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Department of Media and Culture Studies

The Department of Media and Culture Studies provides education on and carries out research in the fields of film, television, games, new media and digital culture, theatre, dance and performance, gender and ethnicity, music and cultural policies. Culture is a dynamic mix of artistic, creative and everyday practices with which people shape their identities and actions, and within which societal structures and institutions take shape. Media (old and new) are crucial factors in these processes.

The department is the home base for all the lecturers who teach in the Bachelor’s programmes Media en Cultuur and Muziekwetenschap . They also teach in the various Master's programmes, including  Applied Musicology , Arts and Society , Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy , Film and Television Cultures ,  Gender Studies , Gender Studies (research) , Media, Art and Performance Studies , Musicology and New Media & Digital Culture .

Research Groups

The scholars in media and culture studies from the various research groups often work together to explore issues surrounding different facets of the role played by art, culture, and media in present-day society. The research focuses on a broad range of media and cultural and artistic performances, which are studied within their intermedial context. We pay particular attention to the relation between historical and contemporary developments, transmedial and intermedial phenomena, cultural diversity, emancipation, heritage and the digital humanities.

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Doing a Phd

If you have completed your Master's programme, and you are enthusiastic about doing research in your field, then maybe doing a Doctorate (PhD) might be something for you. A Doctor’s degree is the highest academic degree awarded by a Dutch university. You start as 'assistant in training' (aio) or 'researcher in training' (oio).

At Utrecht University

At Utrecht University you take part in education in one of the Graduate Schools and often also teach students. During the four-year PhD programme you work under the guidance of a professor on creating a research project that results in a dissertation or a series of articles in scientific journals. You can search for positions on research projects on offer or a position whereby you are free to submit your own research proposal. Read more on doing a PhD at Utrecht University. 

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The best way to find a PhD position is through networking with the professor in the field you wish to specialize. Another option is to search via www.academictransfer.nl . Here you can also find more information on doing PhD research in the Netherlands. 

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• Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
• Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
• Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH); a joint initiative with the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of  Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

National Research Institutes

• Research School for Media Studies  (RMeS); a collaboration of eight Dutch universities led by the University of Amsterdam, for PhD training and research dissemination.
• Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
• Huizinga Institute ; National research network for cultural history

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• CREATE (Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective); investigates how cultural industries have shaped Amsterdam’s unique position in a European and global context, from the seventeenth century until the present day.
• DATACTIVE ; about big data collection, privacy and surveillance, social movements, activism and internet activism.
• ASCA Cities Project ; '   brings together a diverse group of scholars, research students, and practitioners particulary interested in comparing the cultural dimensions of cities.
• CHINA CREATIVE ; from  Made in China  to  Created in China . A Comparative Study of Creative Practice and Production in Contemporary China.
• Every year, the New Media Team organises a 'Summer and Winter School'.

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15 Best universities for Media Studies in the Netherlands

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Below is a list of best universities in the Netherlands ranked based on their research performance in Media Studies. A graph of 78.2K citations received by 7.35K academic papers made by 15 universities in the Netherlands was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

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1. University of Amsterdam

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2. Utrecht University

3. University of Groningen

4. Free University Amsterdam

5. Erasmus University Rotterdam

6. Leiden University

7. Radboud University

8. Tilburg University

9. Maastricht University

10. University of Twente

11. Delft University of Technology

12. Wageningen University

13. Eindhoven University of Technology

14. Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Professional Education

15. Utrecht School of the Arts

The best cities to study Media Studies in the Netherlands based on the number of universities and their ranks are Amsterdam , Utrecht , Groningen , and Rotterdam .

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At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam we provide three or four year research intensive PhD programs, or part time PhD programs with a duration above four years, organized in graduate schools of nine VU Amsterdam faculties. We expect our doctoral graduates to become internationally engaged scientists with transferable skills and opportunities to plan a career in or outside academia. 

We offer customized training and supervision with a strong emphasis on the development of research as well as professional skills such as the ability to work in teams and collaborate. In short, we wish to develop engaged and responsible academics and future professionals who constantly explore and push back the boundaries of existing knowledge. Our doctorates are internationally-oriented, multi and interdisciplinary, curiosity and results driven, creating an impact in science, society and economy.

Earning a doctorate from VU Amsterdam often leads to a career as a scholar and researcher in universities, and non-universities (universities of applied sciences); non-profits and think tanks; consultancies and corporations.

At VU Amsterdam we have two types of PhD candidates: internal and external. Internal PhD candidates are paid employees of VU Amsterdam and enter into labor agreement with VU Amsterdam. External PhDs candidates undertake a PhD at VU Amsterdam with a foreign funding or scholarship scheme, or are self funded professionals or students. 

