Sue Thornham University of Sussex As we approach the annual conference and AGM, this issue of Three-D contains information not only about this year’s conference, to be hosted by the University of Bournemouth between 8th and 10th of January, with the theme of ‘media and the margins’, but also about next year’s, to be held …Continue Reading
Jason Lee University of Derby Through the use of cultural theory and popular culture, creative writing and recent higher education history, in this article I ask is it possible to actually think and be ‘innovative’ in a corporate university, and examine the current issues at stake in Higher Education through a personal lens. In Lacanian …Continue Reading
Rahma Al Foori University of Leicester Following the story of this conference’s success, featured in Three-D last year (November 2012, issue 19) the story continues this year on the 14th June 2013 at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester. The department’s initiative to encourage PhD students to organize and participate in academic …Continue Reading
Steph Allen Bournemouth University At certain times of the academic year, there comes a time of dread. This period of concern:the the obligatory essay hand-back. Students who have pored hours of their time considering the merits of one argument over the other, adding their own pearls of youthful wisdom, wait with baited breath for the …Continue Reading
Shaun Day Reel News Lee Salter University of Sussexl Radical media projects have been gaining the attention of critical scholars intensely over the past two decades. The rise of Indymedia, and before that Undercurrents, demonstrated how new digital media technologies could be used by activists to produce inexpensive counter-narratives as well as casting a news …Continue Reading
Steve Presence University of the West of England, Bristol The past few years have seen a groundswell in the production of overtly political film culture in Britain, which is now home to variety of organisations and groups dedicated to making, distributing, exhibiting, and researching films that are explicitly aligned with the radical left. On Monday …Continue Reading
Anthony Killick University of the West of England, Bristol This piece looks at the political swing to the Right that has taken place in the UK over the past thirty years, with an emphasis on how it affects our capacity for critical cultural production. I am concerned with developing practices within film and Film Studies …Continue Reading
Anna Feigenbaum Bournemouth University The Crisis Generation Like thousands of other early career scholars, I earned my PhD as the economy collapsed. Already trending toward precarity, academic jobs became even more part-time and non-permanent. In the UK, the post-16 education sector is now the second most casualised workforce, falling one ranking behind the hospitality industry. …Continue Reading
Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg, Media Reform Coalition Right in the middle of the summer, and without much fanfare, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published two documents that set out its plans for the media and communication sectors. Perhaps it thought that no one would notice during the hot weather. The first …Continue Reading
Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University By mid-March, David Cameron got tired of discussing media reform and decided to force a Parliamentary vote on the issue – seeking to impose a Royal Charter instead of Leveson’s recommendations. After some last minute wrangling the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour had reached an agreement. Confusion reigned as each of the …Continue Reading
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