Kathleen M Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen M Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9720-2773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interactive documentary and the archive
Interactive documentary, or i-doc, is a process becoming, one which eludes concise definitions or boundaries. It is grounded in practice based research, shaped by debates about who has access and who is excluded from the discussion. Judith Aston (Citation2016) notes the format allows for user engagement and participation of an almost-encyclopedic amount of data housed in a navigable virtual space, demonstrating a type of ‘embodied interaction.’ I…
Tell Me a Story
Interactive Documentary
Black Archives
The Photography Reader
"The Photography Reader: History and Theory, and The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency, and Identity, edited by Liz Wells." Visual Communication Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 118–119
Vertical video
Popular culture has critiqued ‘vertical video syndrome’, or video shot on smartphones in the portrait rather than landscape orientation, as something aesthetically unpleasing which should be avoided. But the design of smartphones seems to encourage shooting vertical video. This article examines the aesthetic desirability of vertical videos through applied media aesthetics. It traces the history of horizontal film and television orientations, as w…
The Heretical Archive
Uniform Matters
‘Don't miss your great opportunity’
During the Second World War, poster artists used visual metaphors to help promote actions and behaviour in the American public. Many campaigns were specifically targeted at women, encouraging them to enter the civilian and military workforce. This paper analyses the female recruitment poster campaigns of the Navy and Coast Guard. It argues that the posters successfully used specific visuals to counteract rumours about the character of military wo…
I Didn't Do Anything Important”
In the course of gathering oral histories from women who served in the Navy and Coast Guard during World War II, an unusual conversational pattern has emerged. The women almost invariably diminish the importance of their wartime contributions; a common refrain is “I didn’t do anything important.” Their individual experiences, as revealed during the interviews, belie that assertion. In this paper, I will use the women's words to parse what is mean…
The performative journalist
Television news operations are increasingly turning to freelance workers for newsroom staffing. This article traces the economic and industry conditions that led to the rise of a non-staff workforce. It proposes that US freelancers operate under a different paradigm from European or other freelancers, and analyzes results from a survey of news workers (freelance and staff) conducted in summer 2007. The survey uses intrinsic and extrinsic factors …
Transparent and Mysterious
In this article, the author puts theories about aesthetics, vision and looking into practice when considering Tomio Seike’s Untitled #3 (1995). The photograph’s subject (a bare arm, languidly stretched over a piece of furniture) draws the viewer to an initial assumption: that the photograph is of a nude woman. However, other visual clues in the photograph complicate that assumption, and help explain why, as a collector, the author was drawn to it…
The performative journalist
Television news operations are increasingly turning to freelance workers for newsroom staffing. This article traces the economic and industry conditions that led to the rise of a non-staff workforce. It proposes that US freelancers operate under a different paradigm from European or other freelancers, and analyzes results from a survey of news workers (freelance and staff) conducted in summer 2007. The survey uses intrinsic and extrinsic factors …
Vertical video
Popular culture has critiqued ‘vertical video syndrome’, or video shot on smartphones in the portrait rather than landscape orientation, as something aesthetically unpleasing which should be avoided. But the design of smartphones seems to encourage shooting vertical video. This article examines the aesthetic desirability of vertical videos through applied media aesthetics. It traces the history of horizontal film and television orientations, as w…
Transparent and Mysterious
In this article, the author puts theories about aesthetics, vision and looking into practice when considering Tomio Seike’s Untitled #3 (1995). The photograph’s subject (a bare arm, languidly stretched over a piece of furniture) draws the viewer to an initial assumption: that the photograph is of a nude woman. However, other visual clues in the photograph complicate that assumption, and help explain why, as a collector, the author was drawn to it…
I Didn't Do Anything Important”
In the course of gathering oral histories from women who served in the Navy and Coast Guard during World War II, an unusual conversational pattern has emerged. The women almost invariably diminish the importance of their wartime contributions; a common refrain is “I didn’t do anything important.” Their individual experiences, as revealed during the interviews, belie that assertion. In this paper, I will use the women's words to parse what is mean…
The performative journalist
Television news operations are increasingly turning to freelance workers for newsroom staffing. This article traces the economic and industry conditions that led to the rise of a non-staff workforce. It proposes that US freelancers operate under a different paradigm from European or other freelancers, and analyzes results from a survey of news workers (freelance and staff) conducted in summer 2007. The survey uses intrinsic and extrinsic factors …
‘Don't miss your great opportunity’
During the Second World War, poster artists used visual metaphors to help promote actions and behaviour in the American public. Many campaigns were specifically targeted at women, encouraging them to enter the civilian and military workforce. This paper analyses the female recruitment poster campaigns of the Navy and Coast Guard. It argues that the posters successfully used specific visuals to counteract rumours about the character of military wo…
Uniform Matters
The Heretical Archive
Vertical video
Popular culture has critiqued ‘vertical video syndrome’, or video shot on smartphones in the portrait rather than landscape orientation, as something aesthetically unpleasing which should be avoided. But the design of smartphones seems to encourage shooting vertical video. This article examines the aesthetic desirability of vertical videos through applied media aesthetics. It traces the history of horizontal film and television orientations, as w…
The Photography Reader
"The Photography Reader: History and Theory, and The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency, and Identity, edited by Liz Wells." Visual Communication Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 118–119
Interactive Documentary
Black Archives
Interactive documentary and the archive
Interactive documentary, or i-doc, is a process becoming, one which eludes concise definitions or boundaries. It is grounded in practice based research, shaped by debates about who has access and who is excluded from the discussion. Judith Aston (Citation2016) notes the format allows for user engagement and participation of an almost-encyclopedic amount of data housed in a navigable virtual space, demonstrating a type of ‘embodied interaction.’ I…
Tell Me a Story
Art (8 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)