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LIAS staff has a strong track record in supervising internationally competitive PhD research in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, and the study of religion. Our graduates go on to work in a range of professional fields, academic and other. This page provides information for prospective and current PhD candidates of the Graduate School of Humanities, who want to pursue their PhD under the supervision of one of the members of LIAS.

LIAS accepts new PhD applications for enrollment yearly on 1st September. The deadline for submitting your application is 1st February of that same year. 

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The PhD degree signifies the ability to contribute to the advancement of knowledge by conducting independent, original research. PhD research is the lifeblood of the academy. Writing a dissertation is a formative experience that enables sustained, source- and fieldwork-intensive research, and the development of an academic habitus. It affords the space to explore the academic landscape in terms of disciplines, themes, places in the world, and theoretical and methodological perspectives; and to build expertise, skills, and networks for academic and other research-related careers.

In the Graduate School of Humanities, the PhD trajectory nominally requires four years of fulltime commitment. The degree is awarded in Humanities, on the authority of the Doctorate Board, in accordance with the University’s PhD regulations .

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In terms of legal status, PhD candidates in the Netherlands include self-funded candidates, scholarship candidates, and employees.

Employee positions are salaried,  and usually funded by NWO and EU project grants and filled through international recruitment.

Scholarship  candidates bring full scholarships from funding sources outside the University (examples in LIAS include the governments of China, Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan, and the EU; and dedicated foundations).

Self-funded  candidates primarily rely on private resources.

From 1 September 2020 LIAS charges a yearly EUR 450 administrative fee for PhD candidates.  For PhD candidates who register on or as of 1 September 2024 this fee will change to EUR 400 for self-funded PhD candidates and EUR 2800 for scholarship PhD candidates. As of 1 September 2026 all LIAS  self-funded and scholarship PhD candidates will be charged this annual fee, depending on their situation this will be the low or high tariff.

Some general information on scholarships for PhD research at Leiden University is found here . This page mostly lists grant schemes for which Leiden University is structurally involved in the assessment process, and prospective candidates are encouraged to explore other funding sources. International, community-maintained websites listing PhD scholarships come and go, and vary a great deal in orientation and coverage. Some are focused on humanities and/or social sciences and filterable for destination countries.

For an indication of the cost of living in the Netherlands, see the website here .

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Participation in local academic life – attending scholarly events, doing coursework, presenting one’s work, peer learning and so on – offers signifcant added value for professional development, and this presumes the student’s regular physical presence on campus. However, LIAS will consider applications from students planning to do their research while based outside the Netherlands.

Visiting candidates

Students seeking the PhD degree at other institutions who want to spend substantial time at LIAS are welcome to apply for the status of visiting scholar.

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Academic integrity is essential to scholarship. Breaches of academic integrity may result in disciplinary action, including expulsion from the University and withholding or nullification of the PhD degree. Fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (FFP) are well-known examples, but academic integrity is about much more than avoiding FFP. It is about the development of one’s professional habitus as an academic.

PhD candidates must ensure that their work complies with academic integrity standards. All candidates are expected to familiarize themselves with the relevant information , and to attend a Graduate School of Humanities seminar on academic integrity in the first year of their PhD research.

PhD candidates’ participation in local research events will benefit their work, both academically and in social terms. This includes events organized especially for LIAS PhD candidates by the PhD Council and the Graduate Studies Advisor as well as public events held in the University and its partner institutions. See, for example,

• the LIAS home page and its links to other institutions and projects
• Asian Modernities and Traditions
• Global Asia Scholar Series
• Global Interactions
• Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society .

PhD regulations and protocol

Prospective candidates and supervisors are advised to familiarize themselves with the University’s PhD regulations , the explanation of the relevant procedures , and the forms that need to be filled out at various moments.

Any queries may be addressed to the LIAS secretariat .

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Cinema and Media Studies, PhD

The Department offers a full-time Ph.D. program. Comprehensive in the range of specializations, the program is intellectually dynamic and rigorous. Our Ph.D. program prepares students for full participation in the profession as scholars and teachers of Cinema and Media Studies, broadly conceived.  The Ph.D. provides students with training in a variety of global and comparative approaches to studying diverse national cinemas and a variety of media institutions and art practices. We are committed to an advanced humanities education to address our shared need to be able to think historically and critically about the structures, operations, ethics, aesthetics, and interactions of cinema and media.    Our departmental ethos reflects our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment that is at once rigorous and nurturing. We expect our graduate students to be full members of the Department and encourage them to take an active role in the intellectual and social community of the University by attending colloquia, screenings, roundtables, discussions, and events in the Department as well as across campus.

Required Courses

The total number of course units required is 16. 

Teaching Requirement

Four semesters of teaching are required.

