Content Cultures

Simon Popple is Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Director of Impact and Innovation in the Institute of Communications Studies at Leeds University, UK. He is founder and joint editor of the journal "Early Popular Visual Culture" and his books include "Digging the Seam: Popular Cultures of the Miners' Strike" (2012). Helen Thornham is a Research Fellow in Transformations of Media at Leeds University. She is the author of" Ethnographies of the Videogame" (2011) and co-editor, with Elke Weissmann, of "Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies" (I.B. Tauris, 2013).

• Introduction - Simon Popple & Helen ThornhamYoung People and the BBCNews, Children and Citizenship: User-Generated Content and the BBC’s Newsround Website - Máire Messenger Davies, Cynthia Carter, Stuart Allan, and Kaitlynn Mendes Fantasies of creative connectivity in BBC Blast - Helen Thornham & Angela McFarlaneInterview with John MillnerFans, fan culture and the BBCMobilising Specialist Music Fans Online - Tim WallMaking ‘quality’, class and gender: Audiences and producers of The Archers negotiate meaning online - Lyn ThomasAuthorship, Citizenship and the BBC‘A Public Voice’: Access, Digital Story and Interactive Narrative - Mike Wilson & Hamish FyfeThe New Golden Age?: Using UGC to develop the Public Digital Space - Simon PoppleInterview with Claire WardleLocating the BBCEnabling and constraining creativity and collaboration: Some reflections after Adventure Rock - David GauntlettVirtual Citizenship and Public Service Media -Petros IosofidisIndex