Phil Ramsey Ulster University So far in 2018 the MeCCSA Policy Network has supported two events. First, the Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking It, Breaking It, Re-Making It – What’s wrong with our media and how to fix it took place at Birkbeck, University of London on 17 March 2018. The event was a national …Continue Reading
Dominique Webb & Mikey Murray University of Lincoln The annual Journal of Media Practice and Education and MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium took place at the University of Lincoln on June 15th 2018. This year’s theme was ‘Contexts for Film Practice’ and our aim was to explore the diversity and breadth of work taking place in …Continue Reading
Rinella Cere Sheffield Hallam University The first REaPN event of the year took place in June at East London University under the iniative of a new committee member of the network, Naida Redgrave and and the Vice-Chair Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, with many invited speakers coming from as further afield as Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The …Continue Reading
Canterbury Christ Church University 5-6 July 2018 Theme: Media, Communities and Cultures Following on from the successful MeCCSA 2016 conference, the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network now warmly invites you to attend its next annual conference, to be held at Canterbury Christ Church University on 5 and 6 July 2018. The conference will be based around the theme …Continue Reading
Tianyang Zhou University of Sussex ‘Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions’ was the 14th annual conference of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network and a big success! For the first time, it was hosted jointly by two leading institutions, LSE and Goldsmiths. The conference was organized by an excellent organizing team that comprised of PhD candidates from …Continue Reading
Milly Williamson Goldsmiths, University of London The MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network (WMSN), is an active network that hosts and funds events that relate to the issues of concern to women who teach and research in the broad area of Media Studies. Please do get involved – we always welcome new members. In 2016/17 WMSN …Continue Reading
Rosalind Brunt Sheffield Hallam University In September the Network ran its third ‘Shared Solidarities’ event, hosted at Sheffield Hallam University. It was co-sponsored by the Environmental Network with the theme of Framing Catastrophe. The event’s aim was to consider two potentially catastrophic events, nuclear war and climate change – asking why they were not absolutely central …Continue Reading
Helen Gubbins University of Sheffield Josephine Coleman Birkbeck College, University of London 2017 was a very busy year for the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network, hosting no fewer than three separate radio-related events, starting a weekly Radio Studies reading group, maintaining an energetic social media campaign, and sowing seeds for events for the next two years. …Continue Reading
Joanne Callaghan University of Sussex The BFI, Learning on Screen, Kingston School of Art and MeCCSA Practice Network recently supported a free workshop at BFI Southbank in London, exploring the creative reuse of archive material in higher education, in a morning session preceding the annual BFI Student Open Day. The event launched a new scheme …Continue Reading
Rinella Cere Sheffield Hallam University At the end of November we ran our main network event on the topic of the ‘encounter’ between Postcolonial Studies with Media Studies. It was hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London’s Centre for Feminist Research and Race Critical Studies Network. Postcoloniality is one of the key areas of our network …Continue Reading
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