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.
This dissertation investigates how children aged 8 to 12 develop digital literacies in ways that are personally meaningful to them. It highlights the role of different social contexts, such as the home, school and afterschool care, in these processes. Through longitudinal participant observations and interviews with children, parents and teachers, it explores how the use of digital media within different social contexts can contribute to the development of digital literacies.
Two-day workshopping conference for collaborative research experts and those who want to get into the game! Dates: April 7–8, 2025 Location: De Zalen van Zeven, Utrecht, The Netherlands Instructors: Dr. Karin van Es, Dr. Dennis Nguyen, Dr. Bart Kamphorst and Dr. Mirko Tobias Schäfer ECTS: 2 EC For: PhD candidates and enthusiastic research master students seeking to […]
27 February 2025 | Utrecht University
Peer review is one of the cornerstones of modern academia, an essential service that every academic will at some point be asked to perform. Most students will already be familiar with the practice of giving peer feedback, but how does ‘real’ academic peer review work? What is the purpose of a peer reviewer, and what is not? What happens to a review once it has been submitted? What makes a good peer review? And how do you avoid becoming the much-maligned ‘Reviewer #2’? In this workshop, we will address these questions and more.
In the seventh episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) and his colleague Roselinde Bon (HU) talk about the prominent political role that big tech companies seem to be taking currently in the United States. They discuss how the second term of Trump is setting the stage for more political […]
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
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In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.
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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.