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.
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.
3 December 2024 – University of Amsterdam
Digital identity systems convert individuals into digital data, which are machine-readable and amenable to administration. Associated to access to public services, social protection and humanitarian schemes, digital identity systems are increasingly linked to the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 16:9: “provide legal identity for all including free birth registrations by 2030”. Such a link is based on the view of digital identity as a force for good, capable to include all those entitled to a given service, programme or humanitarian scheme, and at the same time exclude all the non-entitled.
9 December 2024 | Utrecht University
This session of the 2024 Digital Ethnography Research Series at Utrecht University brings together two world-leading researchers using ethnographic approaches to study AI, Futures, and Work. Their methods and projects are diverse, including studying AI industries using ethnographic sensibilities, analyzing how the construction of AI is being rhetorically framed, bringing attention to global south perspectives, exploring the sociotechnical interplay in development of AI, researching how language models and deployment frameworks can be more inclusive, and understanding how AI is being localized in specific companies.
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.