Ian Somerville

TL;DR: This paper explored and analyzed the narratives of transgender people in relation to their experiences of sport and physical activity. But, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of trans people in sport.

TL;DR: Actor-network theory as mentioned in this paper proposes that the notion of agency offers an alternative "amodern" perspective from which to explore how entities, or actors, influence other actors through the process of translation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households, focusing on dialogues with multiple household members in group conversations and finding that there are recurrent narratives and behavioral patterns across households.

TL;DR: The authors empirically corroborates this claim through four case studies cutting across different European cultural clusters and political systems, and unpacks how businesses communicatively construct a link between their private interest and the public interest.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the public relations strategies employed by the mainstream political parties during the "Good Friday Agreement" referendum campaign in Northern Ireland in April/May 1998 and found that there was a significant increase in the deployment of public relations expertise in the referendum campaign; indeed, for many of the political parties it represented their first major investment in political public relations.