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25 October 2024 | Radboud University Nijmegen
During the symposium “From Hinterland to Europapa: Identity and Placemaking in Dutch Popular Music Culture,” we will explore the intricate interplay between music, identity, and place in the Netherlands. This symposium will delve into various facets of how popular music shapes and reflects cultural identities, emphasizing the contrasts and connections between rural and urban contexts.

In the fifth episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Maud Rebergen (RUG) and her colleague Nathalie Fridzema (RUG) talk about their history with Habbo Hotel, an online game from their youth which has recently been making a big comeback. They also discuss their media months, which (at time of recording in July) […]

November – December 2025 | Utrecht University
In this ‘Platformisation’ course, we will explore the transformational impact of platformisation on different public and private domains of our digital society. Each afternoon will be dedicated to the analysis, research and discussion of the platformisation of one or two of these domains, based on the expertise of various guest speakers.

November-December 2024 | Leiden University
In this course students examine media theoretical dimensions of practices at the intersection of art, science and technology. Materiality has always been of particular importance for the arts as its qualities contribute actively to perception and hence the ‘work’ of art. Today’s technologies make possible activation of latent capacities of matter in numerous novel and thought-provoking ways. Soft robotics, genetic modification, bio-based materials, and ‘internet of forest’ are among the many examples of hybridity between living and nonliving matter and the realm of information.

How are media keeping us busy these days? In this podcast series the RMeS (Research School for Media Studies) PhD council has monthly conversations amongst its members of how media affect their day-to-day lives as media scholars. This can include interviews with researchers in the field, advice for aspiring PhDs, and thoughts on pressing issues […]