Tara Chittenden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3065912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Chittenden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Chittenden |
| SIGNATURE | CHITTENDEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Multiple Sclerosis Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5660-5426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Foraging for fashion’s future
In reaction to the climate crisis, we have seen the emergence of environmental fashion trends that seek to limit energy use and cut emissions, with the aim of building sustainability. The provocation to design in concert with our biosphere is driving fashion designers to renegotiate our relationship with living systems in the quest for innovative ecological design models. This article explores the transformative coupling of fungi fabric and fashi…
Weaving Climate
Fashioning fire hose
Among the scrapheap of society’s unwanted materials lies a vast and wondrous world of fashion potential. In the liminal phase between a product’s rejection and its fate as landfill, designers are called on to create a positive alternative. The upcycling process encourages designers to consider how they might release the past social lives of products to uncover the design potential of new creations. Upcycling introduces the dimensions of time, des…
Setting the dining room
The typological and practical boundaries of what is, and what is not, “_ Room” remain fluid in the twenty-first century. As contemporary theatre has offered a renewed focus on spatial and material affordances, so it draws closer to rooms, inviting an explicit emphasis on the assemblages which position a staged encounter, be that in a private domestic dining room, its reassembly within a museum scenario, or a temporary fine art installation in dia…
Remote Control? The shaping of communities of tennis spectators through the BBC’s large TV screen coverage of Wimbledon
In 1997, the All England Lawn Tennis Club revealed the addition of a large TV screen facing the grassy embankment opposite Court One. The placement of this screen altered the nature of the live Wimbledon event, as well as spectators’ experience of it, and in the process constructed the incline as ‘Henman Hill’. Media ecology recognizes the dynamics of culture and social groups as intricately intertwined with communication and communication techno…
In My Rearview Mirror
Understanding how young teen girls use music to navigate the emotional dramas of first love presents an important insight into the part media play in teens' processes of identity formation. Through analysis of forum postings on the official Taylor Swift website, I explore how teen girls "talk" about Swift's music in an effort to understand how these girls use the lyrics of Swift songs in a prospective remembering of their future relationships. Wh…
Do You Understand What You're Accusing Me of?”
MTV's The Hills is a “reality” television program that follows the lives of four young female protagonists as they deal with concerns around work, friends, and relationships. The Hills presents a world of female friendships which is potentially continuous with the peer socialization of teen viewers and, as such, I argue offers a template to examine the importance of peer conversations in the construction of young female identities. In this articl…
For whose eyes only? The gatekeeping of sexual images in the field of teen sexuality
This article examines the ways in which gatekeepers shape the field of teen sexuality by controlling access to sexual images. I question who decides whether an image is ‘appropriate’ for young adults and how such judgements shape the wider cultural field. The ways in which gatekeepers have attempted to shield teens from certain sexual images offers some explanation as to failings in sex education to educate and empower teens with the tools to eng…
Digital dressing up
Blogs, which resemble online diaries, represent a popular space for teenagers to write about their experiences and publish their thoughts on the Web. This ability offers a particularly valuable resource for teenagers in their formation and enactment of social identities. In this article, I examine how teen girls model their identity through the mediated spaces of fashion blogs. Given the broad choices in putting together fashion outfits and acces…
Rousing the Reggia
A problem facing many custodians and curators of historic buildings is how to create a sense of history and awaken a connection with the past for contemporary visitors. With the help of secondary material such as video projections, audio guides and costumed interpreters, visitors are enabled to imagine what life might have been like before the building was ‘museumified’. This article discusses Peter Greenaway’s video installation Peopling the Pal…
Digital dressing up
Blogs, which resemble online diaries, represent a popular space for teenagers to write about their experiences and publish their thoughts on the Web. This ability offers a particularly valuable resource for teenagers in their formation and enactment of social identities. In this article, I examine how teen girls model their identity through the mediated spaces of fashion blogs. Given the broad choices in putting together fashion outfits and acces…
Rousing the Reggia
A problem facing many custodians and curators of historic buildings is how to create a sense of history and awaken a connection with the past for contemporary visitors. With the help of secondary material such as video projections, audio guides and costumed interpreters, visitors are enabled to imagine what life might have been like before the building was ‘museumified’. This article discusses Peter Greenaway’s video installation Peopling the Pal…
For whose eyes only? The gatekeeping of sexual images in the field of teen sexuality
This article examines the ways in which gatekeepers shape the field of teen sexuality by controlling access to sexual images. I question who decides whether an image is ‘appropriate’ for young adults and how such judgements shape the wider cultural field. The ways in which gatekeepers have attempted to shield teens from certain sexual images offers some explanation as to failings in sex education to educate and empower teens with the tools to eng…
Digital dressing up
Blogs, which resemble online diaries, represent a popular space for teenagers to write about their experiences and publish their thoughts on the Web. This ability offers a particularly valuable resource for teenagers in their formation and enactment of social identities. In this article, I examine how teen girls model their identity through the mediated spaces of fashion blogs. Given the broad choices in putting together fashion outfits and acces…
Rousing the Reggia
A problem facing many custodians and curators of historic buildings is how to create a sense of history and awaken a connection with the past for contemporary visitors. With the help of secondary material such as video projections, audio guides and costumed interpreters, visitors are enabled to imagine what life might have been like before the building was ‘museumified’. This article discusses Peter Greenaway’s video installation Peopling the Pal…
Do You Understand What You're Accusing Me of?”
MTV's The Hills is a “reality” television program that follows the lives of four young female protagonists as they deal with concerns around work, friends, and relationships. The Hills presents a world of female friendships which is potentially continuous with the peer socialization of teen viewers and, as such, I argue offers a template to examine the importance of peer conversations in the construction of young female identities. In this articl…
In My Rearview Mirror
Understanding how young teen girls use music to navigate the emotional dramas of first love presents an important insight into the part media play in teens' processes of identity formation. Through analysis of forum postings on the official Taylor Swift website, I explore how teen girls "talk" about Swift's music in an effort to understand how these girls use the lyrics of Swift songs in a prospective remembering of their future relationships. Wh…
Remote Control? The shaping of communities of tennis spectators through the BBC’s large TV screen coverage of Wimbledon
In 1997, the All England Lawn Tennis Club revealed the addition of a large TV screen facing the grassy embankment opposite Court One. The placement of this screen altered the nature of the live Wimbledon event, as well as spectators’ experience of it, and in the process constructed the incline as ‘Henman Hill’. Media ecology recognizes the dynamics of culture and social groups as intricately intertwined with communication and communication techno…
Fashioning fire hose
Among the scrapheap of society’s unwanted materials lies a vast and wondrous world of fashion potential. In the liminal phase between a product’s rejection and its fate as landfill, designers are called on to create a positive alternative. The upcycling process encourages designers to consider how they might release the past social lives of products to uncover the design potential of new creations. Upcycling introduces the dimensions of time, des…
Setting the dining room
The typological and practical boundaries of what is, and what is not, “_ Room” remain fluid in the twenty-first century. As contemporary theatre has offered a renewed focus on spatial and material affordances, so it draws closer to rooms, inviting an explicit emphasis on the assemblages which position a staged encounter, be that in a private domestic dining room, its reassembly within a museum scenario, or a temporary fine art installation in dia…
Foraging for fashion’s future
In reaction to the climate crisis, we have seen the emergence of environmental fashion trends that seek to limit energy use and cut emissions, with the aim of building sustainability. The provocation to design in concert with our biosphere is driving fashion designers to renegotiate our relationship with living systems in the quest for innovative ecological design models. This article explores the transformative coupling of fungi fabric and fashi…
Weaving Climate
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)