Language Requirement

In addition to a command of English, students must demonstrate reading knowledge in a minimum of one research language relevant to the particular subfield being studied. More languages may be required by the proposed field of study, and the program strongly encourages multiple language acquisition. The specific languages required for each student will be determined by the student and the student’s faculty advisor in consultation with the Graduate Chair. As Digital Humanities is becoming such a large part of our new department, we will also consider programming languages as needed.

Qualifications Evaluation

At the end of the second year, students will select one paper from those they have written in their first year of study, substantially developing it over the course of two further semesters in dialogue with their advisor and two additional members of the Graduate Group. This group of three faculty members constitutes the Qualifications Examination Committee. Students will work on the paper throughout the first semester of their second year. In the spring semester of their second year, the student will present their paper to the committee, followed by a discussion. The Qualifications Exam assesses a student’s ability to write a coherent research paper of publishable quality. The student’s grade (High Pass/Pass/Fail) will be recorded, and both the student and the SAS Graduate Division will be notified of the outcome of the evaluation.

The field exam is a two-hour oral exam, which will take place at the end of the fall semester of the student’s third year. It consists of questions about the student’s lists, fields, and write-ups. The student will be given these questions in the form of two separate closed-book three-hour exams that will be taken a week apart from each other. The Fields Committee will then meet with the candidate to discuss the written answers and offer feedback.

Candidacy Examination

A Ph.D. Candidacy Examination will be held after the candidate has completed all required coursework, including language requirements and attendance at the CIMS colloquium. The candidacy exam, which will be both oral and written, entails the successful defense of a Dissertation Proposal with the Dissertation Committee. The Dissertation Committee will meet with the student to discuss the proposal for a two-hour session sometime in mid- spring semester of the third year. Feedback will be provided to the student and the student may be asked to make revisions to the proposal. The final version of the dissertation proposal must be submitted by the last day of classes of the Spring semester.

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Upon completion of the dissertation, students will present an overview of their research project to faculty and peers. This presentation will be followed by a closed conversation among the student, the dissertation committee (who will have received the complete dissertation several weeks earlier), and the graduate chair. This will allow faculty members formally to evaluate the project formally and to give feedback on how to develop the project in the future.

The degree and major requirements displayed are intended as a guide for students entering in the Fall of 2024 and later. Students should consult with their academic program regarding final certifications and requirements for graduation.

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The interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy in American Culture Studies offers students the opportunity to critically explore the cultural and intellectual traditions that have historically shaped and defined American identity. The Program challenges students to think of culture as a dynamic and contested domain, whose definition and deployment are negotiated in the context of complex power dynamics and struggles. It invites students to explore the ways in which American identity has been historically gendered and racialized in myths of nation-making, nationalism, and national identity. In addition, we encourage students to consider these negotiations and struggles over identity in their larger transnational and diasporic contexts.

The American Culture Studies Program is comparative and interdisciplinary in nature. It emphasizes the development of critical analytical and scholarly skills, and offers practical training to prepare students for academic and professional careers.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Ph.D. degree, students in the American Culture Studies program are expected to be able to:

• Communicate clearly orally and in writing interpretation of the American experience informed by relevant cultural theory, at a professional level 
• Formulate one’s own interdisciplinary field of inquiry within American and Cultural Studies and attain mastery of this subject matter as well as command of the relevant broader theoretical and methodological approaches. 
• Design and produce original and significant interdisciplinary research advancing knowledge and engaging with scholarship in American Culture Studies and related field(s)
• Engage with profession through activities in professional societies, publication, and other scholarly and professional activities. 

Admission Requirements

The American Culture Studies - PhD Program applicants are expected to have earned a Masters degree. Additional Documents Required:

• Three Letters of Recommendation
• Professional Resume
• Statement of Purpose
• Writing Sample

International applicants are required to submit scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), or the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTEA). Successful completion of ELS 112 will also be accepted for this requirement. 

Additionally, Duolingo test scores will be accepted for applications through Summer 2025. Applicants of the Graduate College who have completed a previous degree (associate, bachelor’s master’s or doctorate) from a U.S. college/university or are from a country (click here for a complete list) in which instruction was delivered in English (and attended the university for at least two years) are exempt from providing these test scores.

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Curriculum requirements, required courses (21 credits).

• ACS 7100 - Research Methods
• ACS 7300 - Seminar in Theories of American Culture Studies
• ACS 7400 - Genealogy of American Culture
• ACS 7450 - Publication and Professional Development
• ACS 7600 - Critical Approaches in Film Studies
• ACS 7750 - Dissertation Workshop
• ACS 7700 - Media and Cultural Studies

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Interdisciplinary Primary Concentration : Film, Media, and Culture. Select 9 credits.

Secondary Concentration : Disciplinary area or completion of a graduate certification program. Choose from Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, Public History, Performance Studies, or Social Media certificates. Select 12 credits. 

