Calls to decentre structures of cultural and political power have grown increasingly louder in the pandemic era. The 2021 edition of the Images Festival Research Forum invited different collectives and collective-like bodies of individuals – including Forensic Architecture, the Kinomatics Project and the inaugural curatorial team for the Toronto Biennial of Art – to explore […]
To strengthen European collaboration in the fields of media communications and cultural studies in the absence of possibilities for international (offline) meetings, Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen), Giovanna Mascheroni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Göran Bolin (Södertörn University), Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki), Nick Couldry London School of Economics and Political Science) and Veronika Kalmus […]
NECS and the Centre for Research in the Arts at Oxford Brookes will be co-hosting a monthly online lecture series on ‘Media and Migration’. Through five different lectures with a specific focus on methodology, the series proposes a shift from media narratives and the politics of representation to the methodological and epistemic issues related to […]
On 31 March & 1 April 2021, the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice will be convening the (virtual) International Media Education Summit. Bringing together researchers, educators and practitioners, the conference aims to showcase interdisciplinary, self-reflexive and practice-based research on all aspects of […]
From 7-9 April 2021, the University of Southampton Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) will be hosting the annual BAFTSS conference, which will take place entirely online. With the theme of ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’, the conference aims to bring attention to the construction of time and the body […]
From 7-9 July 2021, Falmouth University will be hosting the (rescheduled) conference ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts’. Encouraging an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagement with the ways dark concerns and anxieties have been and are currently envisioned, the conference invites contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists and activists. Possible topics range from the climate emergency to […]
From 10-11 June 2021, the Association of Adaptation Studies will be hosting the conference ‘Journeys: Memory and Migration’ at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Featuring keynotes by Dr. Dima Ayoub (Middlebury College), Dr. Golnar Nabizadeh (Dundee University) and theatre, television and film director Kenny Glenaan, the international conference is interested in various interpretations of these terms, […]
As part of ‘Alternative Film Video’, the international festival for new film and video work taking place from 9-13 December 2020 in Belgrade, NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir Jr and exhibition reviews editor Miriam de Rosa are organizing the ‘Alternative Research Forum’ on the topic of Desktop Cinema. Organised as a fully online event on […]
From 21-23 June 2021, the Link Campus University in Rome, Italy, will be hosting the international conference ‘Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film and Television’. As an open forum, the conference explores how crime narratives, as well as their production and reception, have contributed to the appearance of new transcultural representations. In […]
The online media repository media/rep/ has made several lectures from the ‘bochumer kolloquium medienwissenschaft’, held at the Ruhr-University Bochum, available online. The lecture series (2007-2014), featuring contributions from the fields of media studies, philosophy, sociology and history, aimed to address the cultural uneasiness concerning the technical-medial sphere and explore the systematic place of media and […]
On 30 October 2020, the London Metropolitan University will be hosting the virtual conference “Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to Fake News to Tweetstorms”. Considered one of the most media-driven and media-critiqued presidencies in American history, the virtual conference explores the influence of the media on the Trump presidency – and vice versa. […]
On 24 September 2020, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University, Prague, will be hosting the conference “Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism”. From simple templates to automated content production, from algorithms to the detection of fake news: How does the rise of artificial intelligence change […]
A new open access issue of NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies is now available online. The NECSUS Spring 2020 issue offers a special article section on #Intelligence, while also containing feature articles, festival, exhibition, and book reviews, and audiovisual essays. Find the new journal issue here.
This issue of NECSUS has been compiled, if not written, during the COVID-19 pandemic which has produced a shock across various existential domains: personal, social, political, economic, public health — the list goes on. Some of us may already have settled into new habits and routines that make this situation livable; yet a sense of […]
This paper aims to analyse how cultural products reflect the topics and problematics derived from technological and scientific advances and how these relate to the construction of the subject and power. Following the terminology coined by Foucault, this paper will refer to the technologies of the self and the technologies of power reflected in the new approaches to the relationships between humans and machines. In this precise sense, AI narratives and contemporary speculative fictions construct new realities in which factual truths turn into virtual realities and hyperrealities, usually addressing power and political conflicts as well as socioeconomic implications.
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London