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.
by Charlie Shackleton
The Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University invites applications for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship in Cinema and Media Studies (CMS). In an effort to positively transform CMS by creating greater visibility and substantial equity for scholars of color, and address the long history of Black underrepresentation in our discipline, this opportunity is […]
Responding to the current limitations on access to academic research materials, the Public Books Database has compiled a list featuring academic presses with freely accessible titles online. Currently featuring over fifty academic presses from the Columbia University Press to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the list will be updated continuously as additional materials are […]
From 2-4 December 2020, Routledge, AMPS and PARADE will be hosting the virtual conference ‘Teaching-Learning-Research’ in collaboration with the Manchester School of Architecture. Connecting education professionals with educators in the fields of art, design and social science disciplines, the interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the connection between research and teaching. How are these two activities […]
From 18-29 May 2020, the ‘Open Publishing Fest’ will be highlighting creative, scholarly, technological and civic open publishing projects online. In the collaborative format, sessions are hosted by individuals and organizations as panel discussions, fireside chats, demonstrations as well as performances. Invited curators include John Chodacki (California Digital Library), Chris Hartgerink (Liberate Science), Christine Fruin […]
From 18-19 March 2021, PEriTiA will be hosting the conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. Featuring keynotes by Prof Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Prof Natali Helberger (Amsterdam), Prof Michael Latzer (Zurich) and Prof Christoph Neuberger (Berlin), the international conference is interested […]
The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative […]
The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) and the Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN) are co-hosting a virtual seminar series looking at different angles of the COVID-19 pandemic. Launching the series will be a talk by Prof. Priscilla Wald from Duke University on “Contagion: COVID-19, the Outbreak Narrative, and Why We Need […]
NECSUS accepts abstract submissions twice per year for a wide variety of articles on a number of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. These submissions will be considered for the Features section, which is part of every journal issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research […]
The Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews has asked staff members, visiting lecturers and PhD students to create themed playlists covering film, television and video. Ranging from contemporary films on human isolation to a playlist centered on documentarian Naomi Kawase, the playlists function both as resources for teaching as well as […]
From 29-30 June 2020, the University of Kent, Canterbury, will be hosting a virtual conference on ‘Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media’. Understanding city experiences as mediated through marketing, technology and communication, the conference aims to explore the connection between the digital and the life in the city across disciplines. Therefore, the conference invites […]
‘There is a point at which methods devour themselves.’ – Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks) One can observe, in recent years, an obsession with methods – both in humanities research and teaching. Discussions include apprehensions about the imminent obsolescence of established media studies methodologies, a more liberal (in all senses?) search for synergies with […]
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf has a vacancy for a full-time professorship starting in October 2019 in the field of analysis and aesthetics of audiovisual media within the department of media science. Applicants should have a willingness and motivation to cooperate with the artistic departments of the Film University, to collaborate on interdisciplinary teaching and […]
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
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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