Dafydd Sills-Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dafydd Sills-Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dafydd |
| FAMILY NAME | Sills-Jones |
| SIGNATURE | SILLS-JONES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8611-7709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Documentary Filmmaking and Multilingualism – A Dialogue on Practice
This interview explores Alastair Cole’s multilingual documentary filmmaking as a research practice that contributes to minority language rights, revitalisation, and ethnopolitical visibility. It argues that documentary cinema offers unique insights into linguistic hierarchies, code-switching, and the lived effects of language policy. Case studies such as Colours of the Alphabet and Iorram demonstrate how film engages with colonial legacies, educa…
Minority Languages and Documentary Media
The relationship between documentary media and minority languages is both politically significant and ethically complex.Documentary has long occupied a distinctive position within public culture as a form associated with testimony, representation, and the mediation of lived realities.Yet language within documentary is never neutral.The inclusion, exclusion, translation, or framing of language -and of languages -shapes not only how audiences under…
Mobile innovation and mobile creativity
Mobile media, mobility, mobile creative arts and mobile communication have significantly shaped the way we live, work, tell stories and how we are creative and stay innovative. Inspired by the trans-disciplinary impact of mobile media, this special issue reflects on developments in creative mobile media practice, including mobile studies, mobile communication, and mobile experience. Based on the discussions and presentations at the University of …
Exploring Bilinguality, Agility, and Agency in a Welsh Classroom through Mobile Media-making
This video article reports on a film-making pilot study with a group of eleven- to twelve-year-olds, conducted in a bilingual (Welsh-English) secondary school in West Wales, in 2023. The study sought to explore how mobile media-making technology and creative processes might fit into the Expressive Arts Area of Learning and Experience (specifically, the ‘Film and Digital Media’ strand of the subject area) in the Curriculum for Wales (2022). It als…
Before the history boom
This article seeks to examine the notion of a 'history boom' on UK television (TV) during the second half of the 1990s and 2000s. It does this by sampling the UK TV schedule between 1982 and 2012, presenting material from interviews with leading producers and commissioners, and conducting an analysis of key programmes. What emerges is the contrary notion of a 'history dip' between the late 1980s and early1990s, which in turn reveals an earlier hi…
Before the history boom
This article seeks to examine the notion of a 'history boom' on UK television (TV) during the second half of the 1990s and 2000s. It does this by sampling the UK TV schedule between 1982 and 2012, presenting material from interviews with leading producers and commissioners, and conducting an analysis of key programmes. What emerges is the contrary notion of a 'history dip' between the late 1980s and early1990s, which in turn reveals an earlier hi…
Before the history boom
This article seeks to examine the notion of a 'history boom' on UK television (TV) during the second half of the 1990s and 2000s. It does this by sampling the UK TV schedule between 1982 and 2012, presenting material from interviews with leading producers and commissioners, and conducting an analysis of key programmes. What emerges is the contrary notion of a 'history dip' between the late 1980s and early1990s, which in turn reveals an earlier hi…
Exploring Bilinguality, Agility, and Agency in a Welsh Classroom through Mobile Media-making
This video article reports on a film-making pilot study with a group of eleven- to twelve-year-olds, conducted in a bilingual (Welsh-English) secondary school in West Wales, in 2023. The study sought to explore how mobile media-making technology and creative processes might fit into the Expressive Arts Area of Learning and Experience (specifically, the ‘Film and Digital Media’ strand of the subject area) in the Curriculum for Wales (2022). It als…
Documentary Filmmaking and Multilingualism – A Dialogue on Practice
This interview explores Alastair Cole’s multilingual documentary filmmaking as a research practice that contributes to minority language rights, revitalisation, and ethnopolitical visibility. It argues that documentary cinema offers unique insights into linguistic hierarchies, code-switching, and the lived effects of language policy. Case studies such as Colours of the Alphabet and Iorram demonstrate how film engages with colonial legacies, educa…
Minority Languages and Documentary Media
The relationship between documentary media and minority languages is both politically significant and ethically complex.Documentary has long occupied a distinctive position within public culture as a form associated with testimony, representation, and the mediation of lived realities.Yet language within documentary is never neutral.The inclusion, exclusion, translation, or framing of language -and of languages -shapes not only how audiences under…
Mobile innovation and mobile creativity
Mobile media, mobility, mobile creative arts and mobile communication have significantly shaped the way we live, work, tell stories and how we are creative and stay innovative. Inspired by the trans-disciplinary impact of mobile media, this special issue reflects on developments in creative mobile media practice, including mobile studies, mobile communication, and mobile experience. Based on the discussions and presentations at the University of …
Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (2 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Boom (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Creativity (1 work) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 work)