Research

Journal Articles

• Pope, J., 2023. The Genarrator Authoring Experience: A UX Evaluation Approach. ACM SIGWEB Newsletter (ACM Digital Library), 2023 (Autumn), 1-8.
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• Pope, J. and Gyori, B., 2023. Branching Paths: Using digital interactive storytelling to encourage marginalized young people to engage with creative writing. Writing in Education, Spring 2023 (89), 41-48.
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• Pope, J., Rossi, G.C., Pyke, T., Skains, R.L. and Wisdom, S., 2022. The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection. Electronic British Library Journal, 2022.
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• Pope, J. and Gyori, B., 2021. Decision Points. Writing in Education, 18-25.
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• Pope, J., 2017. Further on down the digital road Narrative design and reading pleasure in five New Media Writing Prize narratives. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, online, 1-20.
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• Pope, J., 2014. Children’s Responses to Heroism in Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Children’s Literature in Education, 45 (3).
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• Pope, J., 2013. The way ahead: The teaching of hyper-narrative at Bournemouth University. New Writing, 10 (2), 206-218.
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• Pope, J., 2010. Where Do We Go From Here? Readers' Responses to Interactive Fiction: Narrative Structures, Reading Pleasure and the Impact of Interface Design. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,, 16, 75-94.
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• Pope, J., 2009. The design and development of Genarrator at Bournemouth University. Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, 8, 157-167.
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• Pope, J., 2009. The significance of navigation and interactivity design for readers’ responses to interactive narrative. Dichtung Digital, 39.
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• Pope, J., 2006. A Future for Hypertext Fiction. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,, 12, 447-465.
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Books

• Pope, J., 2020. Part I: The history, politics, commercialisation, and diversification of women's artistic gymnastics: Jenny's story Part I: Frank.
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• Pope, J., 2020. Part II: The gymnast experience: Jenny's story Part II: An unexpected event.
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• Pope, J., 2020. Part III: Coach-athlete relationships: Jenny's story Part III: Worries and pressures.
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• Pope, J., 2020. Part IV: The multiple actors involved in creating an elite gymnast: Jenny's story Part IV: Enough's enough.
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• Pope, J. and Pope, J., 2001. Semi-Perfect. London: Piccadilly Press.
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• Pope, J., 1998. Wonders Never Cease. London: Piccadilly Press.
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• Pope, J., 1997. Spin the Bottle. Piccadilly Press.
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• Pope, J., 1997. Dishing The Dirt. London: Piccadilly Press.
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• Pope, J., 1995. The Magnificent Two. Anderson Press.
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• Pope, J., 1994. Magnificent!. Random House (UK).
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Chapters

• Pope, J., 2020. Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. In: Kerr, R., Barker-Ruchti, N., Stewart, C. and Kerr, G., eds. Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. Abingdon: Routledge, 1-246.
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• Ensslin, A. and Pope, J., 2010. Digital Literature in Creative and Media Studies. In: Simanowski, R., Schafer, J. and Gendolla, P., eds. Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbook. Transcript, 311-328.
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Conferences

• Pope, J., Kitromili, S. and Hargood, C., 2023. The Genarrator Authoring Experience: A UX evaluation approach. In: Narrative and Hypertext 2023 4 September-8 October 2023 Rome. http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2023/proceedings.htm.
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• Kitromili, S., Hargood, C., Millard, D., Zhao, H. and Pope, J., 2022. Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13762 LNCS, 483-498.
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• Gyori, B. and Pope, J., 2020. Two digital writing projects in secondary schools. In: NAWE 22019 8-10 November 2019 York.
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• Pope, J. and Gyori, B., 2017. Digital Storytelling in the Community. In: MIX Digital 10-12 July 2017 Bath Spa University.
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• Pope, J., 2017. Genarrator: Digital Storytelling for all Skill-levels. In: NAWE 2016 11-13 November 2016 Stratford-upon-Avon.
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• Round, J. and Pope, J., 2014. Children’s Responses to Heroism in Roald Dahl’s Matilda. In: Devils and Dolls 14-15 March 2013 Bristol University. Children's Literature in Education: an international quarterly, 46 (3) Springer Verlag (Germany).
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Internet Publications

• Pope, J., 2018. The New Media Writing Prize: the first eight years.. The Writing Platform. Available from: http://thewritingplatform.com/2018/03/new-media-writing-prize/.
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• Pope, J., 2017. JR Carpenter takes the big prize at the 2016 New Media Writing Prize Awards. The Literary Platform. Available from: http://theliteraryplatform.com/magazine/2017/01/jr-carpenter-takes-the-big-prize-at-the-2016-new-media-writing-prize-awards/.
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• Pope, J., 2015. The New Media Writing Prize: The Interviews. The Writing Platform. Available from: http://thewritingplatform.com/2015/07/the-new-media-writing-prize-the-interviews/.
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• Pope, J., 2015. The New Media Writing Prize: The First Five Years. The Writing Platform. Available from: http://www.thewritingplatform.com/2015/04/the-new-media-writing-prize-the-first-five-years/.
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• Pope, J., 2013. 'A writing tool for new media storytellers'. The Literary Platform. Available from: http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/.
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• Pope, J., 2013. 'Random House explore the world of interactive narrative’. The Literary Platform. Available from: http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/.
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• Pope, J., 2013. ‘Hamlet’s Big Question Becomes Your Big Question’. The Literary Platform. Available from: http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2013/07/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-adventure-2/.
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• Pope, J., 2009. Designing the digital tale. Interjunction. Available from: http://interjunction.org/article/designing-the-digital-tale/.
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• Pope, J., 2009. Twists in the digital tale. Interjunction. Available from: http://interjunction.org/article/twists-in-the-digital-tale/.
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Scholarly Editions

• Pope, J. and Reyes, M.C., 2021. Texts of Discomfort: Interactive Storytelling Art. Carnegie Mellon University: ETC Press.
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Profile of Teaching UG

• Children's Literature; Interactive Digital Storytelling; Creative writing; Dissertation supervision

External Responsibilities

• International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling, co-chair digital art exhibition (2019-2020), https://icids2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

• British Library Emerging Formats archive (05 Mar 2020)
• Digital Conversations (18 Jul 2019)
• New Media Writing Prize (01 Jun 2018)
• Digital Storytelling in the Community (01 Jan 2018-09 Jun 2023)

Qualifications

• PhD in Readers' responses to interactive fiction (Bournemouth University, 2007)

Memberships

• NAWE, Member (2014-), http://www.nawe.co.uk/
• MeCCSA, Member (2000-), http://www.meccsa.org.uk/

Website Links

• Writing and publishing site for digital storytelling: created by James Pope, http://genarrator.org/
• international competition promoting and celebrating interactive storytelling in digital media, http://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/