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Research Institute for Media, Art and Design

Centre for International Media Analysis, Research and Consultancy

The study of media is multi-disciplinary drawing on such disciplines as literature, sociology, history, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. The Centre features a broad range of research interests that could be loosely grouped in three distinct but related areas:

  • World Cinema (German, Italian, British Black/African cinemas), independent film and video, psycho-analysis, science fiction, special effects). Research in this area helps to strengthen the teaching of the MA in International Cinema, established in 2001.
  • Media economics (broadcasting and the new media, multimedia, media distribution, new technologies, digitalisation, convergence, and globalisation, the history of publishing, the e-book and e-publishing). Research in this area contributes to the teaching of the MA in Media, Culture and Technology and the undergraduate programme. Research into alternative video distribution funded by the AHRB.
  • Image and Representation (gender, ethnicity, and class, national identities, adaption and television drama, news and journalism, popular fiction, representations of the city). Research in this area contributes to a wide range of modules in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Through the Centre, collaborative links have been established with the Cultural Industries and Practices Research Centre, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA and the Department of Visual Communications at the University of Split, Croatia, and is currently seeking to establish collaboration with research centres in Asia and Latin America.

Members of the Centre have recently contributed papers to international conferences around the world, including events in Jerusalem, Vancouver, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Singapore, New York, Boston, Budapest, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Amsterdam, Prague, Alberta, Trondheim, Mannheim, Dusseldorf, and Wageningen (Nederlands).

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