Elective : Select 3 credits.

Other Requirements (6 credits)

• ACS 7980 - Readings for Core/Preliminary Examination

Culminating Experience (16 credits)

• ACS 7990 - Dissertation Research

Minimum Total Credits (61 credits)

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• Minimum of 3 credits of 6990 required for Plan I master’s students.  Maximum of 6 credits may be applied toward degree requirements. 
• Minimum 3.0 graduate cumulative grade point average
• Minimum of 18 credits must be at the 6000-level or higher
• Minimum of  24 credits must be earned at BGSU
• All requirements must be completed within six years from the end of the earliest course used to fulfill degree requirements.

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Hosted annually by the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music , the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Awards recognize excellence in Music Composition, and are open to all UC Santa Barbara undergraduate and graduate student music majors in the Department of Music , the College of Creative Studies , and the Media Arts and Technology Program . The 2024 Awards included three categories: Work for Large Ensemble, Work for Chamber Ensemble, and Electronic/Audio-visual Work.

Every year, three external judges are nominated by the Corwin Chair to evaluate student scores and recordings and award prizes linked to monetary rewards, concert performances, and studio recordings. Nominated by Corwin Chair of Composition João Pedro Oliveira , this year’s jury included Katherine Balch from Yale University,  Rodolfo Souza from Sao Paulo University, and Mikel Kuehn  from Eastman School of Music. Read on to learn more about each of the 2024 Awardees and their works. 

The Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Awards are generously supported by the Corwin Family Foundation. 

Graduate Student Awards:

Category 1: No prize

Category 2: Prize: Raphael Radna  - "Kohelet"

Category 3: Prize: Deniz Çağlarcan - "Shadows"

Undergraduate Student Awards:

Category 1: No prize

Category 2: Prize:  Leah Graalfs - "Across Worlds"

Category 3: Prize: Lucian Parisi - "foam, resin"

About the Composers & Works

Raphael Radna  - "Kohelet"

Raphael Radna is a composer and computer music researcher working in acousmatic music, mixed music, computer-assisted composition, spatial audio, and creative music software development. He has presented music and research worldwide in such venues as the International Computer Music Conference, the Digital Audio FX Conference, the SEAMUS National Conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Visiones Sonoras Festival of Music and New Technologies; and has collaborated with such artists as Erin McKibben, Antonina Styczeń, Shanna Pranaitis, HOCKET, and the Isaura String Quartet. His music technology work includes the Space Control spatialization software, the Xenos stochastic synthesizer, and projects for prominent developers Arturia and Cycling ‘74. His chapter on Xenos will appear in the forthcoming volume “Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies” from Open Book Publishers. Raphael holds a BA in Music from Vassar College, an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and an MS in Media Arts and Technology from UC Santa Barbara , where he is currently a PhD candidate in Music Composition . He has had the privilege of studying with João Pedro Oliveira , Curtis Roads , and Clarence Barlow during his time at UCSB.

Kohelet, for clarinet, piano, cello and electronics “Kohelet” is a book in the Ketuvim (“Writings”) of the Hebrew Bible. In this text, the mysterious Kohelet ruminates on the paradoxical search for meaning in a life that we know must end. “Havel havalim, hakol havel,” Kohelet’s insistent refrain: “Everything is vapor!” I composed this work during a period of great upheaval in my life. I found myself returning time and again to the ancient words of Kohelet in my own contemplation of the nature of meaning: in duty, devotion, suffering, and loss; in oneness, twoness, passion, and progeny; in perseverance, achievement, fulfillment, and destiny—and also in the creation and enjoyment of music. There are many ways we might respond when faced with our own transience. We can become agitated or indignant; we can become afraid; we can despair, become despondent; we can succumb to denial and struggle against our fate; or we can submit to our inherent meaninglessness and perhaps find liberation therein. “To everything, there is a season,” teaches immortal Kohelet; all of these moods—and perhaps others—are reflected in this work.

