Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
Three-D, issue 30 (PDF, 2 Mb) In this issue: 1 CPBF folds, hands baton to academics and online activists (Einar Thorsen) Media Policy 2 Campaigning for responsible and accountable media after end of CPBF (Tim Gopsill) 4 Draft proposals for the future of the BBC (Tom Mills) 5 DCMS “Fake News” Report: time for a new …Continue Reading
Einar Thorsen Bournemouth University It is nearly 40 years since the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) was first set up by the print, journalism and broadcasting unions to combat the growing power of large media corporations. Since then it has grown to be a significant actor in a broader campaign for diverse and …Continue Reading
CALL FOR PAPERS Post-Representative Participations: Engaging with Civic Action in the Times of Digital Citizenship School of Media, University of Brighton (UK) 16th November 2018 Keynote speakers: Professor Nico Carpentier, Uppsala University + TBC The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association’s Postgraduate Network (MeCCSA PGN), the Participatory Communication Research (PCR) section of the International Association of …Continue Reading
Tianyang Zhou University of Sussex Aurora Patera CCU “Media, Communities, Cultures” was a Big Success The MeCCSA PGN Conference 2018 was held at Canterbury Christ Church University on 5th – 6th June 2018. The conference featured three keynote speeches by Dr Einar Thorsen, Prof Nico Carpentier and Dr Kaitlynn Mendes and the roundtable discussion …Continue Reading
Helen Gubbins University of Sheffield Josephine Coleman Birkbeck College, University of London MeCCSA Radio Studies Network at the 2018 Transnational Radio Conference, Prato, Italy From the 10th – 13th of July 2018, over 150 radio and audio specialists from all over the world descended on Prato in Northern Italy, to attend the 2018 biennial …Continue Reading
Phil Ramsey Ulster University So far in 2018 the MeCCSA Policy Network has supported two events. First, the Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking It, Breaking It, Re-Making It – What’s wrong with our media and how to fix it took place at Birkbeck, University of London on 17 March 2018. The event was a national …Continue Reading
Dominique Webb & Mikey Murray University of Lincoln The annual Journal of Media Practice and Education and MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium took place at the University of Lincoln on June 15th 2018. This year’s theme was ‘Contexts for Film Practice’ and our aim was to explore the diversity and breadth of work taking place in …Continue Reading
Rinella Cere Sheffield Hallam University The first REaPN event of the year took place in June at East London University under the iniative of a new committee member of the network, Naida Redgrave and and the Vice-Chair Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, with many invited speakers coming from as further afield as Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The …Continue Reading
Anita Biressi University of Roehampton I’m beginning this report with thanks to our previous Chair Natalie Fenton who, for an incredible 12 years, was tireless in her service to MeCCSA members. In her final Three-D report she outlined the evolving landscape of the REF and the struggles we’re experiencing as individuals, HEIs and as an …Continue Reading
Alenka Jelen-Sanchez University of Stirling We are delighted to host the first MeCCSA annual conference in Scotland at the University of Stirling from 9 to 11 January 2019. The Division of Communications, Media and Culture at Stirling has been a major academic centre for the study and research of film, media, communications and journalism for …Continue Reading
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