Lee Salter University of the West of England A film about the City of London, the Corporation that runs it and its role in the financial crisis Imagine a city consisting of fewer than 10 thousand residents. Imagine that city’s government elected by businesses, and the bigger the business, the more votes it has. This …Continue Reading
Dimitrinka Atanasova & Jennifer Cole University of Leicester On 13th June 2012 PhD students at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, hosted a one day conference event showcasing post-graduate research in the field of media and communication, titled ‘New Directions in Media Research’. This was the first event of this kind, organised …Continue Reading
Julian Matthews University of Leicester What is the value of frame analysis for understanding contemporary media outputs and their connections with those that produce and consume them? Answers to these and related questions were provided in presentations and conversations at a one-day event at the University of Leicester. ‘Caught in the frame: Frame analysis as …Continue Reading
George McKay University of Salford George McKay, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, has been appointed to a three-year leadership fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for one of its programmes, focusing on community cultures and understanding. George was lead organiser of the 2011 MeCCSA conference as well as …Continue Reading
Karen Ross University of Liverpool Thanks to all of you who have joined, re-joined or renewed their membership for the 2012-13 membership year, which started on 1 September. We appreciate your support!. Membership statistics as of the end of October is outlined in the table below. So, members are doing a lot better at renewing …Continue Reading
Sue Thornham University of Sussex As we approach the annual conference and AGM, this issue of Three-D contains information not only about this year’s conference, to be hosted in Derry by the University of Ulster in co-ordination with Derry’s 2013 UK City of Culture programme, but also about next year’s, to be held at the …Continue Reading
Neil Gavin Liverpool University The CCES had some notable successes over the course of the last year or so, and will strive to maintain the momentum. There was the well-attended ‘Reaching the Public on Climate Change: Up-to-and-Beyond UN IPPC 2013-14’ symposium in Liverpool (https://news.liv.ac.uk/2012/04/12/the-media-and-climate-change/). And at the beginning of year the MeCCSA conference saw CCES …Continue Reading
Date: Thursday 12 April 2013 Location: Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester Contact person for expressions of interest: Dr Nelya Koteyko (nk158@leicester.ac.uk) The new communicative landscape shaped by the Internet and mobile technologies has had profound implications for communication research on climate change and environment. It has opened up new areas for studying …Continue Reading
This letter was originally published in the Financial Times, 1 November 2012. Several signatories are members of the MeCCSA Policy Network. URL: https://j.mp/Wb7VG5 We are free speech advocates and senior educators of law and journalism students in British universities and we write to express our opposition to proposals for a new self-regulatory body for the …Continue Reading
Irene Rose Liverpool John Moores Univ. MeCCSA DSN was pleased to co-organise this year’s Liverpool Comedy Trust Annual Comedy Festival Debate hosted by Liverpool John Moores University. This free public event was well attended and drew delegates from across the length and breadth of the country. Contributors included Paul Betney (standup comedian), Laurence Clark (actor …Continue Reading
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