by Grant Bollmer Introduction In 2015, Facebook filed a patent that proposes the passive use of digital cameras on computers and smartphones, taking pictures of users, matching, among other things, photographed facial expressions with those in a database.[1] This would permit, the patent suggests, evaluation of subjective feelings about whatever appears on one’s social media […]
by Jens Eder, Julian Hanich, and Jane Stadler From movies to emojis, from love letters to flame wars, from shocking television news to immersive video games – emotions are of utmost importance for media production, reception, appropriation, and interaction. They guide the sensory perception and meaning-making of their users; they imprint media experiences into memory; […]
The Spring 2019 issue of NECSUS includes a special section on the theme #Emotions, guest edited by Jens Eder (Potsdam), Julian Hanich (Groningen), and Jane Stadler (Melbourne). The section brings together contributions by Steffen Hven, Grant Bollmer, Carl Plantinga, E. Deidre Pribram, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, David Evan Richard, and David W R Brown. Please refer to […]
guest edited by Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam) and Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) The advent of new algorithms of machine learning and AI is producing a profound revolution in societies: indeed, the ‘algorithmic turn’ involves cultural, cognitive, emotional, and practical layers of everyday life; from this point of view, AI directly […]
On 16 May in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press will co-host a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption by NECSUS editorial board member Toni Pape. […]
As part of a significant investment and expanding programme in existing and emergent research areas and student numbers across its MA and BA curricula in digital culture, King’s College London is recruiting five (Senior) Lecturers in the Department of Digital Humanities, with expertise ranging from digital methods and global digital cultures, to games and virtual […]
From 5-7 June 2019, a conference on Italian actress, diva and icon Anna Magnani will be hosted at the University of Torino, organised by Giulia Carluccio, Federica Mazzocchi, and Mariapaola Pierini. Through a variety of perspectives, the conference aims at tackling Magnani’s iconic work, which has had a peculiar influence on the history of Italian […]
Hito Steyerl, visual artist and Professor of Experimental Film and Video at University of the Arts in Berlin, has been awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The prize is accompanied by an exhibition and publication. Steyerl is honoured for her special interests in the media, technology, and the […]
The Radical Film Network is organising its first network meeting in Berlin, from 2-5 May 2019. The event focuses on artistic/creative and political/ethical positions within global radical film cultures. The RFNMB welcomes contributions from individuals and communities both inside and outside academia, from artists, activists, filmmakers, researchers, scientists, and others, looking for answer to the […]
by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta ‘There’s something to knowing the exact shape of the world and one’s place in it – don’t you agree?’ – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) Among the different critical turns that have been reshaping recent media scholarship, the emphasis on space and spatiality […]
From 16-17 December 2019, the Centre for Life-Writing Research of King’s College London organises a conference to address the current boom in biographical novels and biopics about women’s lives, thereby encompassing a broad conception of ‘woman’ that includes queer and trans life narratives. The conference examines the contemporary repackaging of historical women’s lives in narrative […]
The online platform Open Access in Media Studies has announced the launch of the new project MediArXiv. MediArXiv is the new open archive for media, film, and communication studies, and will be launched in early 2019 on the Open Science Framework platform. MediArXiv provides a non-profit platform for scholars to upload their working papers, pre-prints, […]
We are happy to announce that, in addition to the digital overview of past journal issues on the website, NECSUS now has a new online repository that provides open access to PDF downloads of previous journal volumes. All of the volumes published by the journal since 2012 are currently made available here, and it will continue […]
For the Autumn 2018 issue of NECSUS we have again compiled dynamic visual material and scholarly texts, including contributions that expand current research themes and explore new forms. The special section in this issue covers the topic #Mapping, guest edited by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta. The authors who have been selected to […]
by Adam Wickberg Introduction By 1570 the Spanish empire under the reign of King Philip II had already ruled the part of Central America known as New Spain for half a century. The famous conquistadors like Hernán Cortés and Christopher Columbus were dead and gone, but stories of their great fortune were very much alive […]