media studies - I Built My Own Education

July 29, 2024

Component 2 of Dabbling with Creative Technologies is now up

Component 2 is all about my Ways 2 Interface research project, study log and personal journal. As with all the ‘components’ of Dabbling with Creative Technologies,...

July 18, 2024

Why #2Interface: expanding my focus + focusing my interests = mastering the enterprising researcher

Blog post originally published in 2014. In truth, Ways 2 Interface is the presentation and exploration of a very broad research interest, opposed to being a research project in...

July 17, 2024

Complexity Specific Accuracy from the Outset: The Perceiving Participator and the Spectacle Experiencing Situation

Blog post originally published in 2014. What do we mean or what should we mean when we talk of a 'spectator' and a 'spectacle'? In this post I provide an example of a...

July 17, 2024

Consuming while being content: 'consumer' + 'content' = IDEAL?

Blog post originally published in 2014. From the cave walls of long ago, via digital content creation, 'Batman Begins', 'The Dark Knight' and Apple, to the ideal at the heart...

July 15, 2024

Spectatorship redux: why we need to re-understand the spectator and the spectacle

Blog post originally published 2014. "I am going to watch a film," when this common statement is expressed, you are exerting a fundamental ignorance hardwired into the human...

July 15, 2024

Welcome #2interface: Something New and Fantastic!

Blog post originally published in 2014. For Creatives, Brand Builders, Academics, Enterprisers and anyone who is interested in how their life is shaped by stories and how...

June 16, 2024

NeuroPsychoCinematics

NeuroPsychoCinematics is a research focus in which I hold a great deal of interest. It builds on the speculations I laid down in my BA (Hons) theoretical dissertation, Ways of...

June 13, 2024

Constructive Film Studies

"If the study of film just becomes film history, then film will be history!" - Me, Breaking Cinema with a Selfie Stick Constructive Film Studies, a.k.a. Film Studies 2.0, is my...

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