Nic Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 285873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nic Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nic |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6240-0881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A moving view: An introduction to Our Sentimental Natures
Eliciting Narratives of Disorientation: A Methodological Exploration
This article offers a methodological framework for eliciting and reading narratives of, what sara ahmed has termed, disorientation.Drawing on the findings from a project on lesbian and queer women's orientation toward HIV objects, knowledges, and subject positions in australia, it concludes with a reflection on gathering "difficult" or "reluctant" narratives
Expertise and the Technological Object: Narrating Lived Experience of Deafness, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants in Online Forums
This article discusses the relationship between technological objects-specifically hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants-and the stories told about them on hearing-related blogs and online forums. We focus on accounts of lived experience written by deaf and hard of hearing people, and the ways they navigate competing narratives around expertise in relation to these objects. We discuss how these online "flash autobiographies" …
The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread
Since the 1980s, queer women have held a precarious position in HIV/AIDS discourse, often invisible or positioned in caring roles for others living with HIV. The voices of queer women who are themselves HIV-positive have been largely unrepresented. In this article, we examine artworks by Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread, contemporary artists who explicitly draw on their experiences as queer HIV-positive women. We trace the appearance of material…
Commodifying Diversity in the Marketing of a Digital Hearing Start-Up
This article will unpack the consequences of the convergence between hearing aids and mobile phones. It deploys an analysis of the marketing of two hearing and communication apps from one start-up: a smartphone-based hearing test and a music app which tweaks users’ audio to accommodate their hearing profile. This article argues that both apps and the marketing for them can be seen as examples of biomediation. Rather than marketing hearing apps th…
The Wilderness Diary
Gendered meanings, particularly around sentiment and attachment, shape hierarchies of value that organize our understandings of the creation, reproduction, and circulation of landscape photography. To explore these ideas, this article considers Australian wilderness diaries and calendars, which began to emerge in the late 1970s. Popular landscape photography is often derided as merely showing pristine, repetitive scenes: technically perfect shots…
Beyond TTM and ABC: A Practice Perspective on Physical Activity Promotion for Adolescent Females from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
This paper builds on a growing body of literature on the promise of practice theory in understanding and promoting behavior change in society and develops upon Blue (2017) and Spotswood et al.’s (2019) rationale for evolving theories of practice into the domain of contemporary physical activity research. We begin by considering the intersectional nature of the problem. Statistics reveal that physical activity gradients exist based on gender, as w…
Objects and Death: A Tentative Taxonomy
This essay will offer a reflective analysis of the role of inanimate objects in a parent’s experience of sudden death of a child, and that death’s aftermath. Death, in which, it could be argued, subjects become objects, people become things, is a key moment for thinking through the manifold relationships between the living and the not-alive. The essay moves towards a taxonomy of ways in which death and grief might mobilise and enliven the inanima…
Digital Storytelling and the Role of Meta-Orators in Institutional Listening
Listening to personal stories in health-related institutions is widely recognized as a challenging and potentially discomforting activity that often requires courage and resilience on the part of the listener. Through a series of international case studies of the ways stories are being listened to in health and social policy settings, and engagement with current listening literature, we identified four key “meta-oratory” roles at work in promotin…
The social spaces of hearing apps: Problems, Partners and Intermediaries
This article offers an analysis of the development of three hearing and communication apps, drawing on interviews with people involved in their production. While a central figure in the media studies literature on apps is the self-managing individual health consumer, this article argues that physical and social environments and relationships within them are central to the way the hearing apps are produced, circulated and used. Often emerging from…
Learning to listen: Epistemic injustice and gothic film in dementia care education
Listening is a critical and under-theorized dimension to struggles against injustice and marginalization. In the wake of critiques from the disability movement of the pre-eminence of expert medical voices, educating professionals to listen to health service users has become particularly critical. The utterances of people with dementia have frequently been subject to, in Miranda Fricker’s terms, “testimonial injustice”: that is, seen as irrational…
Understanding, Evidencing, and Promoting Adolescent Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Schools
The well-being of young people is of considerable concern with many initiatives targeting the health behaviors of this population. Educators are among the professional groups being challenged to understand, evidence, and enhance childhood well-being. Working with a case study U.K. school adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) was examined through the administering of the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC; n = 840) and focus groups …
