Conference & Media Workshop Ryerson U. Toronto – 10 Days Left for Submission
Would you like your academic research to influence ideas, people, and public policies? Do you want to learn and share on how you can harness the power of media to reach out? Are you interested in discussing multidisciplinary, ground-breaking, speculative, and controversial ideas in an open and safe environment? If you think that these questions apply to you, participate in the international conference Bridging Gaps: Media, Higher Education and Society. The conference will be held on May 27-28, 2015 at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. The details of the call are at:...
Read MoreCelebrity Culture and Social Inquiry – 7th Edition
On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) board, I am pleased to announce that the 7th edition of Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry has been published. Highlights include: Dr Louis Massey and Dr Basuli Deb join CMCS media experts Dr Deb’s upcoming book Come, Cross the Line: Celebrity Lifestyles and Public Intellectualism CMCS board member Dr Anita Krajnc on SUN News Network and City TV Submission guideline for international conference Bridging Gaps: Media, Higher Education and Society. You may now access the newsletter for printing or review here. If you would like to...
Read MoreAuthenticity in Kiera Knightley’s Nudity
The costs of style and style failure are evident in media. Yet both complement each other. The excess of nudity is an example. Is there authenticity in this irony? I felt the irony of style when I saw Kiera Knightley’s latest nude photograph. I asked myself if this is another case of nudity in which fashion fails and a celebrity needs to promote self through sensationalization of a nude body. Soon after Kiera Knightley stripped, Kim Kardarshian did a nude photo shoot for the cover of Paper Magazine. She broke many hearts as she intended to “break the Internet” with her fake self-inflated...
Read MoreScholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics (May 27, 2015) – Ryerson University
Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics This workshop will offer: guidance on professional skills and career opportunities both inside and outside academia; insights and resources for scholars to become critics and experts in media; and basic media and public relations training with a focus on how to answer questions from reporters. Key Speakers: Jennifer Polk is an academic and career coach for graduate students and PhDs. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 2012 and is now a blog writer for academic magazine University Affairs,...
Read MoreBridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society
Call for Papers In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and to understand social underpinnings of cultural productions. In a similar fashion, journalism can use investigation to educate and inform the public on the limits and potentials of social systems. Journalistic publications can...
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