Leicester Media & Communication
@deptmedialeic.bsky.social
Media & Communication, University of Leicester. One of the longest established academic centres specialising in media & communication research.
🎓 That’s a wrap on #MECCSA2026! A huge thank you to all our organisers, speakers, chairs and delegates for making this year’s conference such a stimulating and enjoyable event. @julianmatthews1.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social @einarthorsen.bsky.social Safe travels home! 👋
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
🎤 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
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
Matthew Brennan introducing his paper ‘The discursive construction of masculinities on talkSPORT’ #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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
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
Our final keynote of #MeCCSA2026 will be presented this afternoon by Professor Helen Wood, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Aston University. Prof Wood’s research interests are mainly in class, gender and the media, having published widely on reality television and popular culture. (1/5)
Final parallel session of #MeCCSA2026, covering 'Influencers, Creators and Digital Labour' (2.02), 'Gender, Sexualities and Representation' (2.03), 'Audiences and Political Engagement' (2.04), 'Media Power, Conflict and Disinformation' (2.06), 'Film, Television and Genre' (1.01), (1/2)
Dr Rong Fong presenting on the growth of Chinese representation of South East Asia #MECCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
Chloe Cheng presenting on the oldest Chinese community located in Liverpool and the films that capture their experiences #MECCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
#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...
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
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
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
Jinghe Han speaking about the soundscape of poetry recitation in contemporary China #meccsa @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social
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
Welcome to the final day of #MeCCSA2026. Today kicks off with parallel sessions on 'Creative Labour and Inequality' (2.02), 'Gender, Feminism and Representation' (2.03), 'Diaspora, Migration and Media' (2.04), 'Journalism, Media Systems and Futures' (2.06), (1/2)
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/
Very excited about the roundtable on PARATEXTS at 16.35 in Room 2.03: from 1980s Hungarian Film Posters to trailer editors and ARG creators, and to Swifties’ friendship bracelets from the Eras Tour, join us in this stimulating conversation about future prospects and challenges! #MeCCSA2026
A great story of AI use by marginalised communities in the Global South, by our second keynote speaker Dr Andrea Medrado. #Meccsa2026
Second keynote in full swing now delivered by Dr Andrea Medrado on whose empathy counts in debates about AI #Meccsa2026
Today’s #MeCCSA2026 keynote will be delivered by Dr Andrea Medrado, Associate Prof in Global Communications and Co-Director of Research for the Dept of Communications, Drama and Film at the University of Essex. Dr Medrado’s research focuses on the participation of marginalised communities, (1/10)
🎤 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
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)
In the Digital Identities, Selfhood and Disinformation session, Nathalie Weidhase presents the girlboss as mediated work-life subjectivity on social media at #MeCCSA2026
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
The Journalism Practices and New Directions session begins with a paper from Jen Birks on conciliatory journalism within the context of polarisation #MeCCSA2026
Sessions at #MeCCSA2026 now starting include 'AI, Technology and Politics' (2.02), 'Gender, Feminism and Representation 1' (2.03), 'Digital Identities, Selfhood and Disinformation' (2.04), 'Journalism Practices and New Directions' (2.06), (1/2)