Deniz Çağlarcan - "Shadows" Deniz Çağlarcan   is a Los Angeles-based composer, violist, and conductor initially from Istanbul, Turkey. He investigates the sonic quality of electronic music by any means and realizes this idealized environment as a model for his musical language. Çağlarcan’s music explores the interaction between acoustic instruments and electronic sounds within their sonic morphology. Besides, he is intrigued to create an environment by utilizing various immersive audio techniques as well as visuals and spatial elements that surround the audience. He performs interdisciplinary works collaborating with media artists, computer graphics developers, and machine learning engineers. His works include solo instrumental pieces, chamber music, large ensembles, tape/electroacoustic works, live-electronic, mixed works, audio/visual compositions, site-specific sound installations, arrangements as well as film and video games scores. Besides his composition career as a violist, he performs in solo concerts, chamber music, new music ensembles, and popular music. He is also co-founder of the ADE Duo ensemble. He studied orchestral conducting for over eight years, and at Central Michigan University, he continued very in-depth study with José-Luis Maúrtua. He holds degrees in Master of Music in Viola Performance from Central Michigan University and a Master of Arts in Composition from Bilkent University. Çağlarcan is currently a Ph.D. student in Composition studying with João Pedro Oliveira and Master of Science in Media Arts and Technology with Curtis Roads at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He has studied with notable composers and performers; Mark Andre, Beat Furrer, Tolga Yayalar, Bruno Mantovani, Ken Ueno, Pierluigi Billone, Clara Iannotta, Alberto Posadas, Isabel Mundry, Ulrich Kreppein, Laura San Martin, Jay C. Batzner, Alicia Valoti, Sheila Browne, Scott Woolweaver, Yuri Gandelsman, Tatjana Masurenko, Walter Küssner, Hartmut Rohde, Alexander Zemtsov, Ulrich Mertin, Christine Ruthledge.

Leah Graalfs - "Across Worlds" Leah Graalfs is a student at UCSB studying Music Composition with the College of Creative Studies . She is a pianist and percussionist, with a background in jazz, and she often features these instruments when writing chamber and concert works. She aspires to compose video game soundtracks, with some of her inspirations being composers Lena Raine and Koji Kondo. In her spare time she loves to crochet and, of course, play video games, especially old Nintendo and indie games.

This piece explores distinct “worlds” of sound, drawing on the inspiration of being in a unique new environment during my first year at UCSB. The distinguishable sections of the piece resemble different experiences and the emotions that come along with them. The interplay across the marimba and vibraphone represents the connection between my hometown and UCSB, sometimes in stark contrast, sometimes in serene harmony. The development later into the composition reflects the expansion of my worldview that comes along with learning to adjust to a completely new set of life experiences — new people, new sounds, new emotions, not without their deep lows as well as soaring highs — a whole new world.

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• PhD Researchers

Ruth Mei Ulina Malau | Understanding the relationship between social media use and identity performances of the minority youth in Indonesia

How do the minority youth consume social media? What are the effects social media use on the social interactions of the minority youth in Indonesia? How do the minority youth in Indonesia express and negotiate their identities on social media? These are the research questions addressed in the project. Despite the fact that young people are among the most active users of online media, their experiences are often marginalized in academic discussions of the internet within the discipline of communication (Livingstone, 2003, cited in Redden and Way, 2016). This study seeks to address this gap by focusing on the experiences of minority youth in Indonesia, particularly those who are considered minorities based on their ethnicity, gender, and religion. Through the application of virtual ethnography, this research aims to enhance understanding of the convergence of social media and the physical world, with a particular focus on concepts drawn from media and cultural studies.

Fabian Schlott | Algorithmic Mediation in the Digital Creative Economy

Traditional cultural economics research has primarily focused on the economic aspects of art markets and museums, neglecting the burgeoning platform economy’s impact on cultural consumption and dissemination. The rise of User-Generated Content platforms, which serve as intermediaries between numerous producers and users, introduces new dynamics in platform competition and consumer engagement through automated algorithms that streamline transaction costs. These platforms employ recommender, search, and ranking systems to cater to diverse user preferences, encouraging longer and more frequent interactions. However, the opaque nature of these algorithms raises concerns about potential biases and inequalities, as they are not subject to external audits or transparency.

Helena Baard | Afrikaans Film in Flux: Investigating the Deconstruction of Apartheid Ideology in Contemporary Afrikaans Films

How do contemporary Afrikaans films, rooted in biographical and historic source material, interrogate apartheid ideology to deconstruct the cultural hegemony of traditional Afrikaner culture and its reproduction within contemporary Afrikaner culture? I do a film analysis of six recent Afrikaans films made in South Africa, namely Vir die Voëls (2016), Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story (2018), Kanarie (2018), Moffie (2019) Poppie Nongena (2019), and Toorbos (2021). The history of South African cinema is closely tied to the country’s socio-political past. South Africa was an apartheid state from 1948 till 1994, which meant that it had legalised racial segregation.

Eirini Tsitse | Cultivating Cultural Innovation: Audience Engagement, Digital Dynamics, and Entrepreneurial Strategies

This PhD research investigates the transformative potential of audience engagement in the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSIs), focusing on the intersection of audience engagement, cultural entrepreneurship, and digitalization. Motivated by a research gap in understanding individual-level audience experiences in cultural sectors, the study aims to uncover how audience engagement influences the overall trajectory of CCSIs.

