Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
Toussaint Nothias Christiaan de Beukelaer Univeristy of Leeds Leeds has been a great place to visit this summer. Not only has it welcomed the Tour de France, but it is also where the 11th Annual MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference took place on June 23rd and 24th! The conference theme was ‘Global Interdependence: Knowledge, Experience and Theory’, …Continue Reading
Ruth Sanz Sabido Canterbury Christ Church Uni. Since its foundation in 2013, the Social Movements Network has held two international conferences and is in the process of organising two further events. Our inaugural event, “Generations of Protest: Marxism Matters?”, took place on 20-21 November 2013. The conference programme brought together a wide range of …Continue Reading
Michael Chanan University of Roehampton The symposium on audiovisual creative practice held at Roehampton University on June 14th, ‘Image Movement Story’, threw up an issue that reflects the incoherence of the research policies that fund our activities. On the one hand, judging from the wide range of projects under discussion, including work by supervisors of …Continue Reading
Neil Gavin Liverpool University The CCES has recently staged a successful symposium event, held in Liverpool on May 30th this year: ‘Keeping the Flame Alive?: Climate Change, the Media and the Public’. It was attended by around forty people form a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly backgrounds, and was themed around the coverage of …Continue Reading
Peter Golding Northumbria University MeCCSA’s response to the ESRC dated 26/06/2014 in light of the above review. I write as Hon. Sec. of MeCCSA, the subject association representing students in media, communication and cultural studies in UK higher education. The above Review has been discussed by the Association Executive, and the following comments arise …Continue Reading
Giannina Warren Goldsmiths, University of London The last few years have witnessed some dramatic shifts in the funding structures and government policy related to Higher Education (HE) in the UK. Since 2011/12 Universities have had the block teaching grant removed from arts, humanities and social science subjects and students have been charged up to £9k …Continue Reading
Tim O’Sullivan De Montfort University This is the first edition of Three-D this year, slightly later than usual, and the academic year has seemed to accelerate to its end of assessments, Exam Boards and Graduations, with planning for Clearing and the new academic cycle already well under way. It is that time of year when …Continue Reading
Rosemary White James Leggott Northumbria University The dynamic conference team at Northumbria are working hard on preparations for the 2015 MeCCSA conference in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Put 7th – 9th January in your diary now! The CFP has already gone out (see next page) – as you can see we have a stellar set of …Continue Reading
Three-D, Issue 22 (PDF, 2.1 Mb) In this issue: 1 Some change, but battles far from over (Einar Thorsen) Media Reform: 2 So they think it’s all over? (Julian Petley) 4 After the sentence (Bethany Usher) 5 Media plurality (Jonathan Hardy) 8 NSA/GCHQ, state power and surveillance (Lee Salter) Stuart Hall: 10 MeCCSA and Stuart …Continue Reading
Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Shelley Thompson & Hugh Chignell MeCCSA 2014 Conference Comm. Bournemouth University The MeCCSA Annual Conference 2014 was hosted by Bournemouth University at its Talbot Campus, 8-10th January 2014. We would like to thank everyone who attended for making this such a great conference! Special thanks to those who were …Continue Reading
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