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This article argues for the dark-ecological podcast, characterised by emergent aesthetics of uncanniness, pervasive anxiety, bodily permeability, and a complex relationship to the ‘local,’ all explored with dark ecology in mind.
Revenant: Critical and Cultural Studies of the Supernatural, special issue on Multiplatform Horror [forthcoming].
Read moreThis paper proposes considerations and contexts for teaching the post-conflict text relative to broader movements in literary studies, digital humanities, media studies, and postcolonial studies, using Belfast writer Ciaran Carson’s texts as a point of focus.
Pedagogy 21 [forthcoming]
Read moreSome textual strategies in contemporary writing indicate a changing relationship between informational and material structures. This paper explores these in the work of Belfast writer Ciaran Carson, suggesting that informational networks are allowing personhood to take new forms with chaotic, complex dynamics.
Textual Practice 31, no. 7 (2017): 1417-1434.
Read moreThis article constructs a transmedia topology of Making a Murderer, mapping ecologies of interaction, participation and creation between text and audience, to trace the thresholds of the transmedial text and investigate new approaches to analysing nonfiction transmedia. Note: This article is currently being translated into Spanish for an anthology on American television, by researchers at the National University in Mexico.
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 5, no. 10 (2016): 124-139.
Read moreThis paper foregrounds the importance of systems comprehension to engaging consumers in sustainable energy practices, arguing that interactive (online) games engage consumers while also demonstrating complex system dynamics through simulation.
Futures 81 (2016): 119-129.
Read moreA discussion of how rewilding, or the restoration of wild spaces in ecological contexts, has analogues in contemporary writing and critical studies. A view of how modern epistemologies defer to complexity as the "natural" form of cultural and biological processes.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies18.2 (2016).
Read moreHow can sustainable energy projects increase engagement from consumers using interactive media communications? To answer this complex question, the authors conducted a systematic literature review, synthesising findings across planning, energy, marketing, policy, and interactive media to identify challenges for engagement, and emergent solutions, for engaging consumers with sustainable energy.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2015): pp. 1611-1621.
Read moreIn the era of hyperspace, geographic identity changes ... but how? This paper explores relationships between the digital and the (post)national, looking to Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson as an illustration of a new, "open-source" geographical identity that is written, appropriately, in code.
Nordic Irish Studies 10 (2011): p 15-33.
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