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.
4 November 2024 | University of Amsterdam
This workshop aims to encourage researchers to consider cultural workers’ – or even individual citizens’ – daily production practices and experiences on digital platforms by combining theories of platform(ised) creative labour and participatory surveillance. The phenomenon of negotiating digital visibility is universal across countries yet contextualised in specific cultural and political conditions. By studying practices that traverse national boundaries and considering how comparable phenomena are manifest in diverging contexts, critical and decentralised analysis can be produced.
1 November 2024 | University of Groningen
Join us for a comprehensive, full-day in-person masterclass that delves into the growing significance of online interviewing as a research method. Tailored to the specific needs of participants, this masterclass will cover key topics such as comparing online and offline interviewing approaches, addressing ethical considerations unique to online research, and providing practical strategies for conducting effective online interviews.
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.
29 & 30 January 2025 | Maastricht University
Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Lauren Klein (Emory University)
The RMeS winter school offers PhD candidates the opportunity to present their current work, and receive feedback from their peers and senior scholars. Presentations can be on any topic students are working on and would like to get feedback on, ranging from chapter and article drafts to research proposals. Students will as much as possible be matched with reviewers that have expertise on their topic.
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!
RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2024-25
/in RMeS News /by Chantal29 & 30 January 2025 | Maastricht University
Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Lauren Klein (Emory University)
The RMeS winter school offers PhD candidates the opportunity to present their current work, and receive feedback from their peers and senior scholars. Presentations can be on any topic students are working on and would like to get feedback on, ranging from chapter and article drafts to research proposals. Students will as much as possible be matched with reviewers that have expertise on their topic.