HCID Friday Seminar: Graphic Medicine – Using Comics Within the Mental Health Domain

On Friday 20th January 2017, I will present within the Seminar Series at the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. The title of my talk is "Graphic Medicine: Using Comics as a Mental Health Information Resource". The seminar will be held in AG08, College Building, from 1pm - 2pm.

The 2016 Altmetric Top 100 Outputs with ‘Comics’ as Keyword

Inspired by Altmetric's annual Top 100 list I used the Altmetric Explorer to search for the top articles with keyword ‘comics’ mentioned in the past 1 year. I shared the dataset on figshare.

Adapting Dementia Care Best Practice Data into Comics: Enhancing Impact Through Graphic Medicine

We will be organising knowledge exchange workshops between HCID researchers, mental health professionals, comics scholars and comics artists, focusing on the reuse and adaptation into comics of the dementia care best practice data collected the Care'N'Share project.

The Open Library of Humanities One Year On: A Chat with Martin Paul Eve

Professor Martin Paul Eve will give a talk titled "A New Model for Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities One Year On" on Thursday 27 October 2016 at City, University of London, as part of Open Access Week.

New Publication: Editorial: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

Yesterday the editorial my colleague Nicolas Pillai and I co-wrote was published on The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 6, p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.92

New Publication: Data Paper. Data from Graphic Medicine… Insigths from Comics Producers

Excited to have a new peer-reviewed publication, a data paper on the Journal of Open Health Data: Farthing, A. & Priego, E., (2016). Data from ‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers. Open Health Data. 4(1), p.e3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ohd.25

New addition to the Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics special collection

I have co-edited with Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. We have published a new addition to the collection.

‘BBCDebate’ on Twitter. A First Look into an Archive of #BBCDebate Tweets

"The BBC's Great Debate" was broadcasted live in the UK by between 20:00 and 22:00 BST. I collected some of the Tweets tagged with #BBCDebate using a Google Spreadsheet. I have shared a dataset and share some insights from the data here.

“Stronger In”: Looking Into a Sample Archive of 1,005 StrongerIn Tweets

I have now shared a spreadsheet containing an archive of 1,005 @StrongerIn Tweets publicly published by the queried account between12/06/2016 13:34:35 and 21/06/2016 13:11:34 BST.

“Vote Leave”: Looking Into a Sample Archive of 1,100 vote_leave Tweets

As the date to vote in person approaches, I collected and shared a dataset of tweets published by the official Leave campaign Twitter account, @vote_leave, between 12/06/2016 09:06:22 - 21/06/2016 09:29:29 BST. The dataset contains 1,100 tweets.