John Potter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3878271 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Potter |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Potter |
| ASSINATURA | POTTER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8762-944X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1936 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies
2025 has been a significant year for critical research on educational technologies. In our last collective editorial, the past and present editors of Learning, Media and Technology looked back over
Looking back and looking forward
Anniversaries of all kinds are good opportunities to look back and reflect, as well as to look forward to the future. Learning, Media and Technology is now 20 years old, but it also has a longer hi
Knowledge infrastructure crisis
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the contemporary ‘knowledge infrastructures’ underpinning knowledge production and reproduction in education. Contributing to the Special Issue on ‘knowledge crises’ in education, we conceive of recent and ongoing developments in the digitalisation and dataficat…
Theory-building in the social, material and postdigital worlds of play
This article is about using participatory research and multimodal discourse analysis to scaffold theory-building, with a focus on how children draw on their lifeworlds, folkloric imagination, and media experiences to generate meanings in, and through, their play. It draws on a tradition of research which employs a multimodal semiotic lens to analyse interaction and communication between social actors in combination with sociocultural theory to ge…
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Learning, Media and Technology turns 20 years old in 2025 (or 50 if you count its former lives as the Journal of Educational Television from 1975 to 1995, and as the Journal of Educational Media fr
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech
New forms of bias, injustice, discrimination and inequality have become harmful characteristics of contemporary digital landscapes.In 1996, Batya Friedman and Helen Nissenbaum developed a framework for identifying bias in computer systems.From their analysis of computer systems, they proposed three categories of bias: 'Preexisting bias has its roots in social institutions, practices and attitudes' (Friedman and Nissenbaum 1996, 332).This exists w…
Against contextlessness in Learning, Media and Technology
Why do so many educational technologies not work as imagined or intended? The articles in this issue of Learning, Media and Technology all focus, in various ways, on how digital technologies are en
Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19
The Play Observatory was a COVID-19 rapid response project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) exploring children’s play experiences during the pandemic through an online survey, case studies and a filmmaking workshop. With access to many of the usual spaces and places of play curtailed during the lockdowns of the pandemic, in this article, we focus on children’s resourceful and playful placemaking during the restrictions, as well as thei…
Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education
Micro studies in macro digital ecosystems
Reading internationally
Reading internationally: If citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing
Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology
As we write, England and Denmark have celebrated ‘freedom days’, yet parts of Australia are in their sixth lockdown, and families in Argentina still can’t bury their loved ones as they would like t
Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages
In March 2020, populations were forced into home quarantine to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Universities moved the majority of their operations to homeworking, with profound implications for students, academics, and professional services staff. This paper analyses interview and visual data collected as part of a study on the impact of ‘moving online’ on staff at a large UK university. Drawing on sociomaterial perspectives, it considers the…
Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education
If financial markets are taken as the main measure of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education since early 2020, then education technology ('edtech') has finally arrived with disruptive and transformative force in education systems around the world.With reports of over $16billion USD venture capital investment in edtech in 2020 alone, and spectacular valuation claims of prospective returns to come, financial investors and edtech companies…
Using a collaborative zine to co-produce knowledge about location-based virtual reality experiences
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on a designed research methodology to distil existing research findings from an esrc/ahrc funded japan/uk network on location-based virtual reality experiences for children in order to generate new knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The structured co-production methodology was undertaken in three stages. These were: (1) a collaborative workshop which produced a series of collage narratives, (2) co…
Is Suicide the Unforgivable Sin? Understanding Suicide, Stigma, and Salvation through Two Christian Perspectives
Is suicide the unforgivable sin? Most Western arguments against suicide stem from Christian arguments. Christianity has a long-standing position that suicide is morally wrong. However, on the issue of suicide and salvation, Christianity is divided. Debate, discussion, and interpretation through the centuries have led to two different positions. This result has divided the Christian community in multiple ways. These beliefs have likely impacted th…
Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices
The first special issue of Learning, Media and Technology of 2020, entitled ‘Education and technology into the 2020s: speculative futures’, presented a series of papers looking to the future of cri
Researching the lived experience of the digital
As this issue of Learning, Media and Technology went to press, a new book, Living Literacies (Pahl & Rowsell, 2020) arrived with an agenda and subtitle of ‘Literacy for Social Change’. It opens wit
Playground as meaning-making space
