Sarah Allen-Reading British Universities Film & Video Council Founded in 1948, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) is a charity and membership organisation that aims to advance post-compulsory education and research by putting moving image and sound on an equal footing with text. Currently 82% of UK higher education (HE) institutions are members …Continue Reading
Neil Gavin Liverpool University In April this year Leicester University hosted a successful event under the auspices of the CCES network. This was ‘Climate Change Communication & the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities for Research’ symposium organised by Dr Nelya Koteyko, and attracting nationally and internationally situated scholars. It figured a range of papers on the …Continue Reading
Irene Rose Liverpool John Moores Univ. In July founding steering group member Alison Wilde was invited to be part of the headline panel at the Accentuate ‘One Year On’ Symposium held in partnership with the University of Brighton. The symposium explored the potential wider cultural legacy of the London 2012 Paralympics for Deaf and disabled …Continue Reading
Peter Golding Northumbria University As members know, we have been responding to the public debate about the value of media studies and similar programmes in universities. Following the renewed questioning of such programmes by ministers last year MeCCSA issued a guide to programmes in universities addressed to young students considering whether to apply or which …Continue Reading
Shaun Day Reel News Lee Salter University of Sussexl Radical media projects have been gaining the attention of critical scholars intensely over the past two decades. The rise of Indymedia, and before that Undercurrents, demonstrated how new digital media technologies could be used by activists to produce inexpensive counter-narratives as well as casting a news …Continue Reading
Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg, Media Reform Coalition Right in the middle of the summer, and without much fanfare, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published two documents that set out its plans for the media and communication sectors. Perhaps it thought that no one would notice during the hot weather. The first …Continue Reading
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