Vanessa Richter | Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence – Mapping (Social Media) Platforms’ Role in Shaping (Public) Tech Imaginaries

Artificial intelligence is considered a key technology today, although interpreted diversely and ambiguously. With the shift of AI products into everyday life, new fears of job loss and promises of easing work burdens are hatching, impacting large public investments into research and industry and are reflected in policy discourses and legislation. The imagination and future perception of what AI can and should become have led to different trajectories showcasing the importance of social and cultural discursive imagination in envisioning and determining trajectories of AI and its integration into society through such imaginaries.

Luuk Schröder | Re-sensing electronic waste through artistic practice, how can lived experience at e-waste recycling centers contribute to our media-ecological future?

This research project addresses the mediation processes that persistently hide the materiality of media technology. Media technologies contribute siginicantly to the current ecological crisis. Yet, ‘a pivotal feature of media technology’s is that their “materiality”, their material presence, and sensorial impact in the mediating process, tends to escape regular users’ (van den Oever and Fickers, 2023). As a result, the role that media technology plays in the current ecological crisis and the lived experiences of people working at the end of the production chain is often overlooked. If we want to grasp the human involvement and environmental harm that are consequences of the material that media equipment is made of, we must re-sensitize ourselves to the media technology we use so much

Semmy Claassen | Researching The Pros of Digital Bookish Platforms and How They Can Improve Reading Education in Dutch-Language Contexts

Semmy Claassen | Utrecht University As evidenced by the PISA 2022 Results, a third of Dutch 15-year-old students is at risk of leaving secondary school illiterate (OECD, 2023; Stichting Lezen, 2023). This points to the reading crisis among Dutch youth which manifests a decrease in reading (Waal, 2023). In the midst of this reading crisis, there is a fair share of adolescents who are (re)discovering and celebrating reading through TikTok’s literary subculture BookTok (Martens et al., 2022). I will further explore the mechanisms of digital literary platforms in Dutch-language contexts and their possible role in motivating reading among young people.

This interdisciplinary PhD project, combining media studies, literary studies, and educational sciences, consists of two main phases. The main research question is whether and if so, how, digital platforms and/or their subcultures with an emphasis on reading can enhance reading education in secondary schools to contribute towards combatting the reading crisis described above.

PhD Defence: Jeroen Boom (Radboud University Nijmegen)

6 March 2024 | 16.30hrs | Aula Radboud University Nijmegen Strangers Unseen explores images of refugees and migrants that are deliberately obscure, opaque, and illegible. It examines these images within a group of recent essay films that employ fractures and frustrations as expressive cinematic elements to engage with the different realities of displacement and statelessness.

Kate Saccone | “The Work of Cinema is Finished When the Show Begins”: Curating and Presenting Silent Cinema Today

My practice-led research project focuses on curating and presenting silent films (i.e., films made during cinema’s first two decades) within contemporary archival and museological contexts. What does curating silent films today entail? What are the constitutive elements of this practice?

Jiaxin Liu | Unlocking the Past: Bridging Art, History, and Young People’s Media Environment Through Multisensory Extended Reality (XR) Engagement

Museums and art galleries play a crucial role in enlightening the public and improving appreciation and comprehension of art and cultural heritage. In today’s increasingly competitive and hyper-mediated world, attracting and engaging young people is one of the most challenging issues museums face; young people are constantly bombarded with information and entertainment options, making it difficult for museums to compete for their attention, museums must find ways to make their collections and programs engaging and relevant for youth.

Sanghwa Lee | PlatforMuse: Korean musicians’ identity and working conditions within the dynamics of the platformization of music

This project offers the first global analysis of how platforms are shaping – and being shaped by – the creative practices and working experiences of Korean music artists.

It has been well established that the cultural industries (television, film, music, publishing, gaming etc.) require academic attention not only for their economic clout, but for the influence they exert on shaping our knowledge and experiences of the world we live in (Hesmondhalgh, 2019). The importance of these industries in ‘the production of social meaning’, also directs our attention to the creative workers and cultural producers who work in these industries.

Jim Kroezen | PlatforMuse

PlatforMuse aims to investigate how online platforms shape—and are being shaped by—the work of music artists. The project involves ethnographic fieldwork on the music industries of three countries: The Netherlands, South Korea, and Nigeria. Digital platforms have become a central part of contemporary capitalism and changed the way in which we produce and consume culture. However, we still do not know much about how platforms change the actual work conditions and creative practices of cultural producers.

Ilker Bahar | Digital transformation of body, identity and intimacy through social VR: The case of VRChat

Supported with gradually advancing AR and VR technologies, social VR platforms began to offer various opportunities for users to interact, communicate, and create with others in a shared digital space. Launched in 2014 and used by millions across the world today, VRChat platform is one such place where participants engage in practices such as role-playing, ASMR, and cross-gender avatar embodiment and form communities such as mirror dwellers, furries, and memers. Despite burgeoning research on the technological and economic aspects of virtual worlds and the parallel developments in blockchain, NFT, and immersive technologies, there is still a lack of scholarly research on the social and cultural dynamics of these digital ecosystems.

