Guest Editor: Alfred L. Martin, Jr. University of Colorado Denver Alfred.Martin@UCDenver.edu DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 PROPOSED PUBLICATION DATE: Fall/Winter 2018 Production studies has often failed to include sexuality and...
Read MoreCALL FOR PAPERS – InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT The purpose of this special issue of InMedia is to further the understanding of the documentary by linking it to the notion of...
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I don’t have much time for WikiLeaks or its narcissist-in-chief. Anyone surprised by their...
Read MoreHosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June 2017 Confirmed Keynotes: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim, Bournemouth University John Mateer, University of York Prof Bambo...
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Contemporary media culture seems to suggest that it is unacceptable for a woman to look her age if...
Read MoreConfirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth...
Read MoreThe Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD The VLV is delighted that Lord Puttnam CBE has agreed to deliver the Jocelyn Hay Voice of the Listener & Viewer Lecture 2017. “The Jocelyn...
Read MoreThe third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29th, 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported...
Read MoreNorthern Charter 5th Floor, Commercial Union House 39 Pilgrim Street Newcastle NE1 6QE Thursday 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm)...
Read MoreIn 1978 Susie Orbach declared fat a feminist issue. This slim volume of writing put forward a radical new understanding of feminine embodiment and the gendered psychology of eating. Taking place almost four decades later, this...
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I blogged last year for CSTonline about how shared conceptions of childhood facilitated links...
Read MoreCentre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5th International Conference CUNY School of Journalism New York City, USA August 31-September 1, 2017 Conference Keynote Speaker: Andrew Mendelson Associate Dean & Professor,...
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Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works...
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Although Netflix’s approach to genre is different to those predominant in screen studies, the...
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There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that...
Read MoreThis one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media. The advent of digital media has...
Read More2017 UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference The television industry in China has experienced a process of marketisation, diversification, de-ideologisation, and entertainmentisation ever since media...
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Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch...
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A while ago, Martin Barker invited scholars to discuss the potential for the re-incorporation of...
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I’m back living in the US, courtesy of five months researching with the Latin American studies...
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Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research...
Read MoreQUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof. Jack Halberstam...
Read MoreOrganized by R+D Project “Relationship dynamics in the face of social change: contexts, content, producers, audiences, and produsers in the news programmes of TVE and YLE”. Main Researchers: M. Á. Vázquez Medel and M. Lamuedra...
Read MoreUniversity of Winchester Faculty of Arts Research Seminar. All welcome. Wed 15 Feb, 4.30pm, FWB204 How Free is the BBC? Dr Tom Mills (Aston University) Is the BBC an authentically independent and impartial broadcaster? Or is it...
Read MoreFilm and Screen Studies, School of Media, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017 Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary 2 day conference at the University of Brighton In response to the news of the British government’s...
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