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Dear colleagues, Hope you are enjoying the summer! I’m pleased to announce that issue 22 of MeCCSA's newsletter, Three-D, is now available. This edition includes a range of features and reports, including continued focus on media reform, tributes to Stuart Hall, the status of Media Studies, and review of the MeCCSA Annual Conference. Website version of newsletter, visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/newsletter/ Direct link to PDF file of newsletter (2.1Mb): http://j.mp/Three-D_Issue-22_v1 In this issue: 1 Some change, but battles far from over (Einar Thorsen) Media Reform 2 So they think it’s all over? (Julian Petley) 4 After the sentence (Bethany Usher) 5 Media plurality (Jonathan Hardy) 8 NSA/GCHQ, state power and surveillance (Lee Salter) Stuart Hall 10 MeCCSA and Stuart Hall (Peter Golding) 10 Britain’s most distinguished (Graham Murdock) 11 The Stuart Hall Building (Julian Henriques) 12 Remembering the chuckle (Garry Whannel) Media Studies 14 Media Studies: where are we now? (Sonia Livingstone) 16 What’s happening with Media and Film Studies GCSE and GCE ‘A’ level (Pete Fraser) MeCCSA Annual Conferences & Features 17 MeCCSA 2014: Media and the Margins (Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Shelley Thompson, Hugh Chignell) 21 MeCCSA 2015: Generations (Rosemary White, James Leggott) Reports and initiatives 23 Chair’s report (Tim O’Sullivan) 24 Impact of HE policy on work, practices and departmental constitution (Giannina Warren) 25 Independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment (Peter Golding) 26 Climate Change Network (Neil Gavin) 27 Practice Network (Michael Chanan) 29 Social Movements Network (Ruth Sanz Sabido) 31 Postgraduate Network (Toussaint Nothias, Christiaan de Beukelaer, Sam Ward) Three-D is the official newsletter of MeCCSA. Its aim is to provide news and comment of interest to the media, communication and cultural studies fields. Contributions do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association, or its Executive Committee. 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