Category Archives: Three-D Issue 17
Three-D Issue 17: KIS my Ass(essment): the White Paper on Higher Education
Natalie Fenton Goldsmiths College, University of London This time last year I wrote an article for the MeCCSA newsletter on the proposals to remove the block teaching grant to undergraduate courses in arts, humanities and social sciences (so-called Band C … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: The 2011/12 Postgraduate Network Committee
Ruth Sanz Sabido De Montfort University The new MeCCSA-PGN executive board was elected at a meeting on 4th July during the MeCCSA PGN annual conference, hosted by University of Bournemouth. Following the work of previous committees, and in line with … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: The 2011 MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference
Shelley Thompson Bournemouth University More than 60 papers, nearly 100 postgraduates and early post-doctoral researchers, three keynotes and plenary session, two workshops, and a barbecue on the beach. That was the recipe for a successful 8th Annual MeCCSA-Postgraduate Network Conference … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: Mediating Women, War and Terror
Heather Nunn Roehampton University The Women’s Media Studies Network tenth anniversary event, which took place on 12th September, celebrated the on-going success of the network and recognised the diversity of events we have organised over the last ten years since … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 17: Report from the Disability Studies Network
Alison Wilde Bangor University Over the year since our inaugural conference, we have steadily built the network. A steering group was formed after Professor Colin Barnes’ impassioned keynote speech given at the MeCCSA Annual Conference in January. Supporting the aims … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 17: Report on first Race Network conference
Sarita Malik Brunel University September saw the first event co-organised by the MeCCSA Race Network. In a conscious effort to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners, this event was focused on questions of race and the cultural industries. The debates … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: Practice Network event and policy review
Joanna Callaghan University of Bedfordshire In June the Practice Network supported the annual Journal of Media Practice symposium on the 24th June at the Watershed in Bristol, hosted by UWE Bristol. The one-day symposium explored how digital technologies have redefined … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: ‘Switching off Analogue’: digital radio policymaking and the public
Stephen Lax University of Leeds Stephen Lax chaired the seminar, and in his opening comments remarked upon the different fortunes of digital broadcasting systems in the UK: on the face of it, at the time of the beginning of their … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: Media policy in the headlines
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster Since the last issue of Three-D, media policy issues have been almost constantly in the headlines, particularly due to the phone-hacking story: the closure of the News of the World, the parliamentary hearings with … Continue reading
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Three-D Issue 17: MeCCSA Annual Conference 2012
Conference Organisers University of Bedfordshire The Bedfordshire Institute of Media Arts and Performance (BIMAP) is delighted to host the MeCCSA 2012 Conference on 11th, 12th and 13th January 2012. We look forward to welcoming delegates from across the UK and … Continue reading