Alenka Jelen's blog

Applications are invited from UK and EU applicants for a PhD studentship focusing on how new digital media can be applied to the performing arts, working closely with Glyndebourne.
 
Online user communities are now a pervasive component in society and this project will examine innovation within Glyndebourne, using new means to connect with their current audience and to expand their services to a much wider community. The project is expected to look at social and economic factors and new business models.
 

WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) is an academic department at the University of Warwick. It was established by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 in order to reinvigorate UK manufacturing. Our success over the past 30 years is the result of cutting edge research and effective knowledge transfer, working with global companies.  Today we work across many sectors including automotive; aerospace and defence; digital; energy and utilities; food and drink; government; healthcare and pharmaceutical. 
 

University of Bedfordshire - Bursary Research Student
 

“A PhD is an empty signifier” - Coming from a joke that gladdened the workshop on Laclau’s Discourse Theory, this sentence followed my thoughts throughout the ECREA summer school in Tartu, while it sometimes reappears in the conversations I’m having when keeping in touch and sharing my doctoral experiences with other scho

 
Lecture on Research Ethics in Media and Communications by Sonia Livingstone, Shani Orgad and Bingchun Meng, Department of Media and Communications, LSE. The lecture considers the obligations of the researcher, institutional procedures, ethical issues, the right to privacy, informed consent and epistemological underpinnings.
 

YECREA memebers have put together a list of new books in the area of communicaiton studies. The list contains the books that have been published in 2009 and are believed to be of relevance for young communicaiton scholars.
 
The Nation on Screen: Discourses of the National on Global Television
Edited by Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest and Hugh O’Donnell

Nordicom Review has just published a jubilee issue -edited by Ulla Carlsson- containing a collection of the various plenary addresses on the theme of Media and Global Divides presented at the IAMCR World Congress in Stockholm 2008.