This study analyses the position of Roma people in the former Yugoslavia using state and civil society discourse on human rights implementation. It reveals that states are failing to give sufficient prioritisation to tackling longstanding discrimination and oppression. Instead of positive the effects predicted by complementarity theory, the findings reveal ‘frame dis-alignment’ between politica...

This paper argues that theorizing computer-mediated communications as political engagement within a sociomaterial perspective, an understanding attentive to the mutual constitution of the social and material, allows researchers to conceptually analyze the unique political practices afforded by information and communication technologies and their function within a public sphere. This approach fo...

Building with a Memory is an experiential media system for capturing and representing dynamic human activity in a distributed workplace. Participants can perform purposefully, incidentally and unknowingly with the system, with individual and collective actions represented through a variety of ambient feedback mechanisms. Two iterations of the system are presented and observations and recommenda...

Judith Butler's "Gender performativity" starts with the deconstruction of subjectivity and denies certainty gender identity, then believes that identity is in a state floating flow through repeated performances. In Pride Prejudice Zombies, mash-up novel adapted from by American screenwriter Graham Smith 2009, heroine Elizabeth not given static "cultural marker", but process continuous construct...

Models not only represent but may also influence their targets in important ways. While models’ abilities to outcomes has been studied the context of economic models, often under label ‘performativity’, we argue that this phenomenon pertains epidemiological such as those used for forecasting trajectory Covid-19 pandemic. After identifying three ways which a model by Response Team at Imperial Co...