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.
15 April 2025 | University of Groningen
Based on almost a decade and a half of qualitatively studying online participation, particularly on social media but also in semi-private/semi-publics meso news-spaces, I will share a practical workshop on how to do qualitative content analysis on social media.
We are very proud to announce that Nathalie Fridzema, PhD at University of Groningen, will receive the RMeS Workshop Grant 2024-2025 for her proposal: Working with web archives in Media Studies: An introduction to theory, methods, and practices.
25 April 2025 | University of Amsterdam
Vibes are everywhere on social media; together with “moods” and “energies”, vibes offer a new way of navigating platforms based on personalized-yet-shared ‘aesthetic feelings’ meticulously curated for affective stickiness by machine learning algorithms whose vectors are equally intangible-yet-catchy. We have arguably entered the age of mood-regulating media.
24 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam: Vox-Pop
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 in *doing* media research? At a time when the need for critical media research is so great, this event is an attempt to turn our critical eye inward: what are the problems we need to solve in order to better carry out our core mission? A shape-shifting media landscape, questions of ethics and data access, unresolved frictions in interdisciplinary research, work pressure and imposter syndrome: this, too, is just a sampling of problems that media researchers face. Crucially, these same problems face researchers of all levels, from undergraduates learning the ropes to seasoned veterans and leaders in the field.
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 […]
How are media keeping us busy these days?
In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.
The RMeS PhD council welcomes RMa students, PhD students and post docs in media studies to join the RMeS Grad Students Discord server!
RMeS RMa Course: Studying digital activism: Discourses, practices, and politics
/in RMeS News /by ChantalApril – 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.