** With apologies to those who have already received this via the main MeCCSA list **

Dear colleagues,

Please be advised that issue 17 of MeCCSA's newsletter, Three-D, is now available.

This edition is devoted to features and reports on the Higher Education White Paper and media reform.

Website version of newsletter, visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/newsletter/
Direct link to PDF file of newsletter (1.5Mb): http://j.mp/rsWAEh

In this issue:
1 HE White Paper and Media Reform (Einar Thorsen)

Features
2 KIS my Ass(essment): HE White paper (Natalie Fenton)
4 The new assault on media studies (Anonymous)
5 Inside out: turning consumers back into students (Milly Williamson)
6 Regulating the press: a role for media scholars (Stephen Coleman)
7 Hackgate and media reform
8 Teaching challenges and solutions (Debbie Flint)
9 Thinking with food: an ideas exchange (Julian Matthews)
10 Mediated politics: the ‘cultural turn’ in political communication research (Kay Richardson, Katy Parry)

Reports and initiatives
11 Chair’s report (Sue Thornham)
12 The HEA restructuring (John Mundy)
13 MeCCSA Annual Conference 2012 (Conference Organisers)
14 Policy Network (Máire Messenger Davies)
15 Radio Studies Network (Stephen Lax)
16 Practice Network (Joanna Callaghan)
18 Race Network (Sarita Malik)
19 Disability Studies Network (Alison Wilde)
20 Women’s Media Studies Network (Heather Nunn)
21 Postgraduate Network Annual Conference and 2011/2012 Committee (Shelley Thompson, Ruth Sanz Sabido)

Over the summer we completed work on the revamped version of the MeCCSA website. As part of this process, Three-D content will now be dual-published as news posts on the website, in addition to this PDF version. Crucially, we have enabled comments on news items to enable people to respond with greater immediacy directly on the site. Moderation is in place to avoid spamming, but we hope this will foster an additional space for creative and free-flowing dialogue around issues concerning the MeCCSA membership. Following the website relaunch, we have also refreshed the network pages of Three-D with the new logos and visual identities. We hope you enjoy these changes and as alway welcome your thoughts and suggestions.

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 end of January 2012 at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[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

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Einar Thorsen, PhD
Lecturer in Journalism and Communication

The Media School, Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK

E-mail: [log in to unmask]<applewebdata:[log in to unmask]>
Twitter: http://twitter.com/einarthorsen
Blog: http://multimediajournalism.info/

Phone: +44 (0)1202 968838

Convenor Journalism Research Group:
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/imcr/cjcr/

Programme Coordinator MA Journalism and New Media:
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/MAJNMF

Communication Officer of MeCCSA:
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/


 
 
This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person.
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.

-------------------------------------------------
MeCCSA Policy mailing list
W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html

Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.