When comedian Jimmy Fallon ruffled Donald Trump’s hair during an interview on The Tonight Show in the final weeks of the American election campaign, the internet exploded.

Department of Communication and Media, March 16th 2017 Organisers: Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and Zaki Habibi Fear is a key factor in today’s media landscape. A dynamics of fear frequently frames the news about the environment or immigration, it dominates discourses of security and surveillance, and it permeates people’s lived experiences in precarious times.

(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.  Since 2008, the economic context of precariousness and its aftermath has brought about shifts in Spanish film production and distribution.

The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in Paris, on March 20th, 2017. The one-day seminar is dedicated to the media coverage of different political and social events that took place in 1968 across the globe.

We were working with our first year students on pitches for programme ideas, when I noticed something very strange: my 18-19-year-old first year students knew who Bradley Walsh was. And more surprisingly (and perhaps shockingly) still: they loved him. Don’t get me wrong, I too love Bradley Walsh.

SHOWREAL – Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2017 12-13 April 2017 – Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin voicesonfilm in association with Irish Screen Studies, Dublin Business School, SAH Journal, Filmbase and Film Ireland will host the 13th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar on 12-13 April 2017.

Television Shows, Brands and Properties in the Global Television Scenario Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 23rd-24th, 2017 Confirmed keynote speakers: Jérôme Bourdon, Jean Chalaby Organized by Luca Barra and Paola Brembilla, in collaboration with Andrea Esser, the Media Across Borders network and the ECREA Television Studies section Media Mutations, the international conference of

Who wants to be Chair of the BBC? As it happens, nobody really. Who wants to be a director of Channel 4? As it happens, Ofcom recommended Althea Efunshile, former deputy chief executive of the Arts Council and a BAME woman.

“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening sentence of the call for papers for an upcoming conference at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne that makes the CW its main focus. “Network” – for the CW that has been a defining term, maybe one limiting the young station at its onset.

There is a quote I have used in my first year Media Cultures course, when I address the opening topic ‘Why study the media?’ I cannot recall where I first read it but I have always attributed it to French cultural theorist Roland Barthes. But now I am troubled that I cannot find a source for his words of advice, To be a critic one also needs to be a fan. Perhaps he never wrote such words. Maybe someone else did.