John DOvey, Professor of Screen Media
Director of REACT

Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media on Dept of Creative Industries. He spent the first 15 years of his working life in video production, as a researcher, editor and  producer in documentary and experimental video. He has worked at UWE since 1996 apart from a brief transfer to the other side of town when he defected to University of Bristol for three years from 2004.​

Jon’s recent publications include Towards a Language of Mobile Media in The Mobile Audience Media Art & Mobile Technologies ed Martin Rieser Rodopi 2011 and 'This great mapping of ourselves’ – New Documentary Forms Online’ in The Documentary Cinema Book with Mandy Rose ed Brian Winston BFI  2013. Previous books include Game Cultures Dovey J & Kennedy H W Open University Press 2006, the all UWE Routledge best seller, New Media - A Critical Introduction  Lister M, Dovey J, Giddings S, Grant I and Kelly K. Routledge 2003 and 2009 and the first book on Reality TV Freakshows - First Person Media And Factual TV Pluto Press July 2000. Jon’s current work with REACT places him at the forefront of national debates about knowledge exchange in the Creative Economy.​

REACT
REACT funds collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and creative companies. These collaborations champion knowledge exchange, cultural experimentation and  the development of innovative digital technologies in the creative economy.

REACT is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.

REACT is a collaboration between the University of the West of England, Watershed, and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter.

Publications

• Sobers, S., Agusita, E. and Dovey, J. (2014) Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises. In: Community Filmmaking & Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy, BFI Southbank London, 22nd - 23rd January 2014.
• Dovey, J. and Rose, M. (2013) 'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online. In: Winston, B., ed. (2013) The Documentary Film Book. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 366-375. ISBN 9781844573417
• Bachmann, G., Dovey, J., Monaco, J. and Sharpe, B. (2012) Cultural value networks summary report. Project Report. Digital Cultures Research Centre .
• Bachmann, G., Dovey, J., Monaco, J. and Sharpe, B. (2012) Cultural value networks research findings. Project Report. Digital Cultures Research Centre .
• Dovey, J. and Rose, M. (2012) We’re happy and we know it : Documentary: Data: Montage. Studies in Documentary Film, 6 (2). pp. 159-173. ISSN 1750-3280
• Fleuriot, C. and Dovey, J. (2012) Pervasive media cookbook. Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol UK.
• Fleuriot, C. and Dovey, J. (2012) Keeping in touch - final report. Project Report. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol.
• Dovey, J., Fleuriot, C. and Miskelly, C. (2011) Keeping in touch. Discussion Paper. University of the West of England, Bristol.
• Dovey, J. and Rose, M. (2011) This great mapping of ourselves: New documentary forms online. In: Winston, B., ed. (2011) BFI Companion to Documentary. Palgrave. [In Press]
• Dovey, J. (2010) Time slice. Working Paper. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.
• Crogan, P. and Dovey, J. (2010) Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility. In: Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility, Scandic Hotel Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010.
• Dovey, J. (2010) When television became old. Working Paper. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.
• Dovey, J. (2009) Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies. In: Ludvine, A., Jones, S., Kershaw, B. and Piccini, A., eds. (2009) Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230220010
• Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Grant, I. H. and Kelly , K. (2009) New media - A critical introduction. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415431613
• Dovey, J. and Lister, M. (2009) Straw men or cyborgs? Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 1 (1). pp. 129-145. ISSN 1757-2681
• Dovey, J. (2008) Simulating the public sphere. In: Austin, T. and de Jong, W., eds. (2008) Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices. McGraw Hill, pp. 246-257. ISBN 978-0335221912
• Dovey, J. (2008) Dinosaurs and butterflies - media practice research in new media ecologies. Journal of Media Practice, 9 (3). pp. 243-256. ISSN 1468-2753
• Dovey, J. (2007) Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content. In: Transforming Audiences, Westminster University, London, 6-7 September 2007.
• Kennedy, H. W. and Dovey, J. (2007) Technicity: power and difference in game cultures. In: Keynote: GameInAction, Goteborg, Sweden, 13-15 June 2007., pp. 1-30
• Dovey, J. (2006) How do you play? Identity technology and Ludic culture. Working Paper. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.
• Kennedy, H. W. and Dovey, J. (2006) Games culture: Computer games as new media. McGraw Hill, Open University Press. ISBN 9780335213573
• Kennedy, H. W. and Dovey, J. (2006) Playing the ring: intermediality and ludic narratives in the Lord of the Rings games. In: Mathijs, E., ed. (2006) Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context. Wallflower Press, pp. 254-269. ISBN 1904764835
• Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Grant, I. H. and Kelly , K. (2003) New Media: A Critical Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 0415223776