Communications, Media & Culture
@ University of Stirling
The winner of the Jonathan Witchell Memorial Prize for Best Radio Feature 2013 has just been nominated in the category of Best Audio Programme in the Creative Scotland Student Media Awards. “Smashed” was produced by Tommaso Aglietti, Laura Best, Grace Pearshouse and Kenneth Port as Read More …
I should begin by saying that, despite the conference title and theme drawing on Deleuze’s work, the conference I attended wasn’t, in fact, a ‘Deleuze conference’. This was pointed out to me by one of the conference organisers, Dr Jennifer Barker (whose writing I very Read More …
In thinking of the ways media studies can impact our awareness of environmental concerns, I have frequently sought to combine ecocritical explorations of the media with studies of audiences. As part of this orientation, I edited a special issue of Intellect’s Interactions: Studies in Communications Read More …
If the applause, cheers and whistles at the end of Professor Karen Boyle’s inaugural lecture were anything to go by, it’s fair to say that it went down a storm. Professor Boyle managed to do what is likely to be the biggest challenge when giving Read More …
As I begin to write this article, I do so with no preconceived knowledge of not only who you are, but also where you’re from, what age you are or what you happen to do for a living. But the very fact that you are Read More …
BBC Senior Producer of radio features and documentaries, Mark Rickards, will be giving a guest lecture to the 3rd year radio feature production students next Monday, 10th March, in PLT from 9-11 am. Mark has produced programmes across all BBC networks but mostly for BBC Read More …
I’m Ross Brannigan, and I am a first year Politics and Journalism student here at Stirling. When I first considered journalism as a potential career path I had no inclination to, initially, take Journalism as a course at university. Crazy right? But, for me, I Read More …
In recent years media scholars have been showing renewed interest in the home movie as an object of serious study. A recent conference held at University College Cork attended by Richard Kilborn considered the significance of home movie and amateur film material not only in Read More …
Christmas Conference Antici… pation. For a number of years now, Final Year students from the Division of Communications, Media and Culture have gathered just before the Winter Break to present their own research work in progress. Although it’s true that it is a requirement of Read More …
Professor Matthew Hibberd welcomes our new Students to CMC A very warm welcome to our new WordPress site called CMCstir, the Division’s new blogging tool where news and information about Communications, Media & Culture will be circulated and discussed. We hope that this space will Read More …