Communications, Media & Culture
@ University of Stirling
When I decided to undertake a degree in Broadcast Journalism, it was partly because I was weary of numbers –I took three years of mathematics, physics, and chemistry during my time at High School– and yet there I was, attending a University of Sheffield seminar Read More …
In recent years media scholars have been showing renewed interest in the home movie as an object of serious study. A recent conference held at University College Cork attended by Richard Kilborn considered the significance of home movie and amateur film material not only in Read More …
New… … Centre: Centre for Gender & Feminist Studies … Degree: MLitt/MSc in Gender Studies (Applied) … Professor: Karen Boyle, inaugural professorial lecture: ‘What’s the Point of Feminist Media Studies’ (March 5) … Event: ‘Challenging Everyday Sexism’ (17 March) … Survey: enhancing gender equality at Read More …
VENUE: Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling. DATE: Wednesday 19th March 2014. 9.30-4.30. More often than not, Wikipedia is treated as a dirty word in Higher Education. Whereas its everyday use and usefulness is clear, there remains a stigma attached to the use of Wikipedia in Read More …
This picture shows one of our international alumni, Christine Auer from Germany (left), together with her mother next to McEwan Hall, right after the University of Edinburgh’s postgraduate graduation ceremony in November 2013 (link: www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/registry/graduations/winter-2013-ceremonies). For those wondering what they can do with a Bachelor Read More …
Since the mid-2000s, major news events such as the London bombings and the Asian tsunami have led to the use of mobile phone video footage becoming a common feature of media content, both broadcast and online. Presenting data from a current study on the use Read More …
Entry written by Philippa Lovatt I was very fortunate to receive funding from the Division to allow me to attend the inaugural European Sound Studies Association Conference in Berlin 4-6th October 2013, which was organised by the Sound Studies Lab at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin and Read More …
Our Journalism students have often mentioned how much they have enjoyed it when we have a guest speaker come in and give a lecture on whatever their speciality may be. Hearing directly from a practicioner point of view, on a range of topics, can indeed be a truly inspiring experience for Read More …
The spring semester is almost upon us and we have put together what should be a fascinating series of seminars for our RPG community. Here is the programme in it’s entirety: Research & Postgraduate Seminar Series, Spring 2014 12th February: Professor Gerard Hastings (Director of Read More …