Simon Popple Editor & Author

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).