.

February Symposium, 2013

• Digital Data Analysis, public engagement, and the social life of methods
• Everyday Growing Cultures in the North of England: participation, citizenship and local economies
• Sustaining Networked Knowledge: expertise, feminist media production, art and activism
• StoryStorm
• Social Quality in ICT
• Public Engagement & Cultures of Expertise
• Social & Spatial Thresholds of the BBC Big Screens

MeCCSA 2013

•  ‘No Such Thing as Community’: community’: mapping discourses of digital transformation and expectation in the cultural and civic spaces of Leeds (MeCCSA 2013 – Dr Helen Thornham & Dr Katy Parry, University of Leeds).

Discourses of Public Engagement Workshop, Sept 2013

• Creative Citizenship
• Cultural Intermediation in the Creative Urban Economy
• Understanding Everyday Participation

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