Participating Universities
Explore the complete list of Participating Universities involved with the Netherlands Research School for Media Studies.
RMeS Mission
The Netherlands Research School for Media Studies (RMeS) is a national network of academic experts in media research.
RMeS Podcast
In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.
Join RMeS at Discord
The RMeS PhD Council invites RMa, PhD students, and postdocs in Media Studies to join the RMeS Grad Students Discord!
RMeS Summer School 2025: Media Transformations
/in RMeS News /by Chantal25, 26 & 27 June 2025 | VU University and Open University
In today’s rapidly evolving digital societies, media are not only ubiquitous but also increasingly reshaping the ways we communicate, create, and understand the world. From the rise of datafication and generative AI to an increased platformization and participatory news production, the media landscape is undergoing profound transformations. This does not only impact people’s lives, but also challenges us as researchers, who are forced to find ways to navigate a rapidly evolving field. Questions we used to have an answer to seem to be re-opened, and new questions emerge.
Symposium: Streaming Video as a Cultural Form
/in RMeS News /by Chantal12 juni 2025 | Utrecht University
The ‘Streaming Video’ Special Interest Group at Utrecht University is hosting a one-day symposium featuring eminent television scholars John Ellis and William Uricchio, alongside leading scholars from a new generation of scholars investigating streaming video and television as a medium in constant transition. The symposium will explore whether streaming video can be understood as a “cultural form,” much like Ellis conceptualized broadcast television as a cultural form shaped by industrial constraints, aesthetic conventions, and audience practices in his seminal 1982 book Visible Fictions. In the tradition of Uricchio’s influential work on the evolving nature of television, the symposium will also ask whether streaming video today exhibits enough stability in its industry, infrastructure, and user practices to be considered a distinct manifestation of television’s changing, pluriform emanations.
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.
Masterclass with Associate professor Neta Kligler-Vilenchik: Doing Qualitative Content Analysis on Social Media
/in RMeS News /by Chantal15 April 2025 | University of Groningen
Based on almost a decade and a half of qualitatively studying online participation, particularly on social media but also in semi-private/semi-publics meso news-spaces, I will share a practical workshop on how to do qualitative content analysis on social media.
Recipient RMeS PhD Workshop Grant 2024-2025: Nathalie Fridzema (RUG)
/in RMeS News /by ChantalWe are very proud to announce that Nathalie Fridzema, PhD at University of Groningen, will receive the RMeS Workshop Grant 2024-2025 for her proposal: Working with web archives in Media Studies: An introduction to theory, methods, and practices.
RMeS & ASCA event – Tuning In: A symposium on Vibes
/in RMeS News /by Chantal25 April 2025 | University of Amsterdam
Vibes are everywhere on social media; together with “moods” and “energies”, vibes offer a new way of navigating platforms based on personalized-yet-shared ‘aesthetic feelings’ meticulously curated for affective stickiness by machine learning algorithms whose vectors are equally intangible-yet-catchy. We have arguably entered the age of mood-regulating media.
Invitation: The Problem with Doing Media Research
/in RMeS News /by Karlijn Achterberg24 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam: Vox-Pop
There is no shortage of problems facing media researchers today, from fake news and the impact of AI to economic constraints on creative production; but what about the problems we face in *doing* media research? At a time when the need for critical media research is so great, this event is an attempt to turn our critical eye inward: what are the problems we need to solve in order to better carry out our core mission? A shape-shifting media landscape, questions of ethics and data access, unresolved frictions in interdisciplinary research, work pressure and imposter syndrome: this, too, is just a sampling of problems that media researchers face. Crucially, these same problems face researchers of all levels, from undergraduates learning the ropes to seasoned veterans and leaders in the field.
Vacancy: PhD in Journalism, Generative AI, and Critical Digital Literacy
/in RMeS News /by Karlijn AchterbergApplication deadline: 3 April 2025, 23:59PM Location: University of Groningen Job description The Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) at the Faculty of Arts and the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Science and Engineering are looking for a PhD student for the project “Assessing the reliability of news […]
NOG & RMeS Masterclass & Public Lecture with Prof. Mandy Rose: Virtual Reality and the Immersive Turn
/in RMeS News /by Chantal15 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.
IN-SIGHT presents: Standards in the making
/in RMeS News /by Chantal18 & 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.