Danica Petrović | Place and Identity in Journalism in Former Yugoslavia

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This project aims to examine the intersection between journalistic practices and the space where the news is being written by applying methodologies of spatial theories. By doing so, it will trace the evolution and transformation of these spaces and relate them to micro-narratives collected from interviews with former Yugoslav journalists. Their valuable insights will be situated into a broader context of historical development and interrepublic relations that will serve to track the dissemination of the news within the socialist state.

Agne Bore | “Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Festival-Owned Digital Platforms”

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Music festivals no longer start at the gate or end with the last act. Instead, they begin months before, unfold dynamically during, and linger long after as organizers and audiences leverage technologies to shape collective memories, experiences and anticipations (Hammelburg, 2020; Hill et al., 2022). Festivals are inherently spatialized, taking place in a designated space within which participants are separated from non-participating bodies for a set  period of time (Woodward & Swartjes, 2024).

Daan Stokvis | PhD in HAICu: Investigative journalism and interpretive “deep” reporting

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This PhD research is part of the HAICu project, a collaboration between AI and digital humanities researchers, journalists, and stakeholders in digital cultural heritage collections in the Netherlands. HAICu seeks to answer the following research question: ‘How can human-centered AI technology, along with its future institutional and individual users, provide new forms of reliable access and storytelling for the Netherlands' vast yet largely untapped multimodal cultural heritage collections?’

Yufei Guo | “Your Place is the Show” – A Multi-actor Analysis of Platformised Reality-TV-Induced Tourism in Wuzhen, China

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This project aims to explore screen tourism, the phenomenon of people traveling to places associated with audiovisual production. Most of the current knowledge on screen tourism is built on research conducted on film and TV series and mainly on Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon countries, but little is known about the dynamics between reality TV and tourism outside of the western context. This project thus aims to contribute to this research gap by studying reality-TV-induced tourism in China, specifically focusing on Wuzhen, a historic Chinese watertown in Zhejiang province re-developed for modern tourism, as a case study. 

Jonathan Spellerberg | Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Digital Media: From knowledge preservation to postdigital Indigenous knowledge futures

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For Inuit in Nunavut (today part of Canada), it is clear that learning about and engaging with Inuit knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit; IQ) has tremendous positive effects for wellbeing, economic resilience, and relationships within the community. For this reason, in the last decades, many digitization initiatives focusing on material culture, place names, and recordings of stories and oral histories have worked successfully to make Inuit knowledge more accessible to communities.

RMeS Podcast

In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.

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The RMeS PhD Council invites RMa, PhD students, and postdocs in Media Studies to join the RMeS Grad Students Discord!