Katherine Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2866-4189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Leaving Earth behind: The semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of Earth published online by the private space industry, or ‘NewSpace’, produces understandings of a failing planet to justify the commercialisation of space and terrestrial extractivism. Drawing on the iconic blue-marble genre of 20th-century NASA Earth photography and more recent digital globe imagery linked to modelling and spectacularising climate crisis, NewSpace CGI contributes to an emergent ‘sociotechnical…
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a significant predictor of various physical and psychological problems in adulthood. This secondary analysis of a randomized smoking cessation trial examined the association between ACEs and the severity of nicotine withdrawal during smoking cessation. ACEs were assessed at baseline using a 10-item questionnaire, while nicotine withdrawal symptoms were measured weekly with the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal…
Observing weight stigma in the editing of UK factual welfare programming
Media representations of fat and weight play a central role in the circulation of weight stigma. However, the production practices involved have received little attention. This paper focuses on the editing techniques deployed in a UK reality television documentary series, On Benefits. Our analysis of cutaway shots suggests a quantitative and qualitative difference between an episode featuring “obese” people claiming welfare, compared to the rest …
Lockdown leisure
This editorial sets the scene for this special issue by unpacking the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely linked with the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which spread globally in early 2020 and throughout 2021 and 2022. It provides a snapshot of the parameters of lockdown leisure, outlines the separate articles in this special issue, and considers the medium-to-long term implications of the pandemic for leisure studies. By incor…
The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television
Editing techniques used in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) in the UK undermine narratives of hardship and structural inequality in representations of the living places of welfare claimants. This research identifies the affects of a televisual syntax - or 'visual grammar' - of spatial stigma in FWT. Using original data generated in a study of Channel 5's documentary series On Benefits (2015-2019), we conduct a visual grammar analysis to argue tha…
‘It’s like Going to the Regular Class but without Being there’: A Qualitative Analysis of Older people’s Experiences of Exercise in the Home during Covid-19 Lockdown in England
It is expected that the Covid-19 lockdown will have increased physical inactivity with negative impacts for older people, who are at greater risk of health complications from the virus. This paper draws on customer evaluation questionnaire of a Pilates class aimed at people aged over 50 years old, which transitioned from a studio setting to online classes via Zoom at the start of the lockdown in England. The paper aims to (i) evaluate the shift o…
Knit 'n' natter: A Feminist Methodological Assessment of Using Creative 'Women's Work' in Focus Groups
This article outlines the methodological innovations generated in a study of knitting and femininity in Britain. The study utilised 'knit 'n' natter' focus groups during which female participants were encouraged to knit and talk. The research design encompassed a traditionally undervalued form of domestic 'women's work' to recognise the creative skills of female practitioners. 'Knit 'n' natter' is a fruitful feminist research method in relation t…
From Streetscapes to Sofas: Representations of Place and Space in Britain's Benefit Blackspots
Representations of place and space in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) are under-researched, contributing to neglect of spatial stigma in austerity culture. In this article, we combine agnotology - the study of manufactured ignorance - with visual grammar methods to examine Channel 5's Britain's Benefit Blackspots (2017) to address why FWT is spatially significant. We argue that televisual representations of the abject 'welfare claimant' in Brita…
Automated and/or authentic intimacy: What can we learn about contemporary intimacy from the case of Ashley Madison’s bots
In July 2015 the well-known affairs Web site, Ashley Madison, was hacked and both customer details and internal company correspondence were stolen, and later dumped online for public access. In the analysis of the data, it became clear that the site had extensively used bots to attract customers. This paper brings together these bots with a short story by Candas Jane Dorsey about the discomfiting potential of human-machine intimacies. I use the t…
Grandma never knit like this”: Reclaiming older women’s knitting practices from discourses of new craft in Britain
New discourses of craft construct knitting as young, hip, socially networked and politically conscious and the experiences of knitters who do not fit into this formulation are marginalised. 7.3 million people in Britain knit; the vast majority are women in their mid-thirties and older. Yet popular media accounts of ‘new knitting’ mobilise the derogatory figure of the ‘grandma’ to repudiate knitters who are seen not to properly instantiate contemp…
Researching Intimacies and New Media: Methodological Opportunities and Challenges
Researching intimacies and new media encompasses a wide variety of intersecting practices and relationships. This special issue presents contributions from researchers who are investigating practices of intimacy mediated either wholly or in part through new media in which a variety of different methodological opportunities and challenges are highlighted and discussed. Existing research has addressed different combinations of new media, intimacy, …
A virtual promise of happiness: Kinship on the websites of Danish fertility clinics and sperm banks
Each month thousands of people travel across national borders to access assisted reproductive treatments across Europe. The possibility to purchase fertility treatments in a similar way to other products and services has led not only to a clearly defined market place and customer, but has also contributed to scholarly work on critical studies of kinship. To date, however, there has been little research enquiring into how new media technologies re…
Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
Social media, characterized by user-generated content, interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained much research attention in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This anthology explores how social media construct new types of intimacies, and how prac…
Becoming-a-firefighter - on the intra-active relationship between firefighters and their tools
This article focuses on the relationship between the members of a local fire brigade in Sweden and their tools, as well as the organisational dynamics that forge this relation. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad [2007. Meeting the universe halfway. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press], and particularly her notion of intra-action, the intention is to unpick the strong material and symbolic rela…
No Thought of Gender’: Bodily Norms in S wedish Rescue Services Incident Reporting
Information and communication technologies ( ICT s) play an increasingly important role in the preventative and planning work carried out by rescue services, but to date there has been little research investigating how these technologies may be involved in the gendering of the organization. In this study, I seek to complement existing analyses of the gendered rescue service by focusing on a web portal used to collect, process and publish data abo…
Exploring Grey Zones and Blind Spots in the Binaries and Boundaries of E.L. James' Fifty Shades Trilogy
In this article, we problematise the implications of some of these familiar binaries asthey are used in the Fifty Shades trilogy. Through analysis of some of the trilogy’s narrative tropes, we inve
Imaginary Americas
Detecting bodily and discursive noise in the naming of biotech products
This article contributes to existing feminist technoscience analyses by proposing a new tool for examining how norms governing viable and unviable bodies are discursively constructed in an increasingly technologized world. This tool is the result of synthesizing two existing concepts: white noise from the field of media theory/information studies, and the abject from psychosemiotics/gender studies. Synthesizing these two concepts produces an enri…
Job Terminations Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness Participating in Supported Employment
Job Terminations Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness Participating in Supported Employment
Lockdown leisure
This editorial sets the scene for this special issue by unpacking the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely linked with the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which spread globally in early 2020 and throughout 2021 and 2022. It provides a snapshot of the parameters of lockdown leisure, outlines the separate articles in this special issue, and considers the medium-to-long term implications of the pandemic for leisure studies. By incor…
Knit 'n' natter: A Feminist Methodological Assessment of Using Creative 'Women's Work' in Focus Groups
This article outlines the methodological innovations generated in a study of knitting and femininity in Britain. The study utilised 'knit 'n' natter' focus groups during which female participants were encouraged to knit and talk. The research design encompassed a traditionally undervalued form of domestic 'women's work' to recognise the creative skills of female practitioners. 'Knit 'n' natter' is a fruitful feminist research method in relation t…
The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television
Editing techniques used in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) in the UK undermine narratives of hardship and structural inequality in representations of the living places of welfare claimants. This research identifies the affects of a televisual syntax - or 'visual grammar' - of spatial stigma in FWT. Using original data generated in a study of Channel 5's documentary series On Benefits (2015-2019), we conduct a visual grammar analysis to argue tha…
From Streetscapes to Sofas: Representations of Place and Space in Britain's Benefit Blackspots
Representations of place and space in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) are under-researched, contributing to neglect of spatial stigma in austerity culture. In this article, we combine agnotology - the study of manufactured ignorance - with visual grammar methods to examine Channel 5's Britain's Benefit Blackspots (2017) to address why FWT is spatially significant. We argue that televisual representations of the abject 'welfare claimant' in Brita…
Grandma never knit like this”: Reclaiming older women’s knitting practices from discourses of new craft in Britain
New discourses of craft construct knitting as young, hip, socially networked and politically conscious and the experiences of knitters who do not fit into this formulation are marginalised. 7.3 million people in Britain knit; the vast majority are women in their mid-thirties and older. Yet popular media accounts of ‘new knitting’ mobilise the derogatory figure of the ‘grandma’ to repudiate knitters who are seen not to properly instantiate contemp…
No Thought of Gender’: Bodily Norms in S wedish Rescue Services Incident Reporting
Information and communication technologies ( ICT s) play an increasingly important role in the preventative and planning work carried out by rescue services, but to date there has been little research investigating how these technologies may be involved in the gendering of the organization. In this study, I seek to complement existing analyses of the gendered rescue service by focusing on a web portal used to collect, process and publish data abo…
Exploring Grey Zones and Blind Spots in the Binaries and Boundaries of E.L. James' Fifty Shades Trilogy
In this article, we problematise the implications of some of these familiar binaries asthey are used in the Fifty Shades trilogy. Through analysis of some of the trilogy’s narrative tropes, we inve
Researching Intimacies and New Media: Methodological Opportunities and Challenges
Researching intimacies and new media encompasses a wide variety of intersecting practices and relationships. This special issue presents contributions from researchers who are investigating practices of intimacy mediated either wholly or in part through new media in which a variety of different methodological opportunities and challenges are highlighted and discussed. Existing research has addressed different combinations of new media, intimacy, …
A virtual promise of happiness: Kinship on the websites of Danish fertility clinics and sperm banks
Each month thousands of people travel across national borders to access assisted reproductive treatments across Europe. The possibility to purchase fertility treatments in a similar way to other products and services has led not only to a clearly defined market place and customer, but has also contributed to scholarly work on critical studies of kinship. To date, however, there has been little research enquiring into how new media technologies re…
Becoming-a-firefighter - on the intra-active relationship between firefighters and their tools
This article focuses on the relationship between the members of a local fire brigade in Sweden and their tools, as well as the organisational dynamics that forge this relation. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad [2007. Meeting the universe halfway. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press], and particularly her notion of intra-action, the intention is to unpick the strong material and symbolic rela…
Job Terminations Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness Participating in Supported Employment
Detecting bodily and discursive noise in the naming of biotech products
This article contributes to existing feminist technoscience analyses by proposing a new tool for examining how norms governing viable and unviable bodies are discursively constructed in an increasingly technologized world. This tool is the result of synthesizing two existing concepts: white noise from the field of media theory/information studies, and the abject from psychosemiotics/gender studies. Synthesizing these two concepts produces an enri…
Imaginary Americas
Exploring Grey Zones and Blind Spots in the Binaries and Boundaries of E.L. James' Fifty Shades Trilogy
In this article, we problematise the implications of some of these familiar binaries asthey are used in the Fifty Shades trilogy. Through analysis of some of the trilogy’s narrative tropes, we inve
No Thought of Gender’: Bodily Norms in S wedish Rescue Services Incident Reporting
Information and communication technologies ( ICT s) play an increasingly important role in the preventative and planning work carried out by rescue services, but to date there has been little research investigating how these technologies may be involved in the gendering of the organization. In this study, I seek to complement existing analyses of the gendered rescue service by focusing on a web portal used to collect, process and publish data abo…
Becoming-a-firefighter - on the intra-active relationship between firefighters and their tools
This article focuses on the relationship between the members of a local fire brigade in Sweden and their tools, as well as the organisational dynamics that forge this relation. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad [2007. Meeting the universe halfway. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press], and particularly her notion of intra-action, the intention is to unpick the strong material and symbolic rela…
Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
Social media, characterized by user-generated content, interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained much research attention in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This anthology explores how social media construct new types of intimacies, and how prac…
A virtual promise of happiness: Kinship on the websites of Danish fertility clinics and sperm banks
Each month thousands of people travel across national borders to access assisted reproductive treatments across Europe. The possibility to purchase fertility treatments in a similar way to other products and services has led not only to a clearly defined market place and customer, but has also contributed to scholarly work on critical studies of kinship. To date, however, there has been little research enquiring into how new media technologies re…
Automated and/or authentic intimacy: What can we learn about contemporary intimacy from the case of Ashley Madison’s bots
In July 2015 the well-known affairs Web site, Ashley Madison, was hacked and both customer details and internal company correspondence were stolen, and later dumped online for public access. In the analysis of the data, it became clear that the site had extensively used bots to attract customers. This paper brings together these bots with a short story by Candas Jane Dorsey about the discomfiting potential of human-machine intimacies. I use the t…
Grandma never knit like this”: Reclaiming older women’s knitting practices from discourses of new craft in Britain
New discourses of craft construct knitting as young, hip, socially networked and politically conscious and the experiences of knitters who do not fit into this formulation are marginalised. 7.3 million people in Britain knit; the vast majority are women in their mid-thirties and older. Yet popular media accounts of ‘new knitting’ mobilise the derogatory figure of the ‘grandma’ to repudiate knitters who are seen not to properly instantiate contemp…
Researching Intimacies and New Media: Methodological Opportunities and Challenges
Researching intimacies and new media encompasses a wide variety of intersecting practices and relationships. This special issue presents contributions from researchers who are investigating practices of intimacy mediated either wholly or in part through new media in which a variety of different methodological opportunities and challenges are highlighted and discussed. Existing research has addressed different combinations of new media, intimacy, …
‘It’s like Going to the Regular Class but without Being there’: A Qualitative Analysis of Older people’s Experiences of Exercise in the Home during Covid-19 Lockdown in England
It is expected that the Covid-19 lockdown will have increased physical inactivity with negative impacts for older people, who are at greater risk of health complications from the virus. This paper draws on customer evaluation questionnaire of a Pilates class aimed at people aged over 50 years old, which transitioned from a studio setting to online classes via Zoom at the start of the lockdown in England. The paper aims to (i) evaluate the shift o…
Knit 'n' natter: A Feminist Methodological Assessment of Using Creative 'Women's Work' in Focus Groups
This article outlines the methodological innovations generated in a study of knitting and femininity in Britain. The study utilised 'knit 'n' natter' focus groups during which female participants were encouraged to knit and talk. The research design encompassed a traditionally undervalued form of domestic 'women's work' to recognise the creative skills of female practitioners. 'Knit 'n' natter' is a fruitful feminist research method in relation t…
From Streetscapes to Sofas: Representations of Place and Space in Britain's Benefit Blackspots
Representations of place and space in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) are under-researched, contributing to neglect of spatial stigma in austerity culture. In this article, we combine agnotology - the study of manufactured ignorance - with visual grammar methods to examine Channel 5's Britain's Benefit Blackspots (2017) to address why FWT is spatially significant. We argue that televisual representations of the abject 'welfare claimant' in Brita…
Observing weight stigma in the editing of UK factual welfare programming
Media representations of fat and weight play a central role in the circulation of weight stigma. However, the production practices involved have received little attention. This paper focuses on the editing techniques deployed in a UK reality television documentary series, On Benefits. Our analysis of cutaway shots suggests a quantitative and qualitative difference between an episode featuring “obese” people claiming welfare, compared to the rest …
Lockdown leisure
This editorial sets the scene for this special issue by unpacking the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely linked with the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which spread globally in early 2020 and throughout 2021 and 2022. It provides a snapshot of the parameters of lockdown leisure, outlines the separate articles in this special issue, and considers the medium-to-long term implications of the pandemic for leisure studies. By incor…
The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television
Editing techniques used in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) in the UK undermine narratives of hardship and structural inequality in representations of the living places of welfare claimants. This research identifies the affects of a televisual syntax - or 'visual grammar' - of spatial stigma in FWT. Using original data generated in a study of Channel 5's documentary series On Benefits (2015-2019), we conduct a visual grammar analysis to argue tha…
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a significant predictor of various physical and psychological problems in adulthood. This secondary analysis of a randomized smoking cessation trial examined the association between ACEs and the severity of nicotine withdrawal during smoking cessation. ACEs were assessed at baseline using a 10-item questionnaire, while nicotine withdrawal symptoms were measured weekly with the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal…
Leaving Earth behind: The semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of Earth published online by the private space industry, or ‘NewSpace’, produces understandings of a failing planet to justify the commercialisation of space and terrestrial extractivism. Drawing on the iconic blue-marble genre of 20th-century NASA Earth photography and more recent digital globe imagery linked to modelling and spectacularising climate crisis, NewSpace CGI contributes to an emergent ‘sociotechnical…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)