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Purpose – to provide insight into the social media related information behaviours of Muslim women within Arab society, and to explore issues of societal constraint and control, and impact on behaviours. Design/methodology/approach – semi-structured interviews with Muslim women resident within the capital city of a nation within the Arabian Peninsula. Findings – social media provides our participants with an important source of information and social connection, and medium for personal express...

As in the broader cultural sector, COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for cinema exhibitors in the UK and worldwide. Venues have been forced to close for months, operate with substantial uncertainty, or re-open with reduced capacity. Still, their position remains precarious and the challenges to the sustainability of the sector are ongoing: changing restrictions and associated increased costs, reduction in production and distribution pipelines. The British Film Institute highlighte...

In recent years, the increasing number of interactive films being released, has highlighted the need for further development of methods and criteria that can guide the earlier stages of development, such as the scriptwriting process. Following the framework of interactive storytelling as a spectrum, it is acknowledged that writing a script for an interactive narrative that involves branching path options for navigating through the story, or multiple endings, is becoming more common and presen...

First paragraph: This is the second edited collection published in English by the Besides the Screen network (there are other Portuguese-language publications). This prolific and international alliance has made space for a highly original approach to screen cultures, which brings academics, artists, curators, filmmakers and film exhibitors into dialogue and foregrounds materiality and practice. The conferences and events organized by the network, in Brazil and the UK (and, more recently, onli...