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PhD Defence: Stephanie de Smale – Utrecht University
/in PhD Alumni, RMeS News /by ChantalOn 27 September Stephanie de Smale defended her PhD thesis Ludic Memory Networks: Following Translations and Circulations of War Memory in Digital Popular Culture in the University Hall.
PhD Defence Lianne Toussaint (Radboud University Nijmegen)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOn September 6, 2018 at 14:30, Lianne Toussaint will defend her doctoral thesis, Wearing Technology, When Fashion and Technology Entwine.
PhD Defence Yu Sun
/0 Comments/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOn July 12, 2018 at 11:00,Yu Sun will defend her doctoral thesis, Engaging in politics: everyday political talk in online China.
PhD Defence Joëlle Swart (University of Groningen)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOn June 28, 2018 at 16:15, Joëlle Swart will defend her doctoral thesis, Haven’t you heard? Connecting through news and journalism in everyday life.
Arjen Nauta | Governing Through Reality TV in China: The Case of Hunan Satellite TV
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalArjen Nauta | University of Amsterdam
My research seeks to address the surge of reality television in China in the 21st century within strategies of governance. First, I analyze the political economy in which television makers operate. Then, based on one year of ethnographic research at HSTV in Changsha, I show how political and economic factors influence the daily labor of production.
PhD defence Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOn Monday April 9, 2018 at 16:15, Tom Slootweg will defend his doctoral thesis Resistance, Disruption and Belonging. The thesis returns to the period before the explosive rise of YouTube. The slow introduction of video as a consumer media technology, from the mid-1960s onwards, set in motion a long phase during which expectations were rife with video’s potential for everyday users in terms of participation and media democratisation.
Stefan Baack: Knowing what counts. How journalists and civic technologists use and imagine data
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalStefan Baack | University of Groningen
My dissertation examines how the growing reliance on data and the steady quantification of social life affects democratic publics. It studies the practices and social imaginaries of two actors who facilitate the use quantitative techniques in key areas of public space: data activists and data journalists. As data activists, I describe activists in the open data and civic tech movements who develop projects that aim to make engagement with authorities easier for citizens, e.g. parliamentary monitoring websites that make parliamentary speeches more accessible.
Leonieke Bolderman: Musical Topophilia. A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Music Tourism
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalLeonieke Bolderman | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Music tourism is an increasingly popular practice. Why would people be interested in visiting places related to music? How can something abstract like music lead to tourism, and what makes this activity meaningful to those concerned? In this dissertation these questions are answered by analyzing music tourism as a form of ‘musical topophilia’: creating, developing and celebrating an affective attachment to place through and with music
Stephanie de Smale: Postwar representation and remembrance in media-based collectivities
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalStephanie de Smale | Utrecht University
How is wartime suffering is imagined and remembered in translocal digital culture communities? The empirical research conducted offers an in-depth case study analysis of everyday practices of remembrance within digital culture, read in relation to peacebuilding and postwar reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
PhD Defence: Rik Smit (University of Groningen)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalImage: Sylvia van Schie, illustrator
On Thursday 29 March 2018, Rik Smit will defend his PhD Thesis Platforms of Memory: Social Media and Digital Memory Work.
PhD Defence: Tim van der Heijden (Maastricht University)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOn Thursday 18 January 2018 at 16:00h, Tim van der Heijden will defend his PhD dissertation Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895–2005. This research project analyses how throughout the twentieth century various generations have recorded their family memories on film, video and digital media.
