Calling all prospective university students! Want to know more about getting a degree in media studies? Check out our Student Information FAQs page here: www.meccsa.org.uk/resources/fa... #university #media #student

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.)

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.)

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.)

Award spotlight: This year’s winners for Monograph of the Year are Sarah Atkinson and Vicki Callahan! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester

Award spotlight: This year’s winner for Practice Research of the Year is Matt Parker! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester

Award spotlight: This year’s winner for Doctoral Research of the Year is Afraa Alyoussef! #MeCCSA2026 #MeCCSAConference2026 #MeCCSA2026UniofLeicester

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

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)

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.)

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.)

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

Thank you @meccsa.bsky.social and @deptmedialeic.bsky.social you’ve been amazing

Jared Ahmad discussing UK news media portrayals of far-right extremism #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social

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

Brigitte de Boef speaking about state crisis communication #meccsa2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social @meccsa.bsky.social

Dr Rong Fong presenting on the growth of Chinese representation of South East Asia #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...

Chloe Cheng presenting on the oldest Chinese community located in Liverpool and the films that capture their experiences #MECCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social

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

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

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

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 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/

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)