Lindiwe DoveySOAS University of London In a recent article for the online creative research journal PARSE, called “On Teaching and Being Taught: Reflections on Decolonising Pedagogy”, I describe at length my own journey towards decolonising one of my courses. This course focuses on African filmmaking, and so one might say already represents a rare, diverse offering within …Continue Reading
Deborah GabrielBournemouth University My earliest experience of racism in British education was at the age of five, when a dinner lady marched over to me in the playground during a primary school break and said: “Why don’t you go back to your own country?” I was shaken and perplexed and mumbled in reply: “But this …Continue Reading
Einar ThorsenBournemouth University This issue of Three-D lands in a tumultuous period for Higher Education. Talk of ‘extraordinary times’ has gradually been replaced by the ‘new normal’, as we adjust to the ‘extra’ being dropped from the ‘ordinary’. Campuses are slowly reopening to prepare for an academic year that will be defined by how we adopt and …Continue Reading
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all our lives and working practices and MeCCSA is no exception, with all Association activities such as Exec Committee meetings, supporting Network activities and publishing Three-D, now taking place online. In recognising that the postponement of the annual conference to January 2022 means that one of …Continue Reading
Dear Colleagues, It is with great regret to announce that we will not be holding MECCSA 2021 in Aberdeen on the premises of Robert Gordon University in January 2021, as was planned. We have made this difficult decision because of the likely longer term uncertainties and impacts of Covid-19, and the social distancing measures that …Continue Reading
Sarah Pedersen Planning continues for the 2021 MeCCSA conference, to be held at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, from 6th to 8th January 2021. Media, journalism and communication have been taught at RGU for over twenty years and we now sit within the School of Creative and Cultural Business, established in 2016. The School’s wider portfolio includes …Continue Reading
Three-D, issue 33 (PDF, 4.6 Mb) In this issue:1 2019 Election Special: policy, media & campaign (Einar Thorsen) Election 2019: manifestoes 2 It Says Here (Julian McDougall) 4 Manifesto pledges on media reform: what’s in and what’s not (Natalie Fenton) Election 2019: campaign 7 Weren’t the mainstream media supposed not to matter? (David Deacon, Jackie …Continue Reading
Emma Kaylee GravesCanterbury Christ Church University MeCCSA’s Postgraduate Network continued to engage with the postgraduate community throughout 2019. Annual Conference Our annual conference was held at Bangor University on 1-2 July 2019 with the theme of “Evolution”. The conference saw several paper presentations on topics ranging from journalism and broadcasting to media production, ethics and …Continue Reading
Beth JohnsonLeeds University The MeCCSA Women’s Network contributed funding to two excellent events last month. ‘The Cultural Politics of Meghan Markle Symposium’ took place on 15th November at Conway Hall, London. The symposium set out to exchange ideas and develop ideas for the authors taking part in two special issues on the cultural politics of …Continue Reading
Stuart PriceDe Montfort University On 9th October, the Media Discourse Centre (www.dmu.ac.uk/mdc), the MeCCSA Social Movements Network, and the Documentary Media Centre, hosted the 5th Annual Shared Solidarities symposium, which brings together campaigners and academics to, in the words of Ros Brunt, ‘reflect on both theory and on concrete practices’. Shared Solidarities was founded by academics …Continue Reading
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