This article takes as its starting point a recognition of play as meaning-making, and the playground as a rich and dynamic ‘meaning-makerspace’ where children draw moment-to-moment, rapidly and readily on the multiple resources available to them to make signs of their interest evident. These resources are drawn from their own lifeworlds, folkloric and site-specific imagination, transmitted game forms from the past, and their pleasure and affectiv…
Dynamic, Playful and Productive Literacies
This paper reflects on recent projects in a variety of media forms, in both formal and informal educational settings, discussing ways of expanding our notions of literacy practices which reflect their place in the wider lived experience of digital culture. We have collected these reflections under three headings. The first of these, Dynamic Literacies, presents an overarching view of literacy as both ideological, following the ‘new literacy studi…
Media Education as a Strategy for Online Civic Participation in Portuguese Schools
Whilst various studies have examined participation on the Internet as a key element of a new emergent civic engagement, informally or formally through national and local governments’ online measures, less has been done to measure or suggest ways of overcoming social and technological constraints on online civic participation. Additionally, few studies have looked at the relationship between the actual implementation of such initiatives in classro…
Older women's reduced contact with food in the Changes Around Food Experience (Cafe) study
Many older women reduce the amount of cooking and food preparation they do in later life. While cooking may be seen as traditionally associated with women's family roles, little is known about the impact of such reduced engagement with food on their lives. This paper presents the findings from a one-year qualitative study (Changes Around Food Experience, CAFE) of the impact of reduced contact with preparing and cooking meals from scratch for 40 w…
Social Media and Self-curatorship
The widespread uses of social media have been celebrated as a unique opportunity to redesign innovative learning environments that position students at the center of a participatory, multiliteracy and peer learning experience. This article problemitizes the connection between the social uses of new media and relevant educational practices and proposes more rigorous theoretical frames that can be used to guide future research into the role of soci…
Social Media and Self-curatorship
El uso de los medios sociales se ha extendido notablemente y se considera ya como una oportunidad única para el diseño de entornos innovadores de aprendizaje, donde los estudiantes se conviertan en protagonistas de experiencias de multialfabetización participativas y entre iguales. El trabajo cuestiona la conexión entre los usos sociales de los nuevos medios y las prácticas educativas relevantes, y propone marcos teóricos más rigurosos que puedan…
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Playground as meaning-making space
This article takes as its starting point a recognition of play as meaning-making, and the playground as a rich and dynamic ‘meaning-makerspace’ where children draw moment-to-moment, rapidly and readily on the multiple resources available to them to make signs of their interest evident. These resources are drawn from their own lifeworlds, folkloric and site-specific imagination, transmitted game forms from the past, and their pleasure and affectiv…
Media Education as a Strategy for Online Civic Participation in Portuguese Schools
Whilst various studies have examined participation on the Internet as a key element of a new emergent civic engagement, informally or formally through national and local governments’ online measures, less has been done to measure or suggest ways of overcoming social and technological constraints on online civic participation. Additionally, few studies have looked at the relationship between the actual implementation of such initiatives in classro…
Older women's reduced contact with food in the Changes Around Food Experience (Cafe) study
Many older women reduce the amount of cooking and food preparation they do in later life. While cooking may be seen as traditionally associated with women's family roles, little is known about the impact of such reduced engagement with food on their lives. This paper presents the findings from a one-year qualitative study (Changes Around Food Experience, CAFE) of the impact of reduced contact with preparing and cooking meals from scratch for 40 w…
Using a collaborative zine to co-produce knowledge about location-based virtual reality experiences
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on a designed research methodology to distil existing research findings from an esrc/ahrc funded japan/uk network on location-based virtual reality experiences for children in order to generate new knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The structured co-production methodology was undertaken in three stages. These were: (1) a collaborative workshop which produced a series of collage narratives, (2) co…
The Development and Significance of the Salic Law of the French
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19
The Play Observatory was a COVID-19 rapid response project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) exploring children’s play experiences during the pandemic through an online survey, case studies and a filmmaking workshop. With access to many of the usual spaces and places of play curtailed during the lockdowns of the pandemic, in this article, we focus on children’s resourceful and playful placemaking during the restrictions, as well as thei…
The singer, not the song
In his comprehensive celebration of women singers in the twentieth century, Wilfrid Mellers proposed a three-stage socio-musical evolution from the jazz, blues and gospel songs sung by black women, through the black-inspired white singers who followed them, to a new synthesis of singing poet-composers (Mellers 1986). Within this third category, very much the main point of the book, Mellers deals in considerable detail with a range of singer/song …
Deux féodaux
The Development and Significance of the Salic Law of the French
Machiavelli's `Prince' and Its Forerunners; `The Prince' as a Typical Book `de Regimine Principum' . Allan H. Gilbert
Perimeters of Social Repair
Terrorism
The singer, not the song
