It’s been over a month since the monumental shock that was Brexit as well as its immediate and messy aftermath of public confusion, political backtracking and the general media frenzy that could hardly keep up with the initial developments and shifting agendas.

(First Published on 14 December 2012) Back in January America was all abuzz with the largely-media-created controversy over whether or not the quintessentially British Ricky Gervais had gone too far with his humor as host of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. What can be got away with on the public airways has been a significant question from the beginnings of American television.

Call for Chapters Within the fields of film and television studies, feminist critics and scholars of the 1980s and 1990s have extensively analyzed the figures of women murderers in classical film genres like film noir and melodrama, as well as in less savory genres like the horror films of the 1970s and 1980s.

The NECS 2017 Conference SENSIBILITY AND THE SENSES Media, Bodies, Practices Paris, France 29 June to 01 July 2017 Hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Pre-Conference 27 and 28 June 2017 Hosted by the Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Keynote presentations Centre Pompidou Grand Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2017 Please note that the membership fee must be paid

Join the International Media Education Summit (III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIA EDUCATION AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE) in Segovia in June 2017. Each year the summit brings together a global network of media educators and media literacy practitioners to share research, pedagogy and innovation on all aspects of media education, media literacy education and media / technology in education.

You are cordially invited to participate in a one-day symposium ‘The Future of Public Service Media in Europe: Freedom, Independence and Media Relations with the State’ , organised by the LSE Department of Media and Communications and supported by the Programme on Modern Poland, Collegium Civitas, the LSE Media Policy Project and Polis.

Media played an integral, deeply complicated role in the recent presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s candidacy and win fundamentally transforming the relationship between the media, culture, and politics.

Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Friday 31 March — Saturday 1 April (linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis.

The recent General Election in the US shocked politicians, pollsters, political scientists, and progressives alike. How did two absurd people end up as the principal parties’ picks , and why will the most ridiculous coiffure since Jefferson’s enter the White House in January?

(First published on December 14th 2012) Image from AMC.com. I am watching *Walking Dead *on the small flat screen television that sits beside my computer.

Since CSTonline was last published at the end of June we have seen some seismic political shifts – the UK has voted to leave Europe in a total Brexit shocker, we have another female Prime Minister (let’s hope that’s all she has in common with the other one) and the US has just voted in a reality-TV star for President. Who would have thought that such huge changes would happen in a quarter of a year?