Julie DoyleUniversity of BrightonMichael GoodmanUniversity of Reading The Climate Change Network has focused upon two activities during 2019: finalising a special issue of Climatic Change on the topic, ‘Practicing Everyday Climate Cultures’; and organising a roundtable for the MeCCSA 2020 conference at University of Brighton on the subject, ‘Media in/for the anthropocene: What is the responsibility of …Continue Reading
Maurizio CinquegraniRichard MisekUniversity of Kent The annual MPE and MeCCSA Practice annual symposium took place at the University of Kent on June 14th 2019. The title of this year’s conference was ‘Shaping Knowledge; encounters between word and image’. The aim of the event was to explore the interaction of word and image across a range …Continue Reading
Rachel MatthewsCoventry University Despite being less than a year old, the Local and Community Media Network has been gratified by the level of interest shown by people within and without the academy in our work to promote research into this vital area. Since our formation in April 2019, we have been networking with a variety …Continue Reading
Anita BiressiUniversity of Roehampton There has been no shortage of MeCCSA business since my last report of which the outline to follow is only an indication. We continue to defend our discipline against the mainstream media’s lazy, derogatory stereotyping of media studies as a worthless or easy subject and of media studies students as dupes …Continue Reading
Ewan Kirkland & Julie DoyleUniversity of Brighton The MeCCSA 2020 Brighton conference planning team have been hard at work with the plans for the conference in January and are pleased to share some updates with everyone. The registration site launched back at the end of September and we’ve had a fantastic response, with around 160 …Continue Reading
Phil RamseyUlster University Many media policy watchers will take a keen interest in the November 2019 launch of BritBox in the UK. The service brings together content from ITV and the BBC, and will later include content from Channel 4. BritBox has launched into what is now an exceptionally competitive Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) …Continue Reading
Shelley CobbUniversity of Southampton In this moment when key players and activists in the UK film industry appear to agree on the importance and value of fair representation of different social groups on screen, as well as in filmmaking and television production, diversity as an idea and ideal is wearing thin in places and not …Continue Reading
Vincent MøystadTom GreenwoodGoldsmiths, University of London Casualisation of academic staff is one of the key issues of this strike. Casualisation refers to the tendency of academic work to be split up into smaller, part-time jobs on fixed contracts. More and more academic workers face a precarious existence, expected to carry out more work for less …Continue Reading
Abigail RhodesUniversity of Nottingham Throughout 2019 Extinction Rebellion (XR) made UK headlines with their protest repertoires and numerous deliberately disruptive non-violent direct actions (NVDA) with the intention of drawing attention to the climate and ecological emergency. As the general election approached, XR embarked on a series of tactics in an effort to ensure that the …Continue Reading
Des FreedmanGoldsmiths, University of London Democracy requires a free and independent media, especially during elections when there is a particular need fairly to scrutinise parties, politicians and manifestos. This is a far cry from what we have in the UK. Comprehensive research from the team at Loughborough University shows that, in the first three weeks of the …Continue Reading
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