In his comprehensive celebration of women singers in the twentieth century, Wilfrid Mellers proposed a three-stage socio-musical evolution from the jazz, blues and gospel songs sung by black women, through the black-inspired white singers who followed them, to a new synthesis of singing poet-composers (Mellers 1986). Within this third category, very much the main point of the book, Mellers deals in considerable detail with a range of singer/song …
The Cambridge Companion to Singing
The Cambridge companion to singing
Singing
Vocal Authority. Singing Style and Ideology
Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together? These are the kinds of questions which John Potter, a singer with the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, and himself the master of many styles, poses in this fascinating book, which is effectively a history of singing style. He finds the reasons to be primaril…
Performing Live. Richard Shusterman
Journal Article Performing Live. Richard Shusterman Get access John Potter John Potter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 83, Issue 1, February 2002, Pages 158–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/83.1.158 Published: 01 February 2002
Suppose it Were Your Daughter
(2002). 'Suppose it Were Your Daughter': Gender, Class and Work as Perceived by Women Factory Inspectors in Progressive Era Massachusetts. Labor History: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 533-546
Beggar at the Door
With the exception of some opera singers, portamento is avoided as far as possible by today’s performers. It is an aspect of singing that even today’s early music specialists have chosen not to recover from the past despite overwhelming evidence for its use. This paper examines the historical literature on portamento, first in the pregramophone era then in the context of recordings in the twentieth century (when the literature can be matched with…
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Singing in Style
Journal Article Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices. By Martha Elliott. Get access Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices. By Martha Elliott. pp. xii + 356. ( Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, £22.50. ISBN 0-300-10932-6.) John Potter John Potter University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 89, Issue 3, August 2008, Page…
Social Media and Self-curatorship
The widespread uses of social media have been celebrated as a unique opportunity to redesign innovative learning environments that position students at the center of a participatory, multiliteracy and peer learning experience. This article problemitizes the connection between the social uses of new media and relevant educational practices and proposes more rigorous theoretical frames that can be used to guide future research into the role of soci…
Social Media and Self-curatorship
El uso de los medios sociales se ha extendido notablemente y se considera ya como una oportunidad única para el diseño de entornos innovadores de aprendizaje, donde los estudiantes se conviertan en protagonistas de experiencias de multialfabetización participativas y entre iguales. El trabajo cuestiona la conexión entre los usos sociales de los nuevos medios y las prácticas educativas relevantes, y propone marcos teóricos más rigurosos que puedan…
Older women's reduced contact with food in the Changes Around Food Experience (Cafe) study
Many older women reduce the amount of cooking and food preparation they do in later life. While cooking may be seen as traditionally associated with women's family roles, little is known about the impact of such reduced engagement with food on their lives. This paper presents the findings from a one-year qualitative study (Changes Around Food Experience, CAFE) of the impact of reduced contact with preparing and cooking meals from scratch for 40 w…
Media Education as a Strategy for Online Civic Participation in Portuguese Schools
Whilst various studies have examined participation on the Internet as a key element of a new emergent civic engagement, informally or formally through national and local governments’ online measures, less has been done to measure or suggest ways of overcoming social and technological constraints on online civic participation. Additionally, few studies have looked at the relationship between the actual implementation of such initiatives in classro…
Dynamic, Playful and Productive Literacies
This paper reflects on recent projects in a variety of media forms, in both formal and informal educational settings, discussing ways of expanding our notions of literacy practices which reflect their place in the wider lived experience of digital culture. We have collected these reflections under three headings. The first of these, Dynamic Literacies, presents an overarching view of literacy as both ideological, following the ‘new literacy studi…
Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices
The first special issue of Learning, Media and Technology of 2020, entitled ‘Education and technology into the 2020s: speculative futures’, presented a series of papers looking to the future of cri
Researching the lived experience of the digital
As this issue of Learning, Media and Technology went to press, a new book, Living Literacies (Pahl & Rowsell, 2020) arrived with an agenda and subtitle of ‘Literacy for Social Change’. It opens wit
Playground as meaning-making space
This article takes as its starting point a recognition of play as meaning-making, and the playground as a rich and dynamic ‘meaning-makerspace’ where children draw moment-to-moment, rapidly and readily on the multiple resources available to them to make signs of their interest evident. These resources are drawn from their own lifeworlds, folkloric and site-specific imagination, transmitted game forms from the past, and their pleasure and affectiv…
Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology
As we write, England and Denmark have celebrated ‘freedom days’, yet parts of Australia are in their sixth lockdown, and families in Argentina still can’t bury their loved ones as they would like t
Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages
In March 2020, populations were forced into home quarantine to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Universities moved the majority of their operations to homeworking, with profound implications for students, academics, and professional services staff. This paper analyses interview and visual data collected as part of a study on the impact of ‘moving online’ on staff at a large UK university. Drawing on sociomaterial perspectives, it considers the…
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