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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 16h
Today we’re highlighting MeCCSA’s Radio and Audio Studies Section. The aim of the section is to encourage sustained, lively and critical research and scholarship in the field of radio broadcasting and related areas such as podcasting, radio journalism, and audio production. By encouraging (cont.)
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today we’re highlighting MeCCSA’s Disability Studies Section. The aim of the section is to support and promote the development of the research and teaching of Disability Studies within Media Studies and to provide a space to support and promote the work of disabled academics, lecturers, (cont.)
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Award spotlight: This year’s winners for Monograph of the Year are Sarah Atkinson and Vicki Callahan! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Award spotlight: This year’s winner for Practice Research of the Year is Matt Parker! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Award spotlight: This year’s winner for Doctoral Research of the Year is Afraa Alyoussef! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Award spotlight: This year’s winners for Edited Collection of the Year are Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, and Andrea Medrado @andreamedrado.bsky.social! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today is MeCCSA PGN Conference day at the University of Reading! @uniofreading.bsky.social Some highlights for today include: Welcome (9:10-9:20) Keynote (9:20-9:50) Parallel Sessions Block 1 (10:20-11:50) MeCCSA PGN AGM (12:35-13:20) Parallel Sessions Block 2 (13:20-14:50)
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you to Julian Matthews (@julianmatthews1.bsky.social) and the University of Leicester team (@deptmedialeic.bsky.social) for hosting a great conference. Thank you to all our fascinating keynotes, Prof Anamik Saha, Dr Andrea Merdado (@andreamedrado.bsky.social), and Prof Helen Wood (cont.)
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What a great final day of MeCCSA 2026! Our final keynote was Professor Helen Wood, who gave us a recap of the ReCare TV project. Furthermore we saw papers from Minoritrian Psychogeographies: Liverpool and/Rethinking the Spatial Form of the British Chinese Cinema (Xiaoxin Cheng), to exploring (cont.)
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Final keynote for #meccsa2026 we welcome Prof Helen Wood back to Leicester, to talk about reality television, the bureaucratisation of care and the regime of 'Crisis Ordinariness'. @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🎤 In our “Gender, Sexualities and Representation” session, presenters Luyang Hu, Eva Cheuk Yin LI and Woori Han are now taking part in a live Q&A with attendees! #MECCSA2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
3rd paper in 'Gender, Sexualities and Representation' session, Woori Han presents a Korean study on 'Queer Mediated Mobility and Affective Counterpublics in Digital Space' #meccsa2026 #queer
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Matthew Brennan introducing his paper ‘The discursive construction of masculinities on talkSPORT’ #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
2nd paper in 'Gender, Sexualities&Representation' session, Eva Cheuk Yin Li presents 'Manufacturing Fantasy in Queer Television: Rethinking Queer Representation and the Queerbaiting Critique in Global South', with Ka-Wei Pang published in Media Culture&Society: doi.org/10.1177/0163... #meccsa2026
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Deborah Gay @dwgay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you @meccsa.bsky.social and @deptmedialeic.bsky.social you’ve been amazing
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jared Ahmad discussing UK news media portrayals of far-right extremism #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the session 'Gender, Sexualities and Representation', Luyang Hu presents 'Queer but Not (Only) Queer: Everyday Practices, Visibility, and the Embodied Reflexivity of East Asian Genderless Fashion', a study using instant film photography as a fieldwork method. #meccsa2026 #pride #queer
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brigitte de Boef speaking about state crisis communication #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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idilosman.bsky.social @idilosman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dr Rong Fong presenting on the growth of Chinese representation of South East Asia #MECCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#meccsa2026 Zhiling Guo and Pengyun Lu share new research on intimacy, e-commerce relations and cultural identity among grassroots deaf livestreamers on Kuaishou in China. Their earlier research on Douyin deaf creators’ self-presentation is published in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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idilosman.bsky.social @idilosman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Chloe Cheng presenting on the oldest Chinese community located in Liverpool and the films that capture their experiences #MECCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Street level bureaucrats? Tamsyn Dent shares her research on the cultural work of widening access and participation for UK creative higher education, in the 'Creative Labour and Inequality' session. #meccsa2026 #inequality
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anh Dinh-Hong introducing the presentation - ‘The use of AI in podcasting by independent podcasters in contemporary Vietnam ‘ #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jinghe Han speaking about the soundscape of poetry recitation in contemporary China #meccsa @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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idilosman.bsky.social @idilosman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Day 3 of #MECCSA2026 has kicked off and I’m delighted to chair the panel on Diaspora, Migration and the Media that includes some fascinating presentations
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