PhD Defence: Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalWhen? Wednesday 10 May 2017, 14:00 Where? Agnietenkapel at the University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, Amsterdam. The doors close at the exact time and latecomers will not be able to enter. On Wednesday 10 May 2017, Christian Gosvig Olesen will defend his PhD Dissertation Film History in the Making – Film Historiography, Digitised Archives […]
PhD Defence: Birte Schohaus (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
/in PhD Alumni /by Chantal14 maart 2017
Redacties talkshows vermijden risico’s. Format tv-show bepalend voor keuze politieke gasten
Niet de presentator, niet de opvattingen van de redactie maar het ‘format’ bepaalt volkomen welke politici worden uitgenodigd in de zes belangrijkste Nederlandse talkshows. Zij worden, naar gelang de aard van het programma, geselecteerd op politieke relevantie en ‘talkability’. Redacties zijn daarbij huiverig om te experimenteren met onbekende hoofdgasten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Birte Schohaus, die op 14 maart promoveert aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Ze weerlegt in het onderzoek ook de kritiek dat talkshows de ‘gewone man’ te weinig aan het woord zouden laten.
PhD Defence: Alex Gekker (Utrecht University)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalUniquitous Cartography: Casual Power in Digital Maps When? 9 December 2016, 14:30 Where? Senaat hall of the Academiegebouw (academy building) of Utrecht University, at Domplein 29, 3512 JE Utrecht. The doors close at the exact time and latecomers will not be able to enter. On 9 December 2016, Alex Gekker will defend his PhD Thesis […]
PhD Defense: Enis Dinç (University of Amsterdam)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalPerforming Modernity: Atatürk on Film (1919-1938) Supervisors: Frank van Vree, M. Şükrü Hanioğlu and Esther Peeren Date: 13 December 2016, 12:00 hrs, Agnietenkapel When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Turkish Republic, took the lead in the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919, he was far from being a household name. Nevertheless, […]
Promotie: Merel Borger (Vrije Universiteit)
/in PhD Alumni /by Chantal18 oktober 2016
De komst van digitale technologie heeft de verwachting opgeroepen dat iedereen voortaan zou kunnen deelnemen aan het maken en verspreiden van nieuws. Op basis van literatuurstudie, kwalitatieve analyse van diepte-interviews en inhoudsanalyse van nieuwsberichten onderzocht Merel Borger hoe participatieve ontwikkelingen in de journalistiek invloed hebben op conventionele opvattingen over wat telt als journalistiek en wie telt als journalist.
PhD Defence: Niels Kerssens
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalCultures of Use – 1970s/1980s: An Archaeology of Computing’s Integration with Everyday Life Date: Wednesday 25 May 2016, at 10am sharp. Venue: Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam (address: Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 Promotors: Prof. dr José van Dijck & Dr Bernard Rieder You are cordially invited to attend the public defence, which will take place in the Agnietenkapel, […]
Sanne Rotmeijer: Media in the Dutch Antilles: Identities, Politics, and Change
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalSanne Rotmeijer, MA | Leiden University | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) | Supervisors: Prof. dr. G.J. (Gert) Oostindie & Prof. dr. J. C. (Jaap) de Jong | December 2014 – December 2018 | rotmeijer[at]KITLV[dot]nl This research focuses on how traditional and new ‘Dutch’ Caribbean media reflect and shape discourses of […]
Tim Groot Kormelink: The New News Consumer: Storytelling
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalTim Groot Kormelink | VU University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Journalism | Supervisor: Irene Costera Meijer | December 2013 – December 2018 | t[dot]grootkormelink[at]vu[dot]nl My research is part of the project The New News Consumer: User-Based Innovation to Meet Paradigmatic Change in News Use and Media Habits. The central question that drives this project is: how does […]
Birte Schohaus: Politicians in talk shows – Behind the scenes
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalBirte Schohaus | University of Groningen, department of media and journalism studies |1 October 2012 end 30 September 2016 | Supervisors: professor Marcel Broersma & professor Huub Wijfjes | b[dot]schohaus[at]rug[dot]nl
Joëlle Swart: The New News Consumer: Public Connection in the Digital Age
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalJoëlle Swart | University of Groningen, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies | prof. dr. Marcel Broersma & dr. Chris Peters | 1 December 2013 until 1 December 2017 | j.a.c.swart@rug.nl
