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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

consumption of local media. The section also offers the opportunity to increase collaboration between industry and academia and emerging innovators and disruptors in the field. You can find out more information and join the Local and Community Media Section’s mailing list here:

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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

to the challenges and affordances of the structural changes precipitated by digital technology. This process has had a profound impact on the financial basis, and sustainability, of local and community media and journalism platforms, but also on the cultures and practices of production and (cont.)

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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today we’re highlighting MeCCSA’s Local and Community Media Section. The aim of the section is to promote research into Local and Community Media in the UK. The contemporary landscape for local media, including journalism, is undergoing a period of unprecedented disruption and innovation due (cont.)

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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

dialogue and collaboration and creating opportunities to critically reflect upon our work, MeCCSA RAS seeks to consolidate and expand our academic and cultural status in the UK and beyond. You can find out more information and join the Radio and Audio Studies Section’s mailing list here:

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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

dialogues with other relevant sections. You can find out more information and join the Disability Studies Section’s mailing list here: www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/dis...

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MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

researchers and media practitioners working in Higher Education. The section will facilitate the sharing of information, develop and promote research and publication in the fields of media, film, music, communications and cultural studies in relation to disability, and will develop links and (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

(@tellynelly.bsky.social). Here is a recap of some of the memorable moments from the conference. We look forward to seeing you all at Newcastle University in September 2027, the conference theme will be based around ‘Past Lessons Future Prospects’. Watch this space for the call for papers; (cont.)

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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

gender, believability and audience in mediated representations about sexual harassment and assault (Melody House). Thank you to all who attended. We hope to see you in Newcastle next year. #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester

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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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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

and Reconceptualising “alternative media” in India (Namrata Acharya). We also had our second keynote that was unpacking empathy through AI use in Brazilian favelas. #AndreaMedrado See you again for the final day of the conference tomorrow! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester

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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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