David Gauntlett
Biographic Data
| ID | 642656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gauntlett |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gauntlett |
| SIGNATURE | GAUNTLETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9796-4196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reframing, embodying and in-betweening: A conversation about experiences of doing practice-based research and research-creation
This article presents a conversation between one professor and two students in the Ph.D. programme at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, the first in Canada to offer a dedicated practice-based Ph.D. opportunity to candidates from all creative disciplines. The discussion covers our own experiences of practice-based research and research-creation and describes how this can be an extraordinarily powerful way to explore issues of i…
The Elements of Making: A Social Practice Perspective for Everyday Creators
In contrast to behavioural approaches that attempt to explain creativity, social practice theories commonly emphasize aspects of the material world that shape and reproduce how people engage with them. How might social practice theory clarify how making affects millions of hobbyist creators – and what makes making matter to them? This article examines the theoretical work tying creativity to social practice. It then reports on a project in which …
Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity
While makerspaces are rightly recognized as places for getting people of all ages together to experiment with materials, technologies, processes, and narratives, they are inevitably limited by physical resources of time, space, and money. The appealingly inclusive concept of a “makerspace mindset”—that is, a worldview that admits the possibility of gathering and collaborating a creative fellowship without borders—can facilitate the goal of a glob…
Making Media Studies
This podcast is a recording of a research seminar that took place on December 3, 2015, at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI).In this contribution, David Gauntlett discusses his new book, Making Media Studies, and other new work. In Making Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2015), Gauntlett proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an…
Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies
In <IMaking Media Studies</I, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity - th…
Remote living: Exploring online (and offline) experiences of young people living in rural areas
This article investigates the online and offline experiences of young people living in rural communities. It draws upon data from the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 created ‘identity boxes’ to explore the place of media in their lives. The article demonstrates that many young people in rural areas were disengaged with new media and highlights w…
Young People’s Uses and Understandings of Online Social Networks in Their Everyday Lives
This article examines young people’s uses and understandings of social networking sites and instant messaging tools within the context of their everyday lives. It draws upon data from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded qualitative study, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 from six locations across England created ‘identity boxes’ which were meant to reflect …
Creative and Visual Methods in Audience Research
Media, Gender and Identity
Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence…
Creative Explorations: New Approaches To Identities And Audiences
How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships? Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience. Seeking an alternative to traditional interviews and focus gro…
Creative and visual methods for exploring identities
There seems to be a growing interest in Europe in the use of visual methodologies within social research – studies in which participants are asked to make creative artefacts within the research process. Although readers of Visual Studies will already be familiar with techniques such as photo‐elicitation, the use of video, drawing, collage, Lego and other methods remains somewhat new. At conferences we find that people are interested to hear about…
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence…
Digital Sexualities: A Guide to Internet Resources
Young People’s Uses and Understandings of Online Social Networks in Their Everyday Lives
This article examines young people’s uses and understandings of social networking sites and instant messaging tools within the context of their everyday lives. It draws upon data from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded qualitative study, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 from six locations across England created ‘identity boxes’ which were meant to reflect …
Remote living: Exploring online (and offline) experiences of young people living in rural areas
This article investigates the online and offline experiences of young people living in rural communities. It draws upon data from the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 created ‘identity boxes’ to explore the place of media in their lives. The article demonstrates that many young people in rural areas were disengaged with new media and highlights w…
Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity
While makerspaces are rightly recognized as places for getting people of all ages together to experiment with materials, technologies, processes, and narratives, they are inevitably limited by physical resources of time, space, and money. The appealingly inclusive concept of a “makerspace mindset”—that is, a worldview that admits the possibility of gathering and collaborating a creative fellowship without borders—can facilitate the goal of a glob…
Digital Sexualities: A Guide to Internet Resources
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence…
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
Creative and visual methods for exploring identities
There seems to be a growing interest in Europe in the use of visual methodologies within social research – studies in which participants are asked to make creative artefacts within the research process. Although readers of Visual Studies will already be familiar with techniques such as photo‐elicitation, the use of video, drawing, collage, Lego and other methods remains somewhat new. At conferences we find that people are interested to hear about…
Creative Explorations: New Approaches To Identities And Audiences
How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships? Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience. Seeking an alternative to traditional interviews and focus gro…
Media, Gender and Identity
Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence…
Creative and Visual Methods in Audience Research
Remote living: Exploring online (and offline) experiences of young people living in rural areas
This article investigates the online and offline experiences of young people living in rural communities. It draws upon data from the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 created ‘identity boxes’ to explore the place of media in their lives. The article demonstrates that many young people in rural areas were disengaged with new media and highlights w…
Young People’s Uses and Understandings of Online Social Networks in Their Everyday Lives
This article examines young people’s uses and understandings of social networking sites and instant messaging tools within the context of their everyday lives. It draws upon data from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded qualitative study, ‘Young people’s creative understanding of their mediaworlds’ (2008–10), in which young people aged 14–15 from six locations across England created ‘identity boxes’ which were meant to reflect …
Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies
In <IMaking Media Studies</I, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity - th…
Making Media Studies
This podcast is a recording of a research seminar that took place on December 3, 2015, at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI).In this contribution, David Gauntlett discusses his new book, Making Media Studies, and other new work. In Making Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2015), Gauntlett proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an…
Making and learning together: Where the makerspace mindset meets platforms for creativity
While makerspaces are rightly recognized as places for getting people of all ages together to experiment with materials, technologies, processes, and narratives, they are inevitably limited by physical resources of time, space, and money. The appealingly inclusive concept of a “makerspace mindset”—that is, a worldview that admits the possibility of gathering and collaborating a creative fellowship without borders—can facilitate the goal of a glob…
The Elements of Making: A Social Practice Perspective for Everyday Creators
In contrast to behavioural approaches that attempt to explain creativity, social practice theories commonly emphasize aspects of the material world that shape and reproduce how people engage with them. How might social practice theory clarify how making affects millions of hobbyist creators – and what makes making matter to them? This article examines the theoretical work tying creativity to social practice. It then reports on a project in which …
Reframing, embodying and in-betweening: A conversation about experiences of doing practice-based research and research-creation
This article presents a conversation between one professor and two students in the Ph.D. programme at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, the first in Canada to offer a dedicated practice-based Ph.D. opportunity to candidates from all creative disciplines. The discussion covers our own experiences of practice-based research and research-creation and describes how this can be an extraordinarily powerful way to explore issues of i…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works)