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When: 11 October 2024 | Utrecht University
Guest speakers: Dr Çiğdem Bozdağ (RUG) and Dr Bregt Lameris (OU)
Join us as we kick off the new academic year with an engaging roundtable discussion on Inclusivity in Media Research. This event will bring together experts to explore the challenges and opportunities in promoting inclusivity within the media research landscape. Through open dialogue, participants will have the chance to exchange ideas, share insights, and collaborate on fostering a more inclusive research environment.

2 October 2024 | University of Amsterdam
We welcome you to a special master class dedicated to exploring research into nuanced creator content and its connected communities. Tom Divon and Dr. Carolina Are will be unpacking the contested digital lives of their ongoing study participants – Palestinian, Jewish, and sex-positive content creators on digital platforms. In this master class, Tom and Carolina aim to uncover the opportunities and challenges these communities face on digital media as researchers deeply embedded within the landscapes and scenarios these participants inhabit. The masterclass will highlight how participants are able to connect under the watchful governance of Instagram and TikTok, which provide them with novel bonding opportunities and workstreams after having faced offline discrimination due to their work, background or style of expression while also rendering their earnings and activism remarkably precarious for the nuances of that same content they produce.

18 October 2024 | University of Amsterdam
The introductory lecture by Amir Vudka/Patricia Pisters will set the stage by discussing the theoretical underpinnings of Vincent Moon’s work. Topics will include Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the time-image, Paul Schrader’s transcendental style in film, and the elements of psychedelic cinema.
Following the lecture, students will engage in a dynamic Q&A session with Vincent Moon, including a live demonstration of his mixing and editing techniques of live cinema.

In this episode of Talk Media to Me, council members Nataliia Vdovychenko (TU) and Dennis Jansen (UU) discuss their lives as media scholars studying the intersection of war and media, in Ukraine and the Netherlands respectively. Why is it important and meaningful to study such a topic? How do you keep yourself sane when dealing […]

28 October 2024 | Utrecht University
Digital ethnography is a research approach that helps us understand how people use and make sense of digital technologies. Ethnographic methods value immersive and exploratory inquiry in naturalistic settings, thus revealing rich insights and perspectives that are inaccessible through other methods and research techniques (such as surveys, content analysis, and data mining). How can digital ethnographic approaches serve publicly engaged research on the digital society?