Jonathan Dovey
Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media and Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre.
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).
Since returning to UWE in 2008 I have been working with the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol and working on setting up the Research Centre with colleagues in the Faculty of Creative Arts at UWE. I have previously 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.
I am a Knowledge Transfer Fellow at the the Pervasive Media Studio 2010-2011. This project is a research programme into the the Aesthetics and Value of Pervasive Media innovations. My practice based work is with Rik Lander and Greg Browning in the media innovation company 'You Are Here'. You can find me giving a keynote at Nottingham University's Ephemeral Media conference on YouTube. My research focus is on technology and cultural form and I have worked collaboratively with members of the UWE School of Culture, Media and Drama on a number of projects. I am a founding member of the Play Research Group.
My books are:
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 2000
Fractal Dreams: New Media In Social Context, ed. Dovey J, Lawrence and Wishart 1996
Recent Chapters include:
"Simulating the Public Sphere" in Rethinking Documentary eds Austin T & de Jong W, McGraw Hill 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 Challenge of New Media, Conference for AMD-HEA Dec 2008 and later published as "Straw Men or Cyborgs?" Dovey J & Lister M 2009 Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 1 (1), Intellect Press
The Language of Mobile Media for the Hewlett Packard MSCape Conference Dec 4 2007
Technicity: Power and Difference in Game Cultures (with Helen Kennedy) Game In Action Conference University of Goteborg Sweden June 2007
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), http://www.aestheticsofplay.org/
My current PhD supervisees are:
Sy Taffel
Michalis Theodorou
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.
