Dear all,
Following the success of the fifth MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
conference held at the University of Sussex in July 2008, we are
pleased to announce that a new issue of the e-journal Networking
Knowledge is now available online at the following address:
http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current
This issue includes a selection of 16 articles originally delivered at
the conference by postgraduate students from ten different academic
institutions, and covering a wide range of topics in the fields of
Media, Communication and Cultural studies.
Veronica Barassi --- Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of
Mediated Political Action
Linda Berkvens --- From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of
the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935
Jimmy Billingham --- Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation
Niall Brennan --- Representing National Culture, Values and Identity
in the Brazilian Television Mini-series
Marina Dekavalla --- Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections
after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns
Vincent M. Gaine --- 'We're on Flashdrive or CD-ROM': Disassembly and
Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral
Huili Hao --- The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema
Craig Haslop --- Wot Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation
in Audience Research
Rachael Kelly --- The Iconography of Mark Antony
Agnieszka Knaļ --- Read My Voice: Expressing Silence and Sound in Text-messages
Yvonne Lee --- The Medium is Global, The Content is not: Translating
Commercial Websites
Liezel C. Longboan --- Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces,
Re-constructing Identities
Paul O'Reilly --- 'I Will Survive': Forty Years of Amber Films and the
Evolution of Regional Film Policy
Kristin Skoog --- "Focus on the Housewife": the BBC and the Post-war
Woman, 1945-1955
Hai Tang --- Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political
Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs
Rachel Mizsei Ward --- Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players
and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle
very best wishes
Iain Smith
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Executive Committee
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
Editorial Board
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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