Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences

Our publications

Our publications

A selection of recent publications by our academic members of staff

Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S.  (2018). Applying cultural values to encourage disaster preparedness: Lessons from a low-hazard country, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, 37-44.

Ballarini, N. & Thornton, I. M. (2017). Matching Biological Motion across Viewpoints. Xjenza Online, 5:21-29. doi:10.7423/XJENZA.2017.1.03

Bülthoff, I., Mohler, B. J. & Thornton, I. M. (2018). Face recognition of full-bodied avatars by active observers in a virtual environment. Vision Research, in press.

Camilleri, M.A. (2018). The Circular Economy’s Closed Loop and Product Service Systems for Sustainable Development: A Review and Appraisal. Sustainable Development. In press.

Camilleri, M.A. (2018). The SMEs’ Technology Acceptance of Digital Media for Stakeholder Engagement. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise. In press.

Camilleri, M.A. (2018). Theoretical Insights on Integrated Reporting: The Inclusion of Non-Financial Capitals in Corporate Disclosures. Corporate Communications: An International Journal. In press. DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-01-2018-0016

Camilleri, M.A. (2018). Closing the Loop for Resource Efficiency, Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Critical Review of the Circular Economy. International Journal of Sustainable Development. In press. DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2018.10012310

Camilleri, M.A. (2017). The Integrated Reporting of Financial, Social and Sustainability Capitals: A Critical Review and Appraisal. The International Journal of Sustainable Society. 9(4), 311-326.

Caruana A., Vella J., Konietzny J., Chircop S., (2018). Corporate Greed: Its effect on Customer Satisfaction, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Reputation among Bank Customers. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, in press.

Cassar M. L., Caruana A., & Konietzny J., (2018) Positioning narratives of wine tourism websites: a lexical analysis across two different regions, Journal of Wine Research, 29(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571264.2018.1433140

Cassar M. L., Vella J. M., & Caruana A. (2018). Positioning of wine tourism websites across different winescapes: a lexical analyses and implications. International Journal of Wine Business Research, in  press.

Catania, S. (2018). Tempests of the Impulse-Soul: Brontéan Elemental Paradoxism in Bufiuel‘s Abismos de Pasién. In Refractions: Romanticism, Modernism, Comparatism, in press.

Edge, M. (2018). Blog wars in Fiji: Soft power in a South Pacific military dictatorship. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies 6(1), 21-39.

Edge, M. (2018). News as Hazardous Waste: Postmedia, the Competition Bureau, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Canadian Journal of Communication 42(5), 851-865.

Estol, J., Camilleri, M.A. & Font, X. (2018). European Union Tourism Policy: An Institutional Theory Critical Discourse Analysis. Tourism Review. 73(3), 421-431.

Hartkamp, M., & Thornton, I. M. (2017). Meditation, cognitive flexibility and well-being. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 1-15.

Kim, S., Mitterer, H., & Cho, T. (2018). A time course of prosodic modulation in phonological inferencing: The case of Korean post-obstruent tensing. PLoS One, 13, 1-28. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202912

Konietzny, J. & Caruana, A. (2018). Fair and easy: The effect of perceived fairness, effort expectancy and user experience on online gambling intention. International Gambling Studies. In press. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2018.1526313

Konietzny J., Caruana A., & Cassar M.L. (2018) Fun and fair, and I don’t care: The Role of Enjoyment, Fairness and Subjective Norms on Online Gambling Intentions Journal of Retailing & Customer Service, 44(September) 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2018.06.010

Kosciejew, Marc. (2018). A Documentary-Material Approach for Performance. Proceedings from the Document Academy, 5 (1).

Kosciejew, Marc. (2018). Documentation and the Information of Art. Tate Papers, 29 (Spring 2018):

Kosciejew, Marc. (2018). From North Korea With Love: Reviewing Pyongyang’s Arirang Mass Games. Performance Philosophy, 4 (1): 234-250.

Kristjánsson, T., Thornton, I. M. & Kristjánsson, Á (2018). Time limits during visual foraging reveal flexible working memory templates. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(6), 827-835.

Mitterer, H. (2018). The singleton-geminate distinction can be rate dependent: Evidence from Maltese. Laboratory Phonology, 9, . doi:10.5334/labphon.66

Mitterer, H. (2018). Not all geminates are created equal: Evidence from Maltese glottal consonants. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 28-44. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.003

Mitterer, H., Reinisch, E., & McQueen, J.M. (2018). Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 77-92. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.005

Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Surface forms trump underlying representations in functional generalizations in speech perception: The case of German devoiced stops. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32, 1133-1147. doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1286361

Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Visual speech influences speech perception immediately but not automatically. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 660-678. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1249-6

Morrish S., Pitt, L., Vella, J. & Botha, E. (2017). Where to Visit, What to Drink? A Cross¬National Perspective on Wine Estate Brand Personalities. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 29(4), 373-383.

