New issue of MeCCSA PGN Journal

Following the success of the fifth MeCCSA Postgraduate Network conference held at the University of Sussex in July 2008, we are pleased to announce that a new issue of the e-journal Networking Knowledge is now available online at the following address:

http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current

This issue includes a selection of 16 articles originally delivered at the conference by postgraduate students from ten different academic institutions, and covering a wide range of topics in the fields of Media, Communication and Cultural studies.


Veronica Barassi
Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of Mediated Political Action


Linda Berkvens
From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935


Jimmy Billingham
Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation


Niall Brennan
Representing National Culture, Values and Identity in the Brazilian Television Mini-series


Marina Dekavalla
Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns


Vincent M. Gaine
'We're on Flashdrive or CD-ROM': Disassembly and Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral


Huili Hao
The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema


Craig Haslop
Wot Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation in Audience Research


Rachael Kelly
The Iconography of Mark Antony


Agnieszka Knaś
Read My Voice: Expressing Silence and Sound in Text-messages


Yvonne Lee
The Medium is Global, The Content is not: Translating Commercial Websites


Liezel C. Longboan
Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities


Paul O'Reilly
'I Will Survive': Forty Years of Amber Films and the Evolution of Regional Film Policy


Kristin Skoog
"Focus on the Housewife": the BBC and the Post-war Woman, 1945-1955


Hai Tang
Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs


Rachel Mizsei Ward
Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle