Mike Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 89780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding the beat: A partnership to address the relationship between a music program and health among youth who have experienced trauma
This program evaluation provides data to help build the evidence for alternative mental health treatments that specifically reach those impacted by a lack of access and availability of treatments due to social determinants of health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Visualization in the Occult Sciences: A Study of Meditation as Practical Action
This paper explores a meditation practice that involves forms of visualization. It is a Theravādan practice that was researched ethnographically. The analytic focus of this report concerns the practical work of meditation. Meditative visualization is placed in the context of a broader literature on visualization practices. The paper commences with a comparative consideration of ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ approaches to mind. Meditation practice is in…
A Case Study in the Relationship of Mind to Body: Transforming the Embodied Mind
Documenting Acts of Cruelty: The Practice of Violent Criminals Making Visual Records of Their Crimes
The substantive focus of this article is a small collection of image-based case studies of significant criminal acts of interpersonal cruelty that are now in the public domain. In all instances those engaged in criminal acts of violence record and document aspects of their own behavior. The case studies range from military personnel and terrorists to examples from popular culture. Self-created images have the potential to serve as evidence of cri…
Images, language and numbers in company reports: A Study of Documents That Are Occasioned by a Legal Requirement for Financial Disclosure
The substantive area of this article is Annual Company Reports. These comprise documents that are in the public domain. For our purposes, they are an example of what is termed in the methodological literature 'unobtrusive methods'. Company Reports are assembled from numerical, textual and visual content. This article examines certain developments within Annual Company Reports; namely, the increasing extension beyond the legal requirement for nume…
Working with images in daily life and police practice: An Assessment of the Documentary Tradition
There is a growing body of literature within the humanities and social sciences that is directly critical of the documentary tradition's treatment and use of still and moving images as realistic data. The documentary tradition claims that it is possible to visually document social scenes with cameras. Postmodernism, poststructuralism, critical theory and related traditions argue that still and moving images amount to representations, their critiq…
Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film
The Visual Availability and Local Organisation of Public Surveillance Systems: The Promotion of Social Order in Public Spaces
The empirical focus of the research reported in this paper is the recent rapid growth in public surveillance systems. It is now commonplace in Britain for certain 'public' spaces to have video surveillance and for some stretches of public highways to have 'Gatso' speed cameras located on them. The visual availability of items of material culture such as surveillance systems is introduced as an analytical organising principal for delineating the s…
Working with images in daily life and police practice: An Assessment of the Documentary Tradition
There is a growing body of literature within the humanities and social sciences that is directly critical of the documentary tradition's treatment and use of still and moving images as realistic data. The documentary tradition claims that it is possible to visually document social scenes with cameras. Postmodernism, poststructuralism, critical theory and related traditions argue that still and moving images amount to representations, their critiq…
The Visual Availability and Local Organisation of Public Surveillance Systems: The Promotion of Social Order in Public Spaces
The empirical focus of the research reported in this paper is the recent rapid growth in public surveillance systems. It is now commonplace in Britain for certain 'public' spaces to have video surveillance and for some stretches of public highways to have 'Gatso' speed cameras located on them. The visual availability of items of material culture such as surveillance systems is introduced as an analytical organising principal for delineating the s…
A Case Study in the Relationship of Mind to Body: Transforming the Embodied Mind
The Visual Availability and Local Organisation of Public Surveillance Systems: The Promotion of Social Order in Public Spaces
The empirical focus of the research reported in this paper is the recent rapid growth in public surveillance systems. It is now commonplace in Britain for certain 'public' spaces to have video surveillance and for some stretches of public highways to have 'Gatso' speed cameras located on them. The visual availability of items of material culture such as surveillance systems is introduced as an analytical organising principal for delineating the s…
Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film
Working with images in daily life and police practice: An Assessment of the Documentary Tradition
There is a growing body of literature within the humanities and social sciences that is directly critical of the documentary tradition's treatment and use of still and moving images as realistic data. The documentary tradition claims that it is possible to visually document social scenes with cameras. Postmodernism, poststructuralism, critical theory and related traditions argue that still and moving images amount to representations, their critiq…
Images, language and numbers in company reports: A Study of Documents That Are Occasioned by a Legal Requirement for Financial Disclosure
The substantive area of this article is Annual Company Reports. These comprise documents that are in the public domain. For our purposes, they are an example of what is termed in the methodological literature 'unobtrusive methods'. Company Reports are assembled from numerical, textual and visual content. This article examines certain developments within Annual Company Reports; namely, the increasing extension beyond the legal requirement for nume…
Documenting Acts of Cruelty: The Practice of Violent Criminals Making Visual Records of Their Crimes
The substantive focus of this article is a small collection of image-based case studies of significant criminal acts of interpersonal cruelty that are now in the public domain. In all instances those engaged in criminal acts of violence record and document aspects of their own behavior. The case studies range from military personnel and terrorists to examples from popular culture. Self-created images have the potential to serve as evidence of cri…
A Case Study in the Relationship of Mind to Body: Transforming the Embodied Mind
Visualization in the Occult Sciences: A Study of Meditation as Practical Action
This paper explores a meditation practice that involves forms of visualization. It is a Theravādan practice that was researched ethnographically. The analytic focus of this report concerns the practical work of meditation. Meditative visualization is placed in the context of a broader literature on visualization practices. The paper commences with a comparative consideration of ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ approaches to mind. Meditation practice is in…
Finding the beat: A partnership to address the relationship between a music program and health among youth who have experienced trauma
This program evaluation provides data to help build the evidence for alternative mental health treatments that specifically reach those impacted by a lack of access and availability of treatments due to social determinants of health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
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