The project ‘Critical media literacy through making media (MMM) A key to participation among migrant youth’, funded by the Dutch National Research Agenda and coordinated by Koen Leurs and Sanne Sprenger, has now evolved into a second stage in which we research the possibilities of a tailor-made literacy program for young migrants, by teaching the…

What roles do issues of copyright play in contemporary media and ‘open culture’? How can scholars of media and culture contribute to these societal and cultural questions? Researchers and practitioners will convene on these matters in a mini symposium on Tuesday, May 8th, focusing on case studies proposed by two experts from the field of…

The programme for Sonja’s Farewell Symposium on May 16th, 2018 (10.00 – 15.30u) is online. The topic is “The Many Lives of Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage’. Speakers are a.o. Jerome Bourdon (Tel Aviv), Andreas Fickers (Luxembourg), Pelle Snickars (Umeå) und Julia Noordegraaf (Amsterdam). See the full programme below. You can register via this link; entrance and…

This blog post has been written by Paul Schmidt. Find the original piece on his website. The small hand-held device Limenia picks up electromagnetic radiation from the surrounding and turns it into sound. In transposing this “electrosphere” into the spectrum of human perception, the device serves as an interface, allowing us to undertake speculations about…

On March 6 and 7 2018, the workshop “Critical Making of Frictional Urban Interfaces” took place. The workshop was a collaboration between Utrecht University’s Media & Culture Studies department (research group [urban interfaces] + research master program Media, Arts & Performance), and Creative Coding Utrecht, artists Ruben van de Ven (https://rubenvandeven.com) & Cristina Cochior (http://randomiser.info), in…

The organizing team (Karin van Es, Judith Keilbach, Nina Köll, Hanna Surma and Nanna Verhoeff) is happy to announce that the conference Media in Transition@UU (June 26 at Het Huis, Utrecht) will receive financial support from Co.Laborations, EYE, and Mediawijzer – Het Nederlands Netwerk voor Mediawijsheid. We are also excited that representatives from EYE and Mediawijzer will be joining us for round…

European research grant awarded for research into Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage Online, coordinated by prof. dr. E. Müller, Utrecht University. European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage (CADEAH) is the title of a programme that is awarded a three-year research grant by the EC Horizon 2020 programme JPICH Digital Heritage. The programme has…

From January 8 till 12, right after the Christmas break a group of 14 students from the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy (UU) and 11 students from the MA Scenography (HKU) worked together in small teams during an intensive studio week. This week was the fourth edition of a yearly UU-HKU exchange project in…

MCW is partnering in a new NWO-funded research project called ”Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities”. The mid-sized and centrally located municipality of Amersfoort is building a new Internet of Things infrastructure. A consortium of public and private partners will develop a government+citizen+academic+industry collaboration (a so-called ’quadruple helix’) that allows a wide range of…

In december 2017 is de nieuwe versie van de CLARIAH MediaSuite gelanceerd: mediasuite.clariah.nl. Met de MediaSuite kan je naast de volledige catalogus van het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, ook de Jean Desmet collectie van het EYE Filminstituut, de volledige krantencollectie van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en een aantal Oral History collecties doorzoeken. Uniek is dat de MediaSuite…