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.

Theme Editors: Amanda Lotz, Marion McCucheon and Sue Turnbull Overview This theme issue of MIA will explore the state of television in the age of the internet – its audiences, its distributors and its content creators.

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.