8 juni 2023 | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Professor Anneke Smelik Hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit / Faculteit der Letteren met de leeropdracht Visuele Cultuur houdt op donderdag 8 juni 2023 om 16.00 uur precies haar afscheidscollege, getiteld: Meditatie over mode
10 May 2023 | University of Groningen
In this seminar, Nick Couldry will reflect on the global space of social communications and interaction that has been constructed over the past three decades through a commercialized internet and the emergence of digital platforms whose business model depends on the extraction of data from their users and the shaping of user behaviour in order to optimize user behaviour that will generate advertising value.
19, 20 & 21 June 2023 | Leiden University
Imagophilia speaks to our ineluctable and incessant love for images: a baffling fondness for storing them, recalling them, or at times monumentalizing them in our mind. Under the overarching umbrella of imagophilia, in this Summer School we want to explore the possessive and persuasive power of images, whether affectively localized in places or politically dispersed across spaces. Do we simply like images or are we haunted by their seductive and holding power? Are we, as W.J.T Mitchell posits, under their spell whether we admit it or not? Overarching topics like cinephilia, photophilia, logophilia, idolatry and bédéphilia, the theme of imagophilia addresses our fervid yet inexplicable endearment for images, whether they are verbal or mental, still or moving, metaphoric or metonymic, analogue or digital.
Deadline 10 maart 2023
De nieuwe leerstoelhouder zal actief zijn op het gebied van onderwijs, onderzoek, maatschappelijke valorisatie en bestuur. De bachelor track Media & Journalistiek van de VU is de enige universitaire Nederlandstalige bacheloropleiding die zich expliciet op journalistiek richt. De master opleiding aan de VU onderscheidt zich door de nadruk op het onderzoeken (en oplossen) van fundamentele vraagstukken uit de journalistieke praktijk. De focus richt zich daarbij op (blokkades voor) innovatie, complexe vraagstukken omtrent AI, desinformatie en misinformatie en op de samenhang tussen veranderend informatiegebruik en nieuwe formats, platforms en hun journalistieke impact.
13-17 April 2023 | Royal Dutch Institute (KNIR) in Rome – Italy
In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, RMeS will organize a five day course on Media in the (eternal) City. The course consists of two (online) preparatory meetings in the Netherlands and a five day course in Rome. The participants will discuss literature and do a group research project in Rome.
Bartek Zerebecki (EUR) interviews Julia Kneer, an associate professor at the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. As a scholar, Dr. Kneer researchers the effects of gaming on violence but she also boasts rich experience in mentoring younger scholars.
April 3-4, 2023 | University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2023
This conference considers citizens’ everyday experiences of digital in- and exclusion. It focuses on the practices and tactics they employ in everyday life. Governments, employers, schools and other institutions increasingly expect people to participate digitally; yet, even in digitally advanced countries where internet access is almost ubiquitous, large groups of citizens lack basic digital literacies. This conference focuses on the practices and tactics through which citizens deal with the increasing digitalization of their everyday life. Going beyond who is left behind or what skills or knowledge are lacking, it explicitly takes a user-centric approach to understand the impact of digital in-and exclusion from the perspective of citizens themselves.
April – May 2023 | University of Amsterdam
In the past few years, disinformation has become firmly established as a fundamental concern for digital media studies research. In the process a wide range of perspectives and theories have emerged, including the return to prominence of the ‘media effects’ tradition. This course will situate these developments in the field of ‘disinformation studies’, which includes such concepts as fake news, conspiracy theory and deplatforming.
May-June 2023 | Utrecht University
In this seminar we will discuss ways to expand conventional ways of doing theory in, for and with cities and urban contexts. The growing catalog of creative methods for various disciplinary and interdisciplinary urban inquiries demonstrates a wide array of research techniques ranging from data walking to performative mapping or critical making, from experimental ethnography and co-creation to dramaturgical or interface analysis, and curatorial or action-based research to uncover and engage alternative ways of data collection, production, and analysis. Such creative urban methods are embodied and explorative, as well as experimental and interventionist. They share a phenomenological emphasis on embodied experiences of the (citizen/academic) researcher.
Friday 27 January | Tilburg University
Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher. Her work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media. These artifacts can offer precious insights into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardisation and resolution setting. As a compendium to this research, she published the Glitch Moment/um (inc, 2011), a little book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts.
RMeS RMa Course | Disinformation and Media: Cultures, Infrastructures, and Regulation
/in RMeS News /by ChantalApril – May 2023 | University of Amsterdam
In the past few years, disinformation has become firmly established as a fundamental concern for digital media studies research. In the process a wide range of perspectives and theories have emerged, including the return to prominence of the ‘media effects’ tradition. This course will situate these developments in the field of ‘disinformation studies’, which includes such concepts as fake news, conspiracy theory and deplatforming.