Okay girls and boys, gather round. Need your help here. Need your brains. Need your smarts. You’re clever people.  Most of you have got a degree.  Many of you have several degrees.  And probably a fair few have gone on for the doctorates – which reminds me, that rash at the back of my neck hasn’t cleared up yet so maybe you could take a look at it when we’ve sorted out this vastly more important issue.

Organized by: Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Film and Television Venue: Virtual Zoom Event Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Robert Prey (University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts) Diğdem Sezen (Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Transmedia Digital Art

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2021 that will take place at the University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, mainly from 20-24 September 2021 (with activities before and after these dates). Because of the pandemic situation, it is impossible to plan a physical meeting, so this Summer School will be an online event. THE FOCUS The ECREA

Confirmed keynote scholars : Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Kyle Bishop, Kevin Corstorphine, Justin Edwards, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Michael Howarth, Evert J. van Leeuwen, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Elizabeth Parker + Michelle Poland, David Punter, Julia Round, Christy Tidwell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Maisha L. Wester.

In her seminal text Illness as Metaphor (1978), Susan Sontag approaches the discourses around contagious diseases as systems of power and control over civil disobedience and difference. The text poignantly foreshadows the “treatment” of the HIV outbreak by Western public health providers and in the cultural imagination alike.

In Marvel Studios’ WandaVision , we are transported to a familiar television location: suburbia – in fact, we’re almost given a history of suburbia on-screen.

** In June 2018, a stand-up comedy show called Nanette dropped on Netflix . Written and performed by the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, it would go on to attract overwhelmingly positive reviews in international media, to win a plethora of high-profile awards, including two Emmys, and to launch Gadsby into a transnational orbit of celebrification and adulation.

You are invited to submit 300-word abstracts for the forthcoming edited collection provisionally titled *Difficult Death: Challenging Cultural Representations of Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. *The interdisciplinary collection seeks to examine a range of representations of and engagement with death and dying across different media and cultural forms including film, television, new media, journalism, performing arts and

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime Drama Special issue edited by Luca Barra (Università di Bologna) and Valentina Re (Link Campus, Rome)

[Cue Bill Paterson’s silkily smooth voiceover] Today, The Repair Shop is visited by Jaded Academic, who has brought a precious artefact – some might say, a national treasure – in the hope that Jay and the team can restore it to its former glory.

September 2020 saw the establishment of the Future of Media Commission in Ireland, which is tasked with considering the various challenges to Irish media and producing a series of recommendations that include how to fund public service media in a difficult environment. Among the challenges being investigated by the Commission are the funding of media, the impact of new technologies and new audience trends and behaviours. Fig.