“The judgement of quality is always situated. That is to say, somebody makes the judgement from some aesthetic or political or moral position.” (Feuer, 2007: 145) This latest contribution to CST has been inspired by the viewing choices of most of my students, and their predilection for what has variously been described as popular television and mass entertainment.

Sport has long been a prominent feature of scholarly investigation across diverse disciplines including (but not being limited to) education, communication, media studies, tourism, advertising and marketing, public relations, sociology and psychology. However, with the rapid evolution and widespread adoption of new media technologies, the study of sport and its relationship with these disciplines demands recalibration.

We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speakers for this year’s King’s CMCI PhD Conference as Professor Anna Reading from King’s College London and Professor Catherine Grant from Birkbeck, University of London (see details below). The one-day conference will be held on 15 June 2018 at King’s College London . This year, the conference venue has moved to Bush House, former headquarters of the

With deep-felt thanks to the respondents. There is a wonderful video on YouTube that shows David Morley being interviewed about his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and his and Charlotte Brunsdon’s work on Nationwide . The video looks like it might be from the late 1980s, early 1990s, and Morley is in quite a reflective mood/mode, explaining how he came to the CCCS and how he came to do the work he

As someone who was fairly vocal about the need for long-running BBC flagship series Doctor Who to seriously address its gender problems, I was pleased, but not overjoyed, when it was announced that the thirteenth Doctor would be played by Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to take on the role.

Department of Theatre, Film and Television, TFTV University of York Post-Graduate Symposium, 21 ^st June 2018   Technology has radically changed our ways to approach, consume and enjoy media. The aesthetic experience of watching a Netflix series or engaging with the comments section in a newsfeed has become a daily experience we couldn’t have imagined a decade ago.

Call for Papers: Tintin and the City of the Golden Owls Theme: A two-day, cross-cultural and cross-media conference that discusses the work of Hergé and Tintin.

The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures (CMLL) at Mississippi State University will soon be hosting a symposium dedicated to “The metaphor of the monster.”  This exciting event will take place on Friday, September 21st, and Saturday, September 22nd, 2018.

We invite English abstracts up to 500 words, to be sent in MS Word and PDF format to: posthuman.conference@gmail.com Files should be named and submitted in the following manner: Submission: First Name Last name. docx (or .doc) / .pdf Example: “Submission: MaryAndy.docx” Deadlines: Abstracts should be received by the 1st of April 2018. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end of April 2018.

Deadline Extended: 20 March 2018. Television is and always has been changing. The recent shifts, connected to new, online providers creating their own content and offering new forms of distribution, have led to some scholars (Jenners 2016) questioning if the age of TVIV has arrived.

Postgraduate Conference Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr Laura Mee and Dr Johnny Walker The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its seventh annual postgraduate conference.