Mohammad Talebi | Dance-music communicology: interaction of dancers with musical rhythm for narrative embodiment in classical ballet variations

Classical ballet is a European technical dance theater genre using various dramaturgic elements such as libretto, music, and choreography to share a nonverbal narrative with the audience. Dancers integrate textual, aural, and visual components of the ballet using various corporeal articulations and expressive gestures to represent a new multimodal narrative from each element. Dancer-music communication for narrative visualization is embedded within a complex dynamic system that has received less attention.

Linda Kopitz | Artificial Amsterdam: Architectural Writing and the Urban (Re)imagination of Nature

In our current moment of ecological crisis, creating urban environments that are more green, more sustainable, more livable has become an urgent challenge. Encompassing strategies as diverse as the private greening of rooftops via technological ‘smart’ solutions to the municipally mandated use of renewable construction materials, sustainability is a practical concern, representational practice and discursive process. This PhD project proposes that the cross-mediality of ‘architectural writing’ – architecture as writing – plays a crucial role in the sustainable (re)imagination of urban life through the production of nature within the city.

PhD Defense: Gemma Newlands (University of Amsterdam)

22 June 2023 | 16:00hrs | Agnietenkapel As new occupations emerge in response to the growth of the digital economy, the relationship between digital technology and labour has resulted in significant changes in how work is evaluated. By critically examining the ways in which humans and artificial intelligence (AI) are co-evolving and the ways in which work is becoming more technical and less human(e), this dissertation provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of this rapidly changing landscape.

PhD Defense: Kun He (University of Groningen)

29 June 2023 | 14.30hrs | Academy building RUG Chinese populism exhibits unique features that distinguish it from populism observed in democratic settings. Notably, Chinese populism encompasses two distinct forms: communist populism and online bottom-up populism, each operating in its own distinct manner. Communist populism is propagated through the party-state system, mobilizing against perceived corrupt elites in the name of the majority Chinese people.

PhD Defense: Constanza Gajardo (VU University)

Friday 20 October 2023 at 13:45 hrs | VU University – Amsterdam From a traditional normative perspective, it is understood that if people do not consume news, democracy loses an informed foundation for an engaged citizenship (Christians et al., 2010; Schudson, 2008; McNair, 2009). Hence, the acquisition of factual information, primarily about politics and public affairs, is often considered what people need from journalism (McQuail, 2013). However, such normative formulations seem to primarily represent the viewpoint of journalists. The audience’s perspective has only been tangentially included in the normative framework of journalism, mainly based on predefined definitions of what it means for individuals to fulfil a citizen’s role (Moe, 2020).

Marc Prüst | The visual economy of the photographic industry

In the age of digital media, images are more important than ever, but the vast majority of image makers find it increasingly difficult to make a full time living from their work. We are in a moment of contradiction where, at the same time, the social value of visuals has increased while the economic value of photography has declined. However, the industry’s attitude to the production and distribution of photographic images seems to have changed little.

Jialing Song | Gendering Digital Cultural Production in Chinese Platform Economy

This project aims to fill in the gap of a specific gender focus in the process of Chinese platformization and contribute to understanding the formation of Chinese gendered subjects vis-à-vis digital cultural production, as well as in what ways they participate in, interact with, and navigate the system of the Chinese platform economy. 

Floor Mijland | Platformisation of Education: Edtech and Learning Ecosystems in Dutch Secondary Education

Many educational institutions build heavily on EdTech’s, EduApps, and Learning Management Systems in their daily practices. At the ‘back end’ of this incorporation of such platforms are usually private American big tech Google (Alphabet), Amazon and Microsoft (Kerssens and van Dijck, 2022; Williamson et al., 2022). The platforms and data-infrastructures provided by these companies are convenient, easy to access, and user friendly. Yet, they are built by profit driven companies from countries which do not (necessarily) share the public values of Dutch secondary education: they do not govern an accountable, responsible, and transparent use of technology.

Hannah Poon | Surviving in Abeyance: Digital Networks and Resistance in Hong Kong after the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

How to sustain a political movement when it is not allowed? How to survive in abeyance? Hong Kong’s 2019-20 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement, a full-scale democratic struggle against Chinese rule, was forced into abeyance under the National Security Law imposed in June 2020. Followed by hard-handed suppression, activist networks were forced to shift to other arenas less susceptible to the regime’s control: consumer marketplace, fan culture, and diasporic communities. These informal networks remain active in constructing political discourse and staging micro-resistance, which remaps the boundaries of politics and solidarity outside traditional institutions, protests, and civil society.