First presentation in 'Creative Labour and Inequality' session is by Channing Morsali on her research of working class women’s negotiations of economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital in UK Television Labour #meccsa2026 #inequality
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Welcome to day 3 of the MeCCSA 2026 conference! Some of the highlights for today include: Sessions 11 and 12: Parallel Paper Sessions (9:30-11:00, 11:25-12:55) Session 13: Keynote 3 (Lecture Theatre 2, 14:00-15:00) You can find the full schedule and abstracts here: meccsa2026.le.ac.uk/programme/
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another fantastic day in Leicester. Day two has seen papers on digital inequalities in northern Nigeria (Oyedoyin Oyerinde) to Leicester (Gianfranco Polizzi, Panayiota Tsatsou and Magdalena Brzeska); as well as presentations on Dutch LGBTQ+ radio programmes from the 1980s and 1990s (Stacey Copeland)
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A great story of AI use by marginalised communities in the Global South, by our second keynote speaker Dr Andrea Medrado. #Meccsa2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎤 In our “Digital Identities, Selfhood and Disinformation” session, presenters Ziyi Song, Jayson Harsin, Nathalie Weidhase and Wing-Fai Leung are now taking part in a live Q&A with attendees! #MECCSA2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In the Digital Identities, Selfhood and Disinformation session, Nathalie Weidhase presents the girlboss as mediated work-life subjectivity on social media at #MeCCSA2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Such a great night yesterday at the Old Horse for the MeCCSA Pub Quiz!! #MeCCSA2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In the Digital Identities, Selfhood and Disinformation session, Jayson Harsin speaks on Continuity and Change in Disinformation Persuasion discussing a “Zombie” Trump Quote Meme Across Platforms at #MeCCSA2026
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Journalism Practices and New Directions session begins with a paper from Jen Birks on conciliatory journalism within the context of polarisation #MeCCSA2026
A photo of Jen Birks delivering a paper at #MeCCSA2026 on conciliatory journalism
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sofia Cotrona speaking about ‘Grounding cultural democracy’ #meccsa @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yuval Katz introducing ‘ A cross institutional research network - ‘crimson ‘ #meccsa @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In the Digital Media, Policy and Governance session, Yağmur Çenberli is presenting about the political economy of independent digital news media in Türkiye. We also heard earlier on from Seamus Simpson on video games regulation in relation to European level oversight. #MeCCSA2026
A photo of Yağmur Çenberli presenting a paper on the political economy of independent news media in Türkiye
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Laura Mora discussing digital witnessing and expressing solidarity #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Welcome to day 2 of the MeCCSA 2026 conference! Some of the highlights for today include: Sessions 6 and 7: Parallel Paper Sessions (9:00-10:30, 10:55-12:25) Session 8: Keynote 2 (Lecture Theatre 2, 13:35-14:35) Session 9: AGM and Awards (14:40-16:10)
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to our runner up for Monograph of the Year Maria O’Brien for Tax Credits for Cultural Production in Europe: The Irish Example! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to our award winners for Edited Collection of the Year Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, and Andrea Medrado for Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What a brilliant first day of the MeCCSA 2026 annual conference. There were many engaging presentations throughout the day which we hope everyone found to be intellectually stimulating and enjoyable. See you again tomorrow! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Richard Jones ( with Steve Ward) presenting on Andy Burnham, local democracy and local media #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#MeCCSA2026 Join us at Reception from 18:10-19:10 in Room 0.02, then social event--pub quiz at Old Horse (LE2 1NE), starts at 19:30. @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a panel of 'Identity construction, negotiation&contestation', Dr Yimei Zhu talks about othering discourse on social media in the UK during a time of crisis, published in Information, Communication&Society doi.org/10.1080/1369... #meccsa2026 #mediastudies #diversity #multiculturalism #ethinicity
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Keiko Nagamine presents on analysing citizen journalism in Japan, as part of the digital activism and politics panel #meccsa2026
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jessica Wileman speaking on ’spaces of anti- migration activism’ #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In the 'Cultural Industries and Promotional Activities' session, Mazen Al Muhaimid has begun with a paper on brand positioning in relation to 'cultural language as a strategic resource', with a case study from Saudi Arabia about products relying on associations with the term 'tasbeera' #MeCCSA2026
A photo of Mazen Al Muhaimid presenting a paper on the subject of 'Cultural Language as a Strategic Resource'
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Leicester Media & Communication @deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We begin this afternoon session on Journalism Futures (2.04) by confronting the 'coming crisis for local democracy' with @deptmedialeic.bsky.social colleague Tor Clark, alongside Tim Neff and Joe Smith #MeCCSA2026
Image showing a slide with the text 'The coming crisis for local democracy', the title of a talk by Tor Clark. Tor Clark, Joe Smith, and Tim Neff are also pictured, who are the speakers for the Journalism Futures session.
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Julian Matthews @julianmatthews1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Robyn Muir discussing ‘girls using community and individualising resilience to navigate influencer culture‘ #meccsa2026 @meccsa.bsky.social @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
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