Yu Sun: Public Deliberation in Chinese Online Sphere
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalYu Sun, University of Groningen, Department of Journalism and media studies | Supervisor: Professor Marcel Broersma | 1 September, 2013 – 31 August, 2017 | y[dot]sun[at]rug[dot]nl
Steven Willemsen: On the Cognitive and Hermeneutic Dynamics of Complex Film Narratives
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalSteven Willemsen | University of Groningen, Dept. Arts, Culture & Media | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Liesbeth Korthals Altes, Dr. Miklos Kiss | Project date: 2014-2018 | s[dot]p[dot]m[dot]willemsen[at]rug[dot]nl
Joyce Neys: Empowered Citizens: How New Media Facilitate Civic Engagement
/0 Comments/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalJoyce Neys | Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Media & Communication | Promotor: Jeroen Jansz | Sept 2010 – Sept 2015 | neys[at]eshcc[dot]eur[dot]nl This research project aims to investigate how citizens use different forms of new media as a political tool. In particular, I am interested in citizens who […]
Niels Kerssens: Politics of Use: Computer Application as Culture-Technical Configuration (2012-2015)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSNiels Kerssens | Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, Department of Mediastudies | José van Dijck (Promotor) and Bernhard Rieder (Co-Promotor) | January 2012 – December 2015 | N.Kerssens[at]uva[dot]nl In the midst of new media usage being dominated by ‘apps’, this project examines the historico-political dimensions of personal computer application, or, in more general terms, […]
Simone Driessen: Localized Music Histories and their Significance to Audiences (2012-2016)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSSimone Driessen | research: part of the international, HERA funded research project Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPiD) Erasmus University Rotterdam, department of Media & Communication (from the Erasmus School of History, Culture & Communication) | supervisor: Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen and dr. Jiska Engelbert | September 2011- September 2016 | driessen[at]eshcc[dot]eur[dot]nl My dissertation […]
Christian Olesen: Film History in the Making: Digital Archives and Film Historiography – Historical and Future Perspectives (2012-2016)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSChristian Olesen: Film History in the Making: Digital Archives and Film Historiography – Historical and Future Perspectives September 2012 – September 2016 University of Amsterdam, Department of Mediastudies Supervised by: Prof.dr. Julia Noordegraaf http://filmhistoryinthemaking.com/ http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/staff-members/content/o/l/c.g.olesen/c.g.olesen.html My project investigates the implications which digitization in film archives bears upon film historical research in primarily academic settings. Never […]
Ari Purnama: The Historical Poetics of Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas: Film Styles, Modes of Production, and Social Conditions (1997-present) (2012-2016)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSAri Purnama: The Historical Poetics of Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas: Film Styles, Modes of Production, and Social Conditions (1997-present) University of Groningen, Department of Arts, Culture and Media— This research is a part of The Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) Prof. Dr. E.J. (Liesbeth) Korthals Altes Dr. Julian Hanich September, 2012—August, 2016 […]
Alex Gekker: Digital maps as objects of playful-casual power (2012-2016)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSAlex Gekker: Digital maps as objects of playful-casual power PhD candidate and researcher in “Charting the Digital” European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC Grant agreement n° 283464. Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) – Media and Performance Studies Promoters and Supervisors: Prof. Joost Raessens (Utrecht University), Dr. Sybille Lammes (University of Warwick) and Chris Perkins (University […]
Bas den Herder: A Question of Autonomy – The interview in France, England and the Netherlands, 1880 – 2005 (2008-2014)
/in PhD Alumni /by RMeSBas den Herder – A Question of Autonomy – The interview in France, England and the Netherlands, 1880 – 2005 Project: Reporting at the boundaries of the public sphere. Form, Style and Strategy of European Journalism, 1880-2005 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Department of Journalism prof. Marcel Broersma 2008 – 2014 (expected) basdenherder[at]gmail[dot]com Journalistic Autonomy and the Political Interview […]