Qingling Zhang | The Sublime in Cosmic Horror Films

Cosmic horror derived from Romantic literature at the end of the 18th century and reached its climax in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. By hybridizing scientific outer space with ancient cultural material, Lovecraft’s cosmic horror emphasizes the vastness of time and space, and in turn, it expresses the insignificance and inadequacy of human beings.

Maciej Grzenkowicz | Tik-Tok, it’s time for the truth! The multimodal language of fact-checking on TikTok

In my project, I am analysing the fact-checking accounts on TikTok in order to understand the specifics of multimodal argumentation on the social media platform and the argumentative strategies used by the fact-checkers. Even though TikTok is one of the most downloaded applications in the world, there have been little efforts to fight mis- and disinformation, which are omnipresent in the platform.

Sarah Burkhardt | Socio-technical and feminist strategies of visibility: Rethinking and programming representation through mapping Dutch #MeToo formations

The project critically engages with the Dutch #MeToo debate by situating it within a longer history of attempts to render visible‚ the struggle to end sexist oppression‘ (hooks, 1984) across different online media. It maps involved actors and researches the role of different spaces, such as educational or governmental institutions, social media platforms, legacy news outlets.  As part thereof, the project creates access and knowledge about #MeToo-related debates through leveraging, building and critically reflecting TwiXL as a cross-media research infrastructure.

Maud Rebergen | Marginalising Machines: Digital Citizenship in the age of e-Governance

The growing role of digital technology in society has changed the notions of citizenship and inclusion. Governments worldwide are becoming increasingly digital and shift the responsibility to handle e-governance technologies towards citizens. Digital divide scholars express concern about these developments, as it becomes increasingly difficult for a significant part of society to participate. This is the case, even in societies that are digitally advanced. The Netherlands is an example of such a place where 97% of citizens have domestic internet access but where four out of 17 million citizens lack the basic digital literacy to participate in the digital society.

Nathalie Fridzema | Before WEB 2.0: A Cultural History of Early Web Practices in the Netherlands from 1994 until 2004

The objective of the PhD project is to create a cultural history of web practices before web 2.0, specifically in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2004. This period of the preliminary web – characterized by idealistic initiatives adhering to utopian ideals like participatory democracy, freedom, and accessibility – is often overshadowed by the swift development of platforms and social media.

Skinner Myers | Black Star: Race, Representation, & the need for Intransigence against the Despotism of Anti-Blackness over Black Hollywood Cinema

Black Star analyzes the “idea of blackness” in the world and how there are two separate paths “Black Cinema” can take: “that which ‘awakens’ the spectator by taking him along the path of progress, and that which ‘lulls him to sleep’ by making him sluggish and escape from reality by merely entertaining him.”[1] The dissertation posits that “Cinema”, which it designates as a “Colonizing Cinema”, has demanded, “Black Cinema” to perform with a minstrel mask and explicit blackface that grants a partial humanization of the “idea of blackness” in “Cinema.” This allows “Colonizing Cinema” to take possession of “Black Cinema” to make it palatable, which further concretizes its place as the “other” within “Cinema.”

Saskia Asser | The Spaarnestad Collection, a Resourceful Archive. A Study of the Relevance of Analogue Press Photo Archives in Digital Times for the History of Photojournalism

The central focus of my research is the Spaarnestad Collection in the National Archives of the Netherlands. The collection is a good example of a resourceful archive: an archive that is not so much a passive resource but reflects a social practice in its physical form and material coherence. The core is formed by the former photo library of De Spaarnestad, a major Dutch publisher of illustrated magazines in the 20th century.

Daniel Leix Palumbo | From Spoken Audio to Digital Identities: How AI impacts the interpretation of information communicated by the sound of voice

Today’s digitised media context is undergoing an oral/aural renaissance, where voice technology increasingly permeates much of contemporary life. In particular, tech companies and states are massively investing in voice biometrics, making such technology a multi-billion global industry and a new centre of digital innovation.

Participating Universities

• Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
• Leiden University (UL)
• Maastricht University (UM)
• Radboud University Nijmegen (RUN)
• University of Amsterdam (UvA)
• University of Groningen (RUG)
• Utrecht University (UU)
• VU University of Amsterdam (VU)

Useful links

• Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play
• Digital Methods Initiative
• Film & Television (UU)
• Film Studies Conferences Worldwide
• Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
• London Film and Media Conference
• Master Journalistiek (RUG)
• Master Mediastudies (UvA)
• Masters of Media Blog (UvA)
• Media, Art & Performance Studies (UU)
• New Media Studies (UU)
• Nikolai NL design Studio
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• WordPress Planet
• Education Archive
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