Pilz, K. S., & Thornton, I. M. (2017). Idiosyncratic body motion influences person recognition. Visual Cognition, 25(4–6), 539–549.

Stiehler B. E., Caruana A., & Vella J., (2017). Using an Aesthetics and Ontology framework to investigate consumers’ attitudes toward luxury wine as a product category: Evidence from two countries. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 28(2), 154-169. [Outstanding Paper Award 2017].

Thornton I. M. (2018). Stepping into the genetics of biological motion processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 115 (8) 1687-1689; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1722625115

Treen, E., Lord Ferguson, S., Pitt, C. & Vella, J. (2018). Exploring emotions on wine websites: Finding joy. Journal of Wine Research, 29 (1) 64-70.

Vella, J., Wallstöm, Å., and Farshid, M. (2017) Financial Services Apps: What makes the difference between a great and a ghastly review? Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 22(3), 119-125.

Vigar-Ellis, D. & Caruana, A. (2018) Consumer wine knowledge: Components and segments. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 30(3), 277-291. https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/IJWBR-03-2017-0016

Biasiotti, M.A., Mifsud Bonnici, J.P., Cannataci, J., Turchi, F. (Eds.) (2018). Handling and Exchanging Electronic Evidence Across Europe. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-74872-6

Camilleri, M.A.  (Ed.) (2018). Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing. Bingley, UK: Emerald. In press. ISBN: 978-1-78756-292-9

Camilleri, M.A.  (Ed.) (2018). The Branding of Tourist Destinations. Theoretical and Empirical Insights. Emerald, Bingley, UK. In press. ISBN: 978-1-78769-374-6

Camilleri, M.A.  (Ed.) (2018). Strategic Perspectives in Destination Marketing. IGI Global, Hershey, USA. In press. ISBN13: 9781522558354 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5835-4

Cannataci, J.A.  & Mifsud Bonnici, J.P. (Eds.) (2018). Changing Communities, Changing Policing. Vienna: NWV. ISBN: 978-3-7083-1215-6

Fiorini, S. & Zammit, W. (Eds) (2018). Ecclesiastical Archives in Malta. Mdina, Malta: Cathedral Archives.

Callus, C., Brockdorff, N, & Zdravković, S. (2018). Attitudes towards using a community policing app. In J.A. Cannataci & J.P. Mifsud Bonnici (Eds.), Changing Communities, Changing Policing. Vienna: NWV

Cannataci, J.A. (2018). Safeguards to Protect Privacy from Mass Surveillance. In E. Snowden, S.  Shapiro, J.A. Cannataci, D. Igeta, H. Kuniya, & K. Deguchi (Eds). Snowden - Advice to Citizens. Japan: Shueisha.

Cannataci, J.A. (2017). Games people play: Unvarnished insights about privacy at the global level. In Gert Vermeulen and Eva Lievens (Eds). Data Protection and Privacy under Pressure: Transatlantic tensions, EU surveillance, and big data. Antwerp: Maklu.

Zammit, C. (2018). Towards a deconstruction of the self: Echoes of Fomm Ir-Rih. in Young, N. (Ed.) metafourisms; Art Practice and Documentation. Malta: Midsea Books.

Zammit, C. (2018). Heading for the Uncanny. In Borg, C. (Ed.) Flowerheads. Briffa, V. Malta.

Zammit, W. (2018). New Light on the Archive of the Inquisition in Malta during French Rule, 1798-1800. In S.Fiorini and W. Zammit (Eds),  Ecclesiastical Achives in Malta, pp. 299-330.

Zammit, W. (2018). Tapestries before Tapestries: Part I: Hospitaller Tapestries from Rhodes to Malta. Treasures of Malta, 72, pp. 66-71. Malta: Fundazzjoni Patrimonju Malti.

Zammit, W. (2018). Valletta’s Biblioteca: A National Library and a European Microcosm. In G. Bonello, P. Caruana Dingli and D. de Lucca (Eds), Encounters with Valletta: A Baroque City through the Ages, pp. 278-285. Malta: International Institute for Baroque Studies, University of Malta.

Zammit, W. (2017). Libri Erronei e pestiferi’: Maltese Publications reported to the Roman Congregations during the 19th Century. A Preliminary Survey. In F. Nepori, F. Sabba and P. Tinti (Eds),  Itinerari del libro nella storia. pp. 215-226.

Zammit, W. (2017). Some Rare Contemporary Great Siege Pamphlets. In Treasures of Malta, 70, pp. 23-26. Malta: Fundazzjoni Patrimonju Malti.


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