I’m pleased to announce the next edition of MeCCSA's newsletter, Three-D Issue 35, is now available.

Web version of newsletter: https://www.meccsa.org.uk/nl/three-d-issue-35/

Direct link to PDF file of newsletter (1.3Mb): http://j.mp/ThreeD-Issue35

In this issue:

1 ‘Slashing taxpayer subsidy’ (Einar Thorsen)

Review of Higher Education

2 Augar and after (John Downey)

3 The banker and the basket weaver (Janet Jones)

3 No more medals: the latest on the TEF (Abigail Gardner)

4 Free speech on campus (Alison Scott-Baumann & Simon Perfect)

Covid-19

6 A wake-up call, but who’s listening? (Simon Cottle)

7 Libertarians under lockdown (Julian Petley)

Black Lives Matter

9 Listening to legacies of coloniality (Kulraj Phullar)

Media Reform

11 Musical chairs: the phoney war over BBC governance (Tom Chivers)

12 “Distinctly Different”: GB News (Steven Barnett & Julian Petley)

14 It’s only a “conflict” between Facebook and regulators if it’s about the data (Declan McDowell-Naylor)

15 BBC and Beyond: Reimagining Public Media (Deborah Grayson)

Obituary

16 Jay G. Blumler (1924-2021) (Stephen Coleman)

Reports and Initiatives

17 Chair’s report (Einar Thorsen)

18 MeCCSA responses

21 Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network (Mita Lad)

21 Policy Network (Paul Reilly & Phil Ramsey)

22 Local and Community Media Network (Rachel Matthews)

23 Radio Studies Network (Emma Heywood)

23 Social Movements Network (Ruth Sanz Sabido)

24 Postgraduate Network (Sharon Zheng)

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.

If you would like to write for or advertise in the next edition of Three-D, please get in touch with me by the end of November 2020 at [log in to unmask]

We aim to produce two issues of Three-D per year. Electronic copies are sent free to all members of MeCCSA, but please forward this email to colleagues who might not be on the distribution lists.

All the best,

Einar

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