As of 1 September 2020, Dr Nanna Verhoeff (Media and Culture Studies) will be appointed Professor of Screen Cultures and Society at the Faculty of Humanities. Screen Cultures and Society The chair of Screen Cultures and Society focuses on the wide diversity of screen technologies and practices, and their role within culture and society. This field is approached from a […]
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has dramatically transformed our everyday realities. Such significant changes inevitably affected our approaches in academic work. With (even greater) uncertainty about the future and merging of office/home environments, finding focus can be rather challenging. We have reached out to our Confidential Counsellor and a qualified Meditation Teacher, Dr Bernadette Kester for some advice and useful tools in battling distractions.
“While being familiar with one-on-one video chat, I could only imagine what a virtual PhD defence would be like. After all, it turned out to be a memorable experience”. Dr. Min Xu defended her PhD titled “Getting close to the media world: An ethnographic analysis of everyday encounters with the film industry in contemporary China”. What makes her defence especially unique is the fact that it was done entirely online. In this interview, Min shares her story with us.
On Thursday 9 April 2020, Min Xu defended her PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Getting Close to the Media World: An ethnographic analysis of everyday encounters with the film industry in contemporary China’.
Dr. Thomas Poell is benoemd tot hoogleraar Data, Culture & Institutions aan de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
In zijn onderzoek richt Thomas Poell zich op de maatschappelijke gevolgen van de opkomst van digitale platformen als Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, Airbnb en Uber. Hij publiceerde veelvuldig over sociale media en protest in Canada, Egypte, Tunesië, India en China. De laatste jaren deed hij onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van de platformsamenleving.
THIS WORKSHOP IS POSTPONED. Expected new date: Fall 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
As a PhD candidate you will be responsible for one of the three subprojects within the ERC-funded project “Platform Discourses: A Critical Humanities Approach to the Texts, Images, and Moving Images of Tech Companies”. This project studies how companies like Google, Facebook, and Airbnb increasingly position their for-profit online platforms as neutral spaces for social exchange, while addressing their users as “digital citizens”.
24-25 June 2020 | Maastricht University – online
This summer school will revolve around the twin pillars of Design Thinking and Maker Culture. A mixture of lectures, hands-on workshops, and Lightening Challenges will provide participants with the skills, theories, and methods to take a more creative, proactive, and empowered approach to research design, to meaning making in modalities beyond the textual, and in exploring what humanities students can bring to discussions to solve the grand challenges of our time.
22 April 2020 | Utrecht University
In this talk Hepp will focus on one particular aspect of deep mediatization, namely that of its “making”. Normally, the progressive saturation of society with digital media and infrastructures is associated with the engagement of large corporations like Apple, Google or Microsoft. But we cannot understand the “making” of deep mediatization without also considering pioneer communities such as the Whole Earth Network, the Quantified Self or the Maker movements. In this talk Hepp will focus on these, their influence and their life cycles.
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Arts and Culture, opens the position of Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Design History and Theory as of 1 September 2020.
RMeS Summer School 2020: Design Thinking and Making for the Humanities
/in RMeS News /by Chantal24-25 June 2020 | Maastricht University – online
This summer school will revolve around the twin pillars of Design Thinking and Maker Culture. A mixture of lectures, hands-on workshops, and Lightening Challenges will provide participants with the skills, theories, and methods to take a more creative, proactive, and empowered approach to research design, to meaning making in modalities beyond the textual, and in exploring what humanities students can bring to discussions to solve the grand challenges of our time.