Professor Jonathan Dovey

Professor: Screen Media
Research: New Media The Play Research Group

   

Before becoming an academic I worked in media practice producing documentary and experimental works located within the independent film movements of the 1980s, most notably founding the original mash up scratch video team Gorilla Tapes in 1984. Our work has recently been revived in shows at FACT Liverpool (2003), the Tate Modern (2004) and the ICA (2007). I have a continuing commitment to my own practice most recently through the development of the idea of digital cabaret with the rePublicof team, I am currently developing a web-based drama project. My creative practice informs my commitment to Practice Based Research - I am the editor of ScreenWork, the first peer reviewed journal of moving image to appear anywhere in the world.

I have taught at the University of Plymouth and at the University of Bristol where I was Head of Subject in the Department of Drama: Film, Theatre and Television. As well as teaching a range of moving image production modules I have also taught production in photography, installation, and digital interactive media. I have also taught a range of text based units including Introduction to Media Studies, Narrative, Film Studies, Documentary, Cyberculture, Games and New Media.

My research focus is on technology and cultural form and I have worked collaboratively with members of the UWE School of Cultural studies on a number of projects. I am a founding member of the Play Research Group. view website>>

Publications

Books
Game Cultures Dovey J & Kennedy H W Open University Press 2006
New Media - A Critical Introduction Lister M, Dovey J, Giddings S, Grant I and Kelly K. Routledge 2003
Freakshows - First Person Media And Factual TV Pluto Press July 2000.
Fractal Dreams, New Media In Social Context, edited collection, Lawrence And Wishart 1996.

Recent Chapters include:
Simulating the Public Sphere in Rethinking Documentary ed Austin T & de Jong W McGraw Hill forthcoming 2008
Why Am I in Vietnam ? The History of a Video Game in Videogame,Player,Text ed Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska MUP 2007
'Playing the Ring' Dovey & Kennedy in 'Branding the Ring' ed Mathijs E Wallflower Press/ Columbia 2006
Camcorder Cults in The Television Studies Reader eds Allen R & Hill A Routledge 2004 pp 557-568

Recent keynote papers include:
The Language of Mobile Media for the Hewlett Packard MSCape Conference Dec 4 2007 view website>>
Technicity Power Difference with Helen Kennedy 'Game In Action' Conference University of Goteborg Sweden June 2007
Mash Up And Mush Up - Resisting Immersion '(re)Actor' Digital Live Art Queen Mary's London (2006).
How Do You Play ? - Identity Technology and Ludic Culture 'Mindplay Conference' London Metropolitan University (2006)
'What Am I doing in Vietnam ?'Aesthetics of Play Conference University of Bergen(2005), view website>>

My current PhD supervisions are Norman Taylor - Digital Cinema. Ana Kronschnabl - Film for the Internet http://plugincinema.com/, Sy Taffel - New Media Ecologies and Tomas Rawlings& - Peer 2 Peer Cultures view website>>

I am interested in talking to potential doctoral candidates in the areas of play; user generated content; pervasive media. I am also interested in recruiting practice based doctoral students in digital media production.

My future research plans are to bring together the various researchers and digital media projects across the new Faculty of Creative Arts to launch the Digital Cultures Research Centre to be based at the Pervasive Media Studios in central Bristol. See www.ished.net/category/watershed/

Jonathan.Dovey@uwe.ac.uk

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