Netherlands Research School for Media Studies

The Netherlands Research school for Media Studies (RMeS) is a national network of academic experts in media research. It is organized to advance knowledge on media and to educate young scholars, both PhD candidates and promising RMa students, in classical and cutting edge theories and methodologies in media studies, and to offer them an opportunity to start building a network.

RMeS News & Events

RMeS RMa Course: Studying digital activism: Discourses, practices, and politics

April – May 2025 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
This course examines the complex layers of digital activism, with a particular focus on Instagram. As digital technologies become integral to mobilizing for collective action and advocating for political transformation, it is crucial that we critically investigate the impacts of these phenomena upon contemporary forms of political participation and civic engagement.

Invitation: The Problem with Doing Media Research

24 March 2025 | 15:00 – 18:30 | Vox-Pop Amsterdam Featuring Anne Helmond, Asli Özgen-Havekotte, Balázs Borros, Mark Deuze, Misha Kavka and Michael Stevenson There is no shortage of problems facing media researchers today, from fake news and the impact of AI to economic constraints on creative production; but what about the problems we face […]

Vacancy: PhD in Journalism, Generative AI, and Critical Digital Literacy

Application deadline: 3 April 2025, 23:59PM Location: University of Groningen Job description The Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) at the Faculty of Arts and the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Science and Engineering are looking for a PhD student for the project “Assessing the reliability of news […]

NOG & RMeS Masterclass & Public Lecture with Prof. Mandy Rose: Virtual Reality and the Immersive Turn

15 May 2025 | Utrecht University
In this masterclass, we will critically analyze immersive technologies through, amongst others, media, postcolonial, and gender studies lenses, reflecting on their ethical implications. We will also explore the potential of decolonial storytelling to enable new ways of engaging with social realities (Rose 2018). Prof. Rose will explore the challenges and potentials for social critique and new forms of knowledge as documentary makers engage with immersive Virtual Reality.

IN-SIGHT presents: Standards in the making

18 & 19 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam
You are cordially invited to take part in a co-design session for the project “In-Sight: Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance”. The project started in October 2020 and will run until March 2025. It is funded by the Dutch Research Council and it investigates standard-making in relation to democratic values and practices. It asks how the public sphere is governed today through the standardization of the digital and how to support societal values in the creation of standards.

Vacancy: PhD on Interfaces of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation

University of Amsterdam | Application closes on 23-3-2025
Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? ASCA currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Starting Grant project Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation, led by principal investigator Dr. Erik Borra, Dr. Alex Gekker and Dr. Bernhard Rieder. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research AIHR.