To celebrate the launch of the Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue, the NECSUS editorial board is hosting a virtual conversation on #Cycles on Thursday, 25 January 2024 from 17-18.15h (CET). The figure of the cycle – both technical and aesthetic – functions as an entry point for thinking about cultural and political significance of cyclicality, circularity and […]
The purpose of the book review section is to inform NECSUS readers about new scholarship in media studies and to support critical engagement with published work. In the upcoming issues of NECSUS, we are particularly interested in featuring reviews of the following books: The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities, by Kathrin Maurer https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545907/the-sensorium-of-the-drone-and-communities/ Contemporary […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Spring 2024 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Spring 2024 issue, we accept abstracts until 22 October […]
edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee – Bregt Lameris, Miriam de Rosa, Jeroen Sondervan, Victoria Pastor-González and Tereza Czesany Dvořáková This special section guest edited by members of the NECS Open Scholarship Committee invites submissions that engage with questions of openness as an inherently broad notion. Such a concept underpins a variety of practices in […]
In recent years, the formats of scholarly publications have been diversified – this is also true for film and media studies. NECSUS has been an early adopter and a key journal in facilitating this development – namely by including a curated section dedicated to audiovisual essays, and by including scholarly perspectives on the GLAM sector […]
We are honoured and excited that our Spring 2022_#Rumors issue – guest edited by Nicholas Baer and Maggie Hennefeld – has been nominated for a BAFTSS Publication Award in the Category ‘Best Edited Collection’. Featuring eight research articles – Vintage furniture: The significance of the casting couch as industry gossip and rumor by Kate Fortmueller, Gossip’s ephemeral longevity: Power, […]
With our upcoming Spring 2023 issue_#Cycles, we are launching a new section: Contributing to the visibility of data work in media studies, the ‘Data Papers’ section will be edited by Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) and Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg). As a curated section, each issue of NECSUS will feature one or more data papers […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Autumn 2023 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Autumn 2023 issue, we accept abstracts until 15 […]
We are now inviting proposals for audiovisual essays exploring questions of cyclicality, circularity, and recursivity for our Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue – from loop films to televisual recursivity and gameplay loops to NPC life. The figure of the loop has become a staple technique of contemporary narrative art. In films and television series, time loops are […]
From 13-17 June 2023, the next NECS Conference will be hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway. This year’s theme ‘Care’ invites cinema and media scholars to come together to think about care and its implications across film and media history and into the digitally mediatised cultures of the 21st century. The local organizing team […]
This special section invites submissions that engage with questions of cyclicality, circularity, and recursivity in relation to media. Film history is traversed by the serial logic of production (such as silent serials, B-movies, and ephemeral sub-genre cycles) as well as the embracing of tropes of circularity bound by the Deleuzian time-image. Well beyond this purview, […]
On 12 October 2022 at 18.00 (CEST), NECS and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis will host this year’s first lecture in the online series on ‘The Call for an Image-Object. On Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi and Armenity’. Borrowing from recent literature in material culture, the lecture offers a close look to the video Return to Khodorciur: Armenian […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Spring 2023 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Spring 2023 issue, we accept abstracts until 15 […]
For the book review section in NECSUS, we are currently looking for contributions for the Spring and Autumn 2023 issues – focusing on either one publication or bringing two or more publications into a dialogue with each other. The book review section in NECSUS publishes critical writing on recent publications that fall within the broad […]
edited by Dr. Maria Vélez-Serna and Dr. Markus Stauff Connecting infrastructures and logistical mediation Ports – the harbours that allow and regulate circulation across land and sea and the interfaces that connect electric devices with peripherals – are places of especially intense mediation and thus of heightened socio-technological drama. The seaport is the condition for transport […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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