John Brissenden Bournemouth University John Wyndham’s 1957 sci-fi novel, The Midwich Cuckoos, tells the story of an English village which is visited by a mysterious extraterrestrial presence, and then plays host to a group of demonic children, who defend each other through telepathy and by controlling the minds of the villagers. In the months since …Continue Reading
Damian Tambini London School of Economics Media regulation is one of those things, like puddings, that the British think they do rather well. This helps explain the spasms of introspection that phone hacking and the failure of press self-regulation have triggered. Might we, after all, have been kidding ourselves? Is something broken in the institutional …Continue Reading
Des Freedman Goldsmiths, University of London This is a boom time for Murdoch-watchers. On 16 February 2012, the normally sober sub-editors at the Financial Times pronounced the imminent demise of the world’s most notorious media mogul with the headline ‘Gotcha! The Sun Sinks Murdoch’ attached to a Philip Stephens article on the crisis inside News …Continue Reading
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster The MeCCSA Conference in 2013 will be hosted by the University of Ulster’s School of Media, Film and Journalism at the historic Magee Campus in Derry/Londonderry, from Wednesday 9th January to Friday 11th January, 2013. Taking advantage of the location of Derry/Londonderry as the 2013 UK City of Culture, …Continue Reading
Janey Gordon University of Bedfordshire The University of Bedfordshire was delighted to welcome the MeCSSA 2012 conference.We were particularly pleased to be able to host it in and around our new campus centre, and make good use of our neighbours such as the UK Centre for Carnival Arts and even one of Luton’s listed buildings, …Continue Reading
Dear MeCCSA member, In November last year I wrote to ask you how the changes in University funding were affecting your departments. Thank you to those who responded at that time. Now that all UCAS applications for this year are more or less in, and universities have decided on their immediate strategies for dealing with …Continue Reading
Abstracts for: papers panels presentations of practice or posters should be submitted for peer review via the MeCCSA Open Conference System by Monday 10th September, 2012. Proposers will be notified of proposal acceptance. Panels Full panel proposals should include a short description and rationale (200 words) along with abstracts for each of the papers (250 …Continue Reading
Derry/Londonderry, as its dual name and nickname, Stroke City, implies, has been a divided space, geographically, politically and culturally. Its selection as UK City of Culture highlights this conflicted identity since the city’s traditions are both Irish and British (which currently encompasses Scottish, but 2013 may bring a new perspective on that …) We expect …Continue Reading
This is a Call for Papers for the next annual MeCCSA Conference, to be held from January 9-11, 2013 at the University of Ulster’s Magee Campus in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The conference has the unique advantage of being part of the UK City of Culture events, being organized in Derry/Londonderry throughout 2013 (https://www.cityofculture2013.com). The conference is …Continue Reading
‘MECCSA 2013 – SPACES AND PLACES OF CULTURE’, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER The MeCCSA Conference in 2013 will be hosted by the University of Ulster’s School of Media, Film and Journalism at the historic Magee Campus in Derry/Londonderry, (https://www.ulster.ac.uk/campus/magee/) from Wednesday 9th January to Friday 11th January, 2013. Full programme now available on the conference website …Continue Reading
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