Welcome to MeCCSA

Welcome to MeCCSA, the subject association that represents all who teach or research in Higher Education in media, communications and cultural studies, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments. This includes practice-based work as well as more 'academic' disciplines.

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MeCCSA conference 2010

London School of Economicsconference
Wed 6 - Fri 8 January 2010

Hosted by the Department of Media and Communications

Competitions

Best Poster
The MeCCSA Executive Committee offered a poster competition prize of£100. Prize Awarded to Rosidayu Sabran (University of Leicester), for the poster Political Economy of Conglomeration and its impact on television programming: the case of Malaysia.

Best Paper on Art, Design and Media for Higher Education

The Art Design Media - Higher Education Academy Subject Centre (ADM-HEA) offered a £500 prize and publication for the best paperanalysing key issues impacting on media, communications and culturalstudies in higher education. Prize Awarded to Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa University) for the paper 'You just end up feeling more professional': Media production and industry ready personhood.

Best Paper on Media and Communications Policy
LSE's Department of Media and Communications offered a £300 prize andpublication in its Media@LSE Electronic Working Paper Series for thebest paper addressing critical perspectives on key issues of policyrelevance in a convergent media and communications industry. Prize Awarded to Prof.Steven Barnett (University of Westminster), What’s Wrong with Media Monopolies? A Lesson from History and a New Approach to Media Ownership Policy

MeCCSA AGM 2010 documents

Three-D newsletter - Issue 13

MeCCSA Three-D newsletter cover

October 2009

In this issue: Apocalypse now: climate change, Digital Britain and REF! (Einar Thorsen); Features: Climate change, sustainability, and higher education (Peter Brooks, Neil T.Gavin, Alex Lockwood); Digital Britain (Steven Barnett, Patricia Holland, Peter Lewis), From RAE to REF (Peter Golding); Reports and initiatives: Chair’s report (Christine Geraghty), MeCCSA Annual Conference (Robin Mansell, Myria Georgiou), My five years at MeCCSA (Salvatore Scifo), Practice Section (Jason Lee), Women’s Media Studies Network, Policy Network (Máire Messenger Davies, Natalie Fenton), Postgraduate Network (Shelley Thompson, Amy Chambers, Jennifer Krase, Jean Northam).

Back issues…

Climate change, sustainability, and the media

29 April, 2010 

MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network launch event.

University of Westminster

Hosted by School of Media, Arts and Design in collaboration with ConnectionFactory

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The Public Intellectual: Feminism, Power, Celebrity

25 May, 2010

Location: British Library

Hosted by Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality, Roehampton University, London

Co-sponsored by: The MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and the Journal of Gender Studies 

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MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference 2010

30 June - 1 July, 2010

University of Glasgow

Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies

> Conference information

Brochure: Media programmes at university

This brochure was sent to all schools and colleges to help people choose what media course to take at university. It explains the range of courses available and what kind of careers they can lead to. More detailed information can be found in the FAQs .

Communications

MeCCSA on JISCmail

MeCCSA and its Networks operate discussion and information lists through the JISCmail system. Click the following links for information or to join:

The MeCCSA Radio Studies Network encourages interested colleagues to subscribe to the Radio Studies list, a forum for teachers, researchers and broadcasters active since 1998.

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