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.
15 May 2025 | Utrecht University
In this masterclass, we will critically analyze immersive technologies through, amongst others, media, postcolonial, and gender studies lenses, reflecting on their ethical implications. We will also explore the potential of decolonial storytelling to enable new ways of engaging with social realities (Rose 2018). Prof. Rose will explore the challenges and potentials for social critique and new forms of knowledge as documentary makers engage with immersive Virtual Reality.
18 & 19 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam
You are cordially invited to take part in a co-design session for the project “In-Sight: Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance”. The project started in October 2020 and will run until March 2025. It is funded by the Dutch Research Council and it investigates standard-making in relation to democratic values and practices. It asks how the public sphere is governed today through the standardization of the digital and how to support societal values in the creation of standards.
University of Amsterdam | Application closes on 23-3-2025
Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? ASCA currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Starting Grant project Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation, led by principal investigator Dr. Erik Borra, Dr. Alex Gekker and Dr. Bernhard Rieder. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research AIHR.
Université libre de Bruxelles | Application deadline: 24 March 2024
This project focuses on the 41 years of news dispatches from the Belgian press agency Belga, which are archived at KBR—over 3 million pages produced since 1954. It also involves contributing to their preservation as historical archives. The project has a dual objective: first, to analyse Belga’s news production to enrich the history of Belgian journalism, and second, to contribute to the preservation and public (and academic) accessibility of this major cultural heritage. The Belga Dispatch Archive is an invaluable resource for the history of journalism and for Belgian history more broadly.
16 April 2025 | Radboud University Nijmegen
The dissertation maps how representatives of Silicon Valley propagate this myth and how it affects their position in public debates. I approach platform companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) and prominent tech figures (e.g. Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk) as cultural producers and political actors. To understand how these actors engage in practices of mythmaking, I use methods of discursive and historical analysis to examine the narratives, green rhetoric, visual identity and underlying ideology of tech-on-climate discourse.
How are media keeping us busy these days?
In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.
The RMeS PhD council welcomes RMa students, PhD students and post docs in media studies to join the RMeS Grad Students Discord server!
Call for Papers: Netherlands Media Studies Conference
/in RMeS News /by ChantalSave the date: 23 October 2025 | Utrecht
RMeS is inviting submissions to the first Netherlands Media Studies Conference. This one-day event will take place in Utrecht on Thursday 23 October 2025. It provides a space for media studies scholars and students to discuss their work and make connections with peers.