by Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Toni Pape, Belén Vidal and Andrea Virginás We are happy to present the Spring 2024 issue of NECSUS with a special section titled #Open. Edited by the members of NECS Open Scholarship committee, the articles in this section address openness as a value in […]
How much is enough? Who has enough and who is deprived of it? What is the use of limits – and of pushing past them? For this special section, we encourage more reflection about the notion and meaning of #enough and invite media scholars to problematize the notion from aesthetic, industrial, environmental, historical, economic and […]
by Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Toni Pape, Belén Vidal and Andrea Virginás While spending more and more time online, we increasingly forget the material conditions that enable us to communicate, study, or work over the internet. Our digital life seems to be disembodied and immaterial, although eye fatigue, infrastructural […]
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, […]
We have the great pleasure to welcome another new member to our Editorial Board: Judith Keilbach, Associate Professor in the Media and Culture Studies Department at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the transformation of television and on media technologies and infrastructures. She is currently working on a project about transnational media events and is interested […]
edited by Josephine Diecke, Dr. Bregt Lameris, and Dr. Laura Niebling With this special section we would like to provide a platform for the debate on media and materiality as it has been evolving with the digital turn. By approaching the topic of materiality and its effects on the basis of material objects, different paths […]
guest edited by Nicholas Baer (University of Groningen) and Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Did you hear? Rumor has it that the Spring 2022 issue of NECSUS will be devoted to the topic of gossip as a prolific yet contested form of media discourse. Spread the word! As Mladen Dolar has recently argued, […]
In addition to articles for our Features sections, NECSUS is also accepting proposals for festival, exhibition and book reviews for our upcoming Spring 2021 issue on a rolling basis. Review articles are generally 2,000-3,000 words and subject to internal review by the section editors. For the book review section, we invite critical writing on recent […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our upcoming Spring 2021 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 2021 issue, we accept abstracts until […]
We have the great pleasure to welcome another new member to our Advisory Board: Melis Behlil is an Associate Professor and Chair of Radio, Television and Cinema Department at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and has published on media industries and contemporary Turkish cinema. In addition, she also writes film reviews for various publications, co-hosts […]
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 […]
We are happy to announce that you can now follow NECSUS on Instagram. The journal can also be found on Twitter and Facebook. On Instagram we will share a wide variety of images that come from the journal articles, review sections, and audiovisual essays that have been published in our journal issues over the years. […]
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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