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
Steve Presence University of the West of England, Bristol The past few years have seen a groundswell in the production of overtly political film culture in Britain, which is now home to variety of organisations and groups dedicated to making, distributing, exhibiting, and researching films that are explicitly aligned with the radical left. On Monday …Continue Reading
Anthony Killick University of the West of England, Bristol This piece looks at the political swing to the Right that has taken place in the UK over the past thirty years, with an emphasis on how it affects our capacity for critical cultural production. I am concerned with developing practices within film and Film Studies …Continue Reading
Anna Feigenbaum Bournemouth University The Crisis Generation Like thousands of other early career scholars, I earned my PhD as the economy collapsed. Already trending toward precarity, academic jobs became even more part-time and non-permanent. In the UK, the post-16 education sector is now the second most casualised workforce, falling one ranking behind the hospitality industry. …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
Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University By mid-March, David Cameron got tired of discussing media reform and decided to force a Parliamentary vote on the issue – seeking to impose a Royal Charter instead of Leveson’s recommendations. After some last minute wrangling the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour had reached an agreement. Confusion reigned as each of the …Continue Reading
Conference Report, Derry 2013 Magee Campus, University of Ulster, 9-11 January, 2013 https://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/meccsa2013/index.php Attendance 151 people registered via Eventbrite, most giving papers. 72 of these delegates also paid to attend the Gala dinner. A further 20 University of Ulster staff and students attended the conference who were helping with the conference. 6 UU people attended …Continue Reading
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster When, in 2011, we at the University of Ulster’s School of Media, Film and Journalism, decided to bid for the annual MeCCSA conference to take place on the University of Ulster’s Derry/Londonderry campus in 2013, a big plus point was that it would coincide with the beginning of Derry’s …Continue Reading
Dan Jackson & Einar Thorsen Bournemouth University Whilst it feels like we have barely emerged from the same winter that contained the MeCCSA 2013 conference held in Derry, we can report that preparations for the next Annual Conference are in full swing. The organising committee have been confirming keynotes, designing websites, negotiating hotel deals and …Continue Reading
Matthew Freeman, University of Nottingham Serving as a dynamic platform for the research of our community’s postgraduates and early career researchers, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN is an e-journal published by the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. The Network itself brings together approximately 400 postgraduate and early career researchers in the fields of media, communications, and cultural …Continue Reading
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