Film and Television Studies Postgraduate Awards
- One fully-funded research preparation Masters Award in Film and Television Studies (2011 – 2012)
- One fully-funded Doctoral Award in Film and Television Studies (2012 – 2013)
We strongly welcome applicants interested in applying for conventional Film and Television Studies and innovative digital approaches to the study of Film and Television from either a digital humanities or digital media background. For example, understanding film/television as software, the digital remediation of traditional media forms, film/television in the infinite archive, the digital 'folding' of film, new digital narratives and storylines, software takes command/software studies approaches to film, and the 'softwarization' of culture, particularly in relation to film and television.
The closing date for applications is 15 July 2011.
For information about the awards, please see the College of Arts and Humanities webpage
For application forms and more information contact: COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@swansea.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)1792 295926.
Dr. Tsatsou publishes a book chapter on digital divides in Greece
Dr. Panayiota Tsatsou has published a new book chapter on the digital divides in Greece.
This book chapter draws on the scholarly literature on digital divides as well as on various policy schools and paradigms to argue that the existence of digital divides in Greece is to a significant extent a result of both culture and regulation. Data and evidence concerning the Greek puzzle of digital divides allow this chapter to apply a general socio-cultural and regulatory account to a case-study that is of particular interest, since it entails significant implications for future research on digital divides in Europe.
‘Digital Divides in Greece: role of culture and regulation. Implications for the European Information Society’, in L. Fortunati, J. Vincent, J. Gebhardt, A. Petrovcic, & O. Vershinskaya (Eds.) Interacting with Broadband Society. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Further details are available here:
25 March 2010
Swansea hosts CFP: The Computational Turn Conference
Swansea University is due to host an international conference, CFP: The Computational Turn, in March 2010.
Keynote speakers will include N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University) and Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).
The conference is organised by Dr. David Berry.
For full information, including a call for papers, please see: http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/
7 January 2010
Dr. Panayiota Tsatsou publishes in the Journal of Children and Media
Dr. Panayiota Tsatsou, Lecturer in Media and Communication, published (first author) an article in the Journal of Information Technology, co-edited (with Prof. Sonia Livingstone, LSE) a special issue of the Journal of Children and Media and contributed an article to the same issue.
In November 2009 Panayiota presented her paper entitled ‘a socio-cultural approach to Internet policy and regulation. Findings and implications of an ethnographic study’ at the ECREA DGPuK ‘Digital Media Technologies Revisited’ Conference (Berlin, Germany). In the same month she chaired a panel on ‘the potential of ICTs: social empowerment vs. social exclusion’ at the CIRN Community Informatics Conference 2009 (Prato, Italy).
You can find the details of these publications below:
- (December 2009) (with Elaluf-Calderwood, S. & Liebenau, J.) ‘Towards a Taxonomy for Regulatory Issues in a Digital Business Ecosystem in the EU’ in Journal of Information Technology. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/jit200922a.html
- (November 2009) (with Livingstone, S.) ‘Comparative issues and findings for children’s internet use in Europe’. Special issue ‘European children go online’ in Journal of Children and Media 3(4): 309-15. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916954225
- (November 2009) (with Livingstone, S) Editor of the Special issue ‘European children go online’ in Journal of Children and Media 3(4). http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916954225
27 January 2010
Dr. Berry gives invited lecture
David M. Berry was invited to give a plenary lecture at the International Conference for Law and Society/Law and Literature, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 December 2009.
Dr. Berry was also invited to present a paper at a departmental research seminar in the Media and Film department at Sussex University 11 Nov 2009.
7 January 2010
Dr Panayiota Tsatsou publishes research on the digitial divide
Dr Panayiota Tsatsou has recently published a range of papers on digital divides, policy and culture; and, children and new media technologies.
Dr Tsatsou recently completed her PhD at the London School of Economics on Digital divides in Greece. The thesis was supervised by Professor Sonia Livingstone.
On 22 August 2009 Panayiota presented her work on Children and Cyberbullying at the COST ISO801 post-conference workshop ‘Cyberbullying: definition and measurement issues’. The workshop took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information on this event, see at http://www.ecdp2009.com/index.php?id=117
On 16 June 2009 Panayiota presented a paper entitled ‘Child pornography on the internet and policy challenges’ at the Porn Cultures: Regulation, Political Economy, and Technology Conference. The conference was held at Leeds University, UK. For more information on this event, see at http://sgsei.wordpress.com/leeds-programme-2/
On 15 May 2009 Panayiota Presented a quantitative study on the role of social culture in Internet adoption in Greece at the COST 298 Conference ‘The Good, the Bad and the Challenging’. The Conference was held in Copenhagen, Sweden. For more information on this event, see at: http://conference2009.cost298.org/.
On 8 May 2009 Panayiota presented a paper on the role of the public in decision-making for the Information Society and the implications for civic participation at the ‘New Media & Information: Convergences & Divergences’ conference organized by the Panteion University and Megaron Plus in Athens, Greece.
For more information on this event, see at: http://media2009.conferences.gr/
Please also see Dr. Panayiota Tsatsou's profile for further information.
4 October 2009.
