Conference Committee University of East Anglia (UEA) The University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to be hosting the forthcoming 2013 MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference on 2nd – 3rd July 2013. The event is organised by the school of Film, Television and Media Studies (FTM) in collaboration with other schools across UEA’s Faculty of Arts and …Continue Reading
Heather Nunn Roehampton University The WMSN recently collaborated with the MeCCSA Practice Network to support a one-day symposium on Female Authorship. The event was organised by Dr Sarah Neely, University of Stirling as part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival’s programme. Invited panelists to this stimulating event included filmmakers, academics, curators, artists and writers. A …Continue Reading
Sarah Neely, University of Stirling The Female Authorship Symposium was held on Friday the 8th of February at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. The event was hosted by the Glasgow Short Film Festival and received support from the MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network, MeCCSA Practice Network, the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies and the …Continue Reading
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster For most of 2012, continuing into 2013, and no doubt beyond, media policy debates and events have been dominated by questions raised by the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, whose report was published on 29th November 2012 – see https://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc1213/hc07/0780/0780.asp. (For an executive …Continue Reading
Ruth Sanz Sabido & Stuart Price, De Montfort University The MeCCSA Social Movements Network was recently established in order to create opportunities to discuss the role of media, film, communication and cultural studies in the analysis of social movements. The purpose of this initiative is to improve the ability of researchers to engage with activists and groups, …Continue Reading
Sylvia Harvey, University of Leeds Some MeCCSA members will be aware that, following retirement, many academics lose their professional email address and their access to the University library, including electronic books and journals. There is, arguably, a wider problem here as there may be other members of the public who contributed to the growth of university …Continue Reading
Peter Golding, Northumbria University The editor of Three-D suggested members would welcome an update on preparations for the REF (which surely no longer needs spelling out!) as we start counting down in weeks rather than years to the submission deadline of November 29th. So, wearing, somewhat uncomfortably, two hats as a MeCCSA Executive Committee member and …Continue Reading
Sue Thornham, University of Sussex This issue of Three-D is the first to appear following the hugely successful Derry conference. As always, the conference offered a mix of academic papers, policy debates, pedagogic discussions, screenings and exhibitions. What was particularly impressive for those who, like me, had little previous familiarity with the city, was the ways …Continue Reading
British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) In the era of YouTube, podcasts and vidcasts recently launched pioneering guidelines will be crucial for students, researchers and academics when they cite moving image and sound sources, or provide advice on referencing them. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc …Continue Reading
Charlie Beckett, LSE Is the world really changing rapidly or does it just appear that way? There’s been a dizzying transformation in media and communications over the last ten years and one its biggest effects is to make everything else seem to be spinning fast, too. When a meteorite crashed into Russia injuring 1200 people …Continue Reading
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