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.
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Are you passionate about sharing original research with new generations of students and scholars you admire? Have you been sitting on an idea for organizing a workshop in your area of expertise, but you don’t have the funds to do so? RMeS has got your back!
31 March – 6 April 2025 | KNIR – Rome
In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, RMeS will organize a course on Media in the (Eternal) City.
Media are ambiguous in cities, whether we think of billboards and screens in public spaces, people navigating through cities via maps on their smartphones, cinemas and newspaper buildings, surveillance cameras observing crowds, or tourists taking selfies. Cities as material surroundings and social structures are shaped by media and mediated experiences, while media also shape and structure the lives of people in cities, whether they are inhabitants or visitors. In this course we will therefore explore how media, mediated social life and the city – with Rome as a case – constitute one another.
Time: 27 November 2024, 10:30-12:00 Location: Rotterdam University, Campus Woudestijn, Education Center, Senate Hall Livestreaming practices are increasingly influencing Chinese people’s everyday lives in social, cultural, and economic terms. The showroom livestreaming, known as xiuchang zhibo, features various content entertainment from singing and dancing to mundane everyday life activities such as chatting and eating. Whereas e-commerce livestreaming […]
Time: 27 November 2024, 14:00 – 17:30 Location: Rotterdam University, Campus Woudestein, Langeveld Building, Room 1-12 On Wednesday 27 November, ESHCC will host the symposium “Digital culture in the platform era: Future directions of social media research”. Instagram, TikTok, as well as many other rising social media platforms have become the fields for digital culture to flourish. […]
Join us on December 13th 15.00-17.30 as we kick off the first of many RMeS Media Excursions with a trip to the National Video Game Museum in Zoetermeer! We are introducing the Media Excursions as opportunities for students to engage with media in the cultural sector and society at large. We hope to present an excursion once every two/three months.
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 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.