Visualising ‘Unacceptable’ Lives? The Moving Story of Hikari to tomo ni (With the Light: (Raising an Autistic Child, 2001-2010)
In this article we will interrogate the notion of ‘the unacceptable’ by tracing the movement of a particular text – a series of manga novels by Keiko Tobe entitled Hikari to tomo ni (With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, 2001-2010) – from serialisation in a Japanese women’s magazine, to publication in Japanese as a series of manga novels, to publication in English in book form. In following this text – a narrative of parenting a child with a…
Health literacy in schools: Prioritising health and well-being issues through the curriculum
Health literacy (HL) is a relatively new concept in health promotion and is concerned with empowering people through enhancing their knowledge of health issues and improving their ability to make choices about their health and well-being. Schools are seen increasingly as key settings for the dissemination of health messages through curricula and other on-site provision. However, such opportunities are amongst many demands being placed on educatio…
Dancingustohersong: Enabling Embodiment and Voicing Disability in Heather Rose'sDance Me to My Song
In cultural texts, disabled people often function as an emblematic screen upon which non-disabled people's fears and anxieties are projected, rather than functioning as three-dimensional characters or representing disabled people's own experiences. Dance Me to My Song (hereafter Dance), is a rare exception. The film's star and co-author of its script, Heather Rose Slattery, who had cerebral palsy, did not want her film to be pigeonholed as a 'dis…
Anxiety and niceness: Drawing Disability Studies Into the Art and Design Curriculum Through a Live Brief
This article considers the way that affect shaped the unfolding of a curriculum initative which aimed to expose undergraduate art and design students to the insights of critical disability studies. This initiative, funded by the Big Lottery and managed by disability charity Scope, asked students in art, design and multimedia programmes in four UK higher education institutions to engage with a live brief: to develop inclusive illustrated children'…
Contesting representations of disabled children in picture-books: Visibility, the body and the social model of disability
This article will contribute to recent debates in disability studies over the place of the body within the social model of disability, currently a key theoretical tradition within British disability studies. It draws on interviews, focus groups, creative audience research and observation of a community arts project which took place in north-west England between 2005 and 2007. A central aim of the project, which was managed by a large disability c…
Confessions to a new public: Video Nation Shorts
Television made about `ordinary people' and featuring them speaking directly to the camera about their experiences has come to be a staple of popular broadcast television in the UK and elsewhere. This article focuses on one British series, Video Nation, produced between 1995 and 2000, which attempted to assemble a picture of the nation through the voices of such ordinary people. Where many more recent uses of `first person media' have situated th…
Transition or Translation: Thinking Through Media and Cultural Studies Students' Experiences after Graduation
This article uses Kevin Robins and Frank Webster's notion of 'instrumental progressivism' as a way of understanding the tensions between discipline-based academic staff and educational policy makers and developers within universities. Robins and Webster argue that contemporary educational orthodoxies bring together two disparate philosophies: progressive understandings of education as student-centred and lifelong and the view that higher educatio…
Disciplining Innovations
The editors of the 'Disciplining Innovations' issue introduce the theme
Confessions to a new public: Video Nation Shorts
Television made about `ordinary people' and featuring them speaking directly to the camera about their experiences has come to be a staple of popular broadcast television in the UK and elsewhere. This article focuses on one British series, Video Nation, produced between 1995 and 2000, which attempted to assemble a picture of the nation through the voices of such ordinary people. Where many more recent uses of `first person media' have situated th…
Digital Storytelling and the Role of Meta-Orators in Institutional Listening
Listening to personal stories in health-related institutions is widely recognized as a challenging and potentially discomforting activity that often requires courage and resilience on the part of the listener. Through a series of international case studies of the ways stories are being listened to in health and social policy settings, and engagement with current listening literature, we identified four key “meta-oratory” roles at work in promotin…
Health literacy in schools: Prioritising health and well-being issues through the curriculum
Health literacy (HL) is a relatively new concept in health promotion and is concerned with empowering people through enhancing their knowledge of health issues and improving their ability to make choices about their health and well-being. Schools are seen increasingly as key settings for the dissemination of health messages through curricula and other on-site provision. However, such opportunities are amongst many demands being placed on educatio…
Understanding, Evidencing, and Promoting Adolescent Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Schools
The well-being of young people is of considerable concern with many initiatives targeting the health behaviors of this population. Educators are among the professional groups being challenged to understand, evidence, and enhance childhood well-being. Working with a case study U.K. school adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) was examined through the administering of the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC; n = 840) and focus groups …
