Recipient of the RMeS PhD Workshop Grant: Dr Rik Spanjers
We are very proud to announce that Dr Rik Spanjers (Utrecht University) will receive the RMeS Workshop Grant 2020-2021.
Book Launch: Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Wednesday, 25th November, 2020 | 3:00 pm GMT | 4:00pm CET (Online)
This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital media.
RMeS Winter School | RMa Day
27 January 2021 | VU University – online
This year we will organise a special RMa Day prior to our RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium. This will include the following programme components: 1) parallel sessions to present work to peers, 2) lectures by RMeS staff members, and 3) a workshop on Academic Careers Outside Academia.
Vacancy | The RMeS PhD Council needs you!
Deadline: November 25, 2020
The RMeS PhD Council is looking for a new member. The Council meets twice a year and organizes one network event each year. The Council represents the PhD community in the RMeS Advisory Board and gets to evaluate and discuss the direction of the Research School for Media Studies.
China CSC Scholarships at Maastricht University
Scholarships 2021 – 2025
In 2020, Maastricht University (UM) and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) signed a five-year Cooperative Agreement. Within this framework, UM annually provides 30 high quality research scholarships to qualified Master students from Chinese universities or research institutions.
Call for Papers: RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2020-21
28 & 29 January 2021 | VU University Amsterdam
This Winter School will feature different types of sessions: 1) sessions for presenting your work to peers 2) lectures by RMeS staff members and 3) a workshop on Academic Career outside Academia.
RMeS Workshop: Renegade audiences? Understanding and exploring the practices of toxic fans, vigilantes, trolls, and provocateurs
13 November 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam (online)
This workshop aims explores what happens if audiences’ affective investments are challenged. If we, in media studies, consider audiences as participatory communities, comparable to micro communities, this allows for a point of departure to discuss the more challenging or ‘anti-fannish’ behaviour of audiences.
[urban interfaces] seminar 2020-2021: Interfacing the (In)Formal City
March – April 2021 | Online
Urban culture is increasingly shaped by various media technologies. Screens, mobile media, sensing technologies, wireless networks, interactive installations and other urban interfaces become more and more enmeshed with the built environment. These technological systems and algorithmic platforms direct and mediate our behavior, data, and experiences in the city.
RMeS RMa Course: Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation and the Media
30 April, 7, 21, 28 May & 4 June 2021 | Utrecht University
In this course, we will approach this cluster of terms referring to mediatized misleading content from different angles, both historically and conceptually, as a methodological y engage with and maybe a field of practical, activist, political intervention. Each session will be dedicated to one or more aspects of the topic and introduced by scholars working on these issues. Students will be invited to develop a case into a research paper.
PhD Defence: Roel Lutkenhaus – Erasmus University Rotterdam
29 October 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
On Thursday 29 October 2020 at 15:30hr, Roel Lutkenhaus will defend his PhD dissertation.
In 1992, a scene from the TV show Medisch Centrum West—a popular Dutch medical drama— sparked conversations in Dutch living rooms about organ donation. On screen, a doctor had just informed a couple about their son, who had been admitted to the ICU after a car accident. The parents are torn between emotions as the doctor brings up the inevitable: “I am sorry. I know you don’t want to hear this, but Bart’s heart could save the life of another child.”
Call for Papers: RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2020-21
/in RMeS News /by Chantal28 & 29 January 2021 | VU University Amsterdam
This Winter School will feature different types of sessions: 1) sessions for presenting your work to peers 2) lectures by RMeS staff members and 3) a workshop on Academic Career outside Academia.