Dear MeCCSA member, As the national subject association, we are very concerned to hear from members about how the cuts/fees/privatisation regime is now impacting on your departments, institutions and yourselves as individual academic/academic-related staff. Our subject area seems particularly under threat (the October UCAS figures suggested a 40% drop in applications at that point), so …Continue Reading
Three-D, issue 17 (PDF, 1.5 Mb) – Latest In this issue: 1 HE White Paper and Media Reform (Einar Thorsen) Features 2 KIS my Ass(essment): HE White paper (Natalie Fenton) 4 The new assault on media studies (Anonymous) 5 Inside out: turning consumers back into students (Milly Williamson) 6 Regulating the press: a role for media scholars …Continue Reading
Einar Thorsen Bournemouth University In this issue of Three-D, we are for the first time publishing an anonymous article. It is a sad consequence of the belligerent attacks on higher education, and in this instance media studies, that people fear speaking out publicly. The article makes grim reading and is a stark warning to us …Continue Reading
Sue Thornham University of Sussex This time last year I began my report by referring to the ‘considerable uncertainty’ which marked the new academic year. Over the past year uncertainty has been replaced by the all too clear evidence of the threats we face: as academics, as academics within media, communication and cultural studies in …Continue Reading
John Mundy Discipline Lead for Media & Communications, Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy (HEA) exists to promote excellence in teaching and learning across the higher education sector. A recent restructuring of the HEA will see responsibility for encouraging teaching and learning excellence move from the former Subject Centres to newly-appointed academic Discipline Leads. Although …Continue Reading
Kay Richardson University of Liverpool Katy Parry University of Leeds 8 October 2011 The Leeds/Liverpool Political Culture symposium This one-day Symposium came about as the result of a collaboration between staff at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool, and was funded from a Liverpool AHRC award, ‘Media Genre and Political Culture’ (https://www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/Staff/politicalculture.htm). It was …Continue Reading
Julian Matthews University of Leicester 28 September 2011 University of Leicester On 28th September 2011, The University Leicester played host to ‘Thinking with Food: An Ideas Exchange’, the first annual research event of the Department of Media and Communication’s Cultural Production & Consumption Research Group. The event attracted participants from across the UK and EU, …Continue Reading
Anonymous Contributor These are difficult times for media studies. Whilst many colleagues are lucky enough to be in valued departments with sympathetic management, others are bearing the brunt of the economic cuts and changes in higher education. For those at risk the problems can be exacerbated by the nature of media studies itself and its …Continue Reading
Hackgate has shocked the world. But this latest media scandal is shocking not because of the awfulness that the practice of phone hacking is and the lack of humanity it has revealed but because it has exposed a system that is deeply flawed. This system of commercial news and journalistic practice is now under the …Continue Reading
Stephen Coleman University of Leeds Of three things we can be certain. Firstly, the Murdoch Empire has been severely destabilised by the public revelations of its criminal and unethical practices. Its capacity to wield pernicious influence upon public policy has been curtailed, certainly temporarily, possibly permanently. Secondly, the disgracing of News International has opened up …Continue Reading
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