RMeS News

7 February 2025 | EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Do you prefer to spend your time on Letterboxd or are you simply interested in cinema, history and museum curation? On Friday, February 7, 2025, the Research School for Media Studies (RMeS) is organizing an inspiring visit to the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy an exclusive guided tour that takes you through the brand new exhibition about renowned Turkish director and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan, as well as the museum’s permanent collection.

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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, 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. […]

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.