Dancingustohersong: Enabling Embodiment and Voicing Disability in Heather Rose'sDance Me to My Song
In cultural texts, disabled people often function as an emblematic screen upon which non-disabled people's fears and anxieties are projected, rather than functioning as three-dimensional characters or representing disabled people's own experiences. Dance Me to My Song (hereafter Dance), is a rare exception. The film's star and co-author of its script, Heather Rose Slattery, who had cerebral palsy, did not want her film to be pigeonholed as a 'dis…
Anxiety and niceness: Drawing Disability Studies Into the Art and Design Curriculum Through a Live Brief
This article considers the way that affect shaped the unfolding of a curriculum initative which aimed to expose undergraduate art and design students to the insights of critical disability studies. This initiative, funded by the Big Lottery and managed by disability charity Scope, asked students in art, design and multimedia programmes in four UK higher education institutions to engage with a live brief: to develop inclusive illustrated children'…
Contesting representations of disabled children in picture-books: Visibility, the body and the social model of disability
This article will contribute to recent debates in disability studies over the place of the body within the social model of disability, currently a key theoretical tradition within British disability studies. It draws on interviews, focus groups, creative audience research and observation of a community arts project which took place in north-west England between 2005 and 2007. A central aim of the project, which was managed by a large disability c…
Transition or Translation: Thinking Through Media and Cultural Studies Students' Experiences after Graduation
This article uses Kevin Robins and Frank Webster's notion of 'instrumental progressivism' as a way of understanding the tensions between discipline-based academic staff and educational policy makers and developers within universities. Robins and Webster argue that contemporary educational orthodoxies bring together two disparate philosophies: progressive understandings of education as student-centred and lifelong and the view that higher educatio…
Transition or Translation: Thinking Through Media and Cultural Studies Students' Experiences after Graduation
This article uses Kevin Robins and Frank Webster's notion of 'instrumental progressivism' as a way of understanding the tensions between discipline-based academic staff and educational policy makers and developers within universities. Robins and Webster argue that contemporary educational orthodoxies bring together two disparate philosophies: progressive understandings of education as student-centred and lifelong and the view that higher educatio…
Disciplining Innovations
The editors of the 'Disciplining Innovations' issue introduce the theme
Confessions to a new public: Video Nation Shorts
Television made about `ordinary people' and featuring them speaking directly to the camera about their experiences has come to be a staple of popular broadcast television in the UK and elsewhere. This article focuses on one British series, Video Nation, produced between 1995 and 2000, which attempted to assemble a picture of the nation through the voices of such ordinary people. Where many more recent uses of `first person media' have situated th…
Contesting representations of disabled children in picture-books: Visibility, the body and the social model of disability
This article will contribute to recent debates in disability studies over the place of the body within the social model of disability, currently a key theoretical tradition within British disability studies. It draws on interviews, focus groups, creative audience research and observation of a community arts project which took place in north-west England between 2005 and 2007. A central aim of the project, which was managed by a large disability c…
Anxiety and niceness: Drawing Disability Studies Into the Art and Design Curriculum Through a Live Brief
This article considers the way that affect shaped the unfolding of a curriculum initative which aimed to expose undergraduate art and design students to the insights of critical disability studies. This initiative, funded by the Big Lottery and managed by disability charity Scope, asked students in art, design and multimedia programmes in four UK higher education institutions to engage with a live brief: to develop inclusive illustrated children'…
Dancingustohersong: Enabling Embodiment and Voicing Disability in Heather Rose'sDance Me to My Song
In cultural texts, disabled people often function as an emblematic screen upon which non-disabled people's fears and anxieties are projected, rather than functioning as three-dimensional characters or representing disabled people's own experiences. Dance Me to My Song (hereafter Dance), is a rare exception. The film's star and co-author of its script, Heather Rose Slattery, who had cerebral palsy, did not want her film to be pigeonholed as a 'dis…
Health literacy in schools: Prioritising health and well-being issues through the curriculum
Health literacy (HL) is a relatively new concept in health promotion and is concerned with empowering people through enhancing their knowledge of health issues and improving their ability to make choices about their health and well-being. Schools are seen increasingly as key settings for the dissemination of health messages through curricula and other on-site provision. However, such opportunities are amongst many demands being placed on educatio…
Visualising ‘Unacceptable’ Lives? The Moving Story of Hikari to tomo ni (With the Light: (Raising an Autistic Child, 2001-2010)
In this article we will interrogate the notion of ‘the unacceptable’ by tracing the movement of a particular text – a series of manga novels by Keiko Tobe entitled Hikari to tomo ni (With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, 2001-2010) – from serialisation in a Japanese women’s magazine, to publication in Japanese as a series of manga novels, to publication in English in book form. In following this text – a narrative of parenting a child with a…
Understanding, Evidencing, and Promoting Adolescent Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Schools
The well-being of young people is of considerable concern with many initiatives targeting the health behaviors of this population. Educators are among the professional groups being challenged to understand, evidence, and enhance childhood well-being. Working with a case study U.K. school adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) was examined through the administering of the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC; n = 840) and focus groups …
Learning to listen: Epistemic injustice and gothic film in dementia care education
Listening is a critical and under-theorized dimension to struggles against injustice and marginalization. In the wake of critiques from the disability movement of the pre-eminence of expert medical voices, educating professionals to listen to health service users has become particularly critical. The utterances of people with dementia have frequently been subject to, in Miranda Fricker’s terms, “testimonial injustice”: that is, seen as irrational…
Digital Storytelling and the Role of Meta-Orators in Institutional Listening
Listening to personal stories in health-related institutions is widely recognized as a challenging and potentially discomforting activity that often requires courage and resilience on the part of the listener. Through a series of international case studies of the ways stories are being listened to in health and social policy settings, and engagement with current listening literature, we identified four key “meta-oratory” roles at work in promotin…
The social spaces of hearing apps: Problems, Partners and Intermediaries
This article offers an analysis of the development of three hearing and communication apps, drawing on interviews with people involved in their production. While a central figure in the media studies literature on apps is the self-managing individual health consumer, this article argues that physical and social environments and relationships within them are central to the way the hearing apps are produced, circulated and used. Often emerging from…
The Wilderness Diary
Gendered meanings, particularly around sentiment and attachment, shape hierarchies of value that organize our understandings of the creation, reproduction, and circulation of landscape photography. To explore these ideas, this article considers Australian wilderness diaries and calendars, which began to emerge in the late 1970s. Popular landscape photography is often derided as merely showing pristine, repetitive scenes: technically perfect shots…
Beyond TTM and ABC: A Practice Perspective on Physical Activity Promotion for Adolescent Females from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
This paper builds on a growing body of literature on the promise of practice theory in understanding and promoting behavior change in society and develops upon Blue (2017) and Spotswood et al.’s (2019) rationale for evolving theories of practice into the domain of contemporary physical activity research. We begin by considering the intersectional nature of the problem. Statistics reveal that physical activity gradients exist based on gender, as w…
Objects and Death: A Tentative Taxonomy
This essay will offer a reflective analysis of the role of inanimate objects in a parent’s experience of sudden death of a child, and that death’s aftermath. Death, in which, it could be argued, subjects become objects, people become things, is a key moment for thinking through the manifold relationships between the living and the not-alive. The essay moves towards a taxonomy of ways in which death and grief might mobilise and enliven the inanima…
Commodifying Diversity in the Marketing of a Digital Hearing Start-Up
This article will unpack the consequences of the convergence between hearing aids and mobile phones. It deploys an analysis of the marketing of two hearing and communication apps from one start-up: a smartphone-based hearing test and a music app which tweaks users’ audio to accommodate their hearing profile. This article argues that both apps and the marketing for them can be seen as examples of biomediation. Rather than marketing hearing apps th…
Expertise and the Technological Object: Narrating Lived Experience of Deafness, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants in Online Forums
This article discusses the relationship between technological objects-specifically hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants-and the stories told about them on hearing-related blogs and online forums. We focus on accounts of lived experience written by deaf and hard of hearing people, and the ways they navigate competing narratives around expertise in relation to these objects. We discuss how these online "flash autobiographies" …
The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread
Since the 1980s, queer women have held a precarious position in HIV/AIDS discourse, often invisible or positioned in caring roles for others living with HIV. The voices of queer women who are themselves HIV-positive have been largely unrepresented. In this article, we examine artworks by Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread, contemporary artists who explicitly draw on their experiences as queer HIV-positive women. We trace the appearance of material…
A moving view: An introduction to Our Sentimental Natures
Eliciting Narratives of Disorientation: A Methodological Exploration
This article offers a methodological framework for eliciting and reading narratives of, what sara ahmed has termed, disorientation.Drawing on the findings from a project on lesbian and queer women's orientation toward HIV objects, knowledges, and subject positions in australia, it concludes with a reflection on gathering "difficult" or "reluctant